Exploiting Satellite Observations for climate model analysis (ESO4Clima)

Combining climate models with Earth observations provides an important technique to project climate change under different future scenarios and in turn inform global climate policy. To assess the robustness of the climate projections from these increasingly complex models, innovative and comprehensive software tools such as ESMValTool are needed. The core ambition of ESO4clima project is to enhance ESMValTool in time for the next phase of the international coupled model intercomparison project CMIP7, which will feed into the upcoming climate assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR7). The project's targeted enhancements will increase the informativeness and efficiency of rigorous climate model evaluation and analysis using observational data by enabling fuller exploitation of satellite datasets such as ESA's Climate Change Initiative.