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Welcome to obs4MIPs!
The information below supercedes a previous website.
Obs4MIPs is an effort to make observational data more accessible for climate model evaluation, development and research. It does so by providing observational products technically aligned with climate model data, specifically that made available from the World Climate Research Programme’s (WCRP) Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP). Many obs4MIPs products are made available via the Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF). A series of papers provide background material for the origins and advancement of obs4MIPs (Gleckler et al., 2011; Teixeira et al., 2014; Ferraro et al., 2015; Waliser et al., 2020).
Version controlled obs4MIPs compliant datasets provide the foundation for the effort. Some of these products are made available via ESGF, with version control and other registered content managed on a separate Github repository.
Discussions are underway to revamp obs4MIPs with a priority to make products more readily available. If you would like to be involved please contact us and let us know (obs4MIPs-admin@llnl.gov).
Contacts
Send email to obs4MIPs team: obs4MIPs-admin@llnl.gov, or Peter Gleckler (PCMDI, gleckler1@llnl.gov) general info, Simon Pinnock (ESA, Simon.Pinnock@esa.int) ESA related info, Greg Elsaesser (NASA GISS, gregory.s.elsaesser@nasa.gov) NASA related info, Nico Caltabiano (WCRP, avazcaltabiano@wmo.int), Paul Durack (PCMDI, durack1@llnl.gov) for ESGF info.
References
Ferraro, R., D. Waliser, P. Gleckler, K. Taylor, and V. Eyring, 2015: Evolving obs4MIPs to Support Phase 6 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6). Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 96:8 ES131-ES133, doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00216.1
Gleckler, P., R. Ferraro, and D. Waliser, 2011: Improving use of satellite data in evaluating climate models, Eos Trans. AGU, 92(20), doi.org/10.1029/2011EO200005
Teixeira, J., D. Waliser, R. Ferraro, P. Gleckler, T. Lee and G. Potter, 2014: Satellite Observations for CMIP5: The Genesis of Obs4MIPs. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 95, 1329–1334, doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00204.1
Waliser, D., Gleckler, P., Ferraro, R., Taylor, K., Ames, S., Biard, J. Bosilovich, M., Brown, O., Chepfer, H., Cinquini, L., Durack, P., Eyring, V., Mathieu, P., Lee, T., Pinnock, S., Potter, G., Rixen, M., Saunders, R., Schulz, J., Tuma, M. (2020). Observations for Model Intercomparison Project (Obs4MIPs): status for CMIP6. Geosc. Mod. Dev. 13. 2945-2958, doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-2945-2020