Title: Evolving Obs4MIPs to Support Phase 6 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6)

Abstract

Over the past four years, an initiative known as Observations for Model Intercomparison Projects (Obs4MIPs) has successfully completed its pilot phase by adopting a set of technical protocols (dataset format, metadata standards, and documentation requirements) for dataset contributions, producing datasets that conform to these standards and archiving them for distribution on the Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) alongside the fifth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) model output. This pilot phase of Obs4MIPs, initiated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, supported CMIP5 and provided a path to improve the coordination between observational communities and major climate modeling intercomparison projects such as CMIP. Obs4MIPs is now being embraced by the international community, with the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Data Advisory Council (WDAC) empaneling a task team to provide guidance and governance for Obs4MIPs at an international level, in conjunction with the existing NASA Science Working Group that is more tightly focused on NASA satellite data products. Here, following the example of the first DOE–NASA Obs4MIPs meeting, and with an initial design of CMIP6more » being published, a meeting of over 50 experts in both climate modeling and satellite data from the United States, Europe, Japan, and Australia convened at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., for the purpose of planning the evolution of Obs4MIPs and its connection to the CMIP6 experiments.« less

Authors:

Ferraro, Robert D. ^[1]; Waliser, Duane E. ^[1]; Gleckler, Peter ^[2]; Taylor, Karl E. ^[2]; Eyring, Veronika ^[3]

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1. California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Jet Propulsion Lab. (JPL)
2. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
3. Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen (Germany)

Publication Date:

Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 EDT 2015

Research Org.:

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:

USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Science (SC)

OSTI Identifier:

1729748

Report Number(s):

LLNL-JRNL-667237
Journal ID: ISSN 0003-0007; 788853

Grant/Contract Number:  

AC52-07NA27344

Resource Type:

Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Additional Journal Information:

Journal Volume: 96; Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 0003-0007

Publisher:

American Meteorological Society

Country of Publication:

United States

Language:

English

Subject:

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES