Hands-on for the ESMValTool Workshop

Prerequisites

  1. Basic knowledge of Linux environment: Bash Shell
  2. Text Editor: Vim or Nano
  3. Basic knowledge of ESM data (NetCDF)
  4. Programming Language:
    • Python (some basics)
    • NCL (optional)
    • R (optional)

Schedule

90 min Explore the CMIP data and ESMVALTool What is the strcutures of the CMIP datasets?
How to add additional CMIP model datasets?
How to add a new data path of my own?
How to invoke and run the ESMValTool?
What is the structure of output files?
180 min Run the standard ESMValTool recipes on NIRD
150 min Write a simple recipe and diagnostic script
180 min More on writing diagnostic scripts