and its application to CMIP5 data

Abstract. The preservation of data in a high state of qual-ity which is suitable for interdisciplinary use is one of the most pressing and challenging current issues in long-term archiving. For high volume data such as climate model data, the data and data replica are no longer stored centrally but distributed over several local data repositories, e.g. the data of the Climate Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5). The most important part of the data is to be archived, assigned a DOI, and published according to the World Data Center for Climate’s (WDCC) application of the DataCite regulations. The integrated part of WDCC’s data publication process, the data quality assessment, was adapted to the requirements of a federated data infrastructure. A con-cept of a distributed and federated quality assessment pro-cedure was developed, in which the workload and respon-sibility for quality control is shared between the three pri