Metafor: Common metadata for climate modelling digital repositories

A poster about common metadata for climate modelling repositories. More people than ever now have a need to discover the results of climate models in order to prepare for and mitigate against the potentially severe impacts of global climate change. But climate modelling is a complex process, which requires accurate and complete metadata (data describing data) in order to identify, assess and use the climate data stored in digital repositories. Simulations have a key role in constructing understanding and producing predictions in climate science. But it can be difficult to discriminate between two simulations, even when you were responsible for producing them! Existing documentation currently revolves around (at best) the runtime, but not the scientific detail and relevance of the model components. There is little or no documentation of the "simulation context" (the whys and wherefores and issues associated with any particular simulation).Previously curated at: http://cedadocs.ceda.ac.uk/1162/ The publish date on this item was its original published date. This work was funded by: European Comission; and, METAFOR is funded by the EU 7th Framework Programme as an e-infrastructure (project # 211753). Main files in this record: ECRI2010_Metafor_Edit.ppt Item originally deposited with Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) document repository by Dr Charlotte L Pascoe. Transferred to CEDA document repository community on Zenodo on 2022-11-2