[Go-essp-tech] discrepancies among gateways

[Shreyas Cholia]

Hi Karl

We will look into the NERSC discrepency on Monday.

-Shreyas

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Karl Taylor <taylor13 at llnl.gov> wrote:

> **
> Dear all,
>
> I noticed that as of 15:30 PDT on 7/22/11 that different ESG gateways are
> serving different amounts of CMIP5 data:
>
> gateway           # of  CMIP5 datasets available
> ----------            -----------------------------------
> PCMDI                 6973
> BADC                   6973
> DKRZ                   6973
> NCI                       6974  (why 1 more than the above????)
> JPL                        6457  (missing CSIRO-MK3-3 model)
> NCAR                   6457  (missing CSIRO-MK3-3 model)
> NERSC                 6458  (missing CSIRO-MK3-3 model)
> ORNL                         0
>
> I noticed several other problems:
>
> 1.  NERSC gateway:  the search categories are not correctly populated.
>
> 2.  NCI gateway:  If you click on CMIP5 in search category "project" you
> get an error message instead of a list of datasets.
> Error: Failed to convert property value of type [java.lang.String] to
> required type [int] for property limit; nested exception is
> java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: ""
> If you then click on CSIRO-Mk3-6-0 in the "model" category, you get 516
> datasets returned, which is proper behavior.  Curiously, if you then click
> on "any model" you get the complete CMIP5 list of datasets, as you should
> have when you previously got the error message.
>
> 3.  NCAR gateway:  CMIP5/IPCC AR5 appears as one of the "projects" (along
> with "cmip5").  This is confusing.  We want users seeking CMIP5 data to go
> to cmip5 and not get distracted by CMIP5/IPCC AR5.  Please remove project
> CMIP5/IPCC AR5.
>
> 4.  There are inconsistencies among the gateways in rendering the list of
> models that appear under the "model" search category.  A common problem is
> that the word "model" appears before some of the model names on some of the
> gateways (but not others).  Also there are other minor differences (e.g.,
> lower case in the place of uppercase acronyms).  We want users to get used
> to the "official" CMIP5 names, which they should use in publications.  These
> official names can differ slightly from the names that appear in the
> filenames.  The official model name is supposed to have been recorded in
> each file as a global attribute called "model_id".  From information sent to
> me my the groups, following official model names should appear in the search
> list (or if this is not possible, the name of the model as recorded in each
> filename should be used (sorry that sometimes more than 1 model appears in a
> table cell):
>
> Official model_id             model name appearing in filename
> ---------------------
> ------------------------------------------
>    ACCESS ACCESS  BCC-CSM1.1 bcc-csm1-1  BNU-ESM BNU-ESM  CanESM2, CanCM4,
> CanAM4 CanESM2, CanCM4, CanAM4  CCSM4 CCSM4  CCSM4(RSMAS) CCSM4-RSMAS
> CESM1(BGC) CESM1-BGC  CESM1(CAM5) CESM1-CAM5  CESM1(CHEM,CAM5)
> CESM1-CHEM-CAM5  CESM1(CHEM) CESM1-CHEM  CESM1(WACCM) CESM1-WACCM
> CMCC-CESM CMCC-CESM  CMCC-CM CMCC-CM  CMCC-CMS CMCC-CMS  CNRM-CM5 CNRM-CM5
> CSIRO-Mk3.6 CSIRO-Mk3-6  EC-EARTH EC-EARTH  FGOALS-G2.0 FGOALS-G2
> FGOALS-gl FGOALS-gl  FGOALS-S2.0 FGOALS-S2  FIO-ESM FIO-ESM  GEOS-5 GEOS-5
> GFDL-CM2.1 GFDL-CM2P1  GFDL-CM3 GFDL-CM3  GFDL-ESM2G GFDL-ESM2G
> GFDL-ESM2M GFDL-ESM2M  GFDL-HIRAM-C180 GFDL-HIRAM-C180  GFDL-HIRAM-C360
> GFDL-HIRAM-C360  GISS-E2-H GISS-E2-H  GISS-E2-H-CC GISS-E2-H-CC  GISS-E2-R
> GISS-E2-R  GISS-E2-R-CC GISS-E2-R-CC  GISS-E2CS-H GISS-E2CS-H  GISS-E2CS-R
> GISS-E2CS-R  HadCM3 HadCM3  HadCM3Q HadCM3Q  HadGEM2-AO, HadGEM2-A
>  HadGEM2-AO, HadGEM2-A
>   HadGEM2-CC HadGEM2-CC  HadGEM2-ES HadGEM2-ES  HiGEM1.2 HiGEM1-2  INM-CM4
> inmcm4  IPSL-CM5A-LR IPSL-CM5A-LR  IPSL-CM5A-MR IPSL-CM5A-MR  IPSL-CM5B
> IPSL-CM5B  MIROC-ESM MIROC-ESM  MIROC-ESM-CHEM MIROC-ESM-CHEM  MIROC4h
> MIROC4h  MIROC4m MIROC4m  MIROC5 MIROC5  MPI-ESM-HR MPI-ESM-HR  MPI-ESM-LR
> MPI-ESM-LR  MPI-ESM-MR MPI-ESM-MR  MRI-AGCM3.2H MRI-AGCM3.2H  MRI-AGCM3.2S
> MRI-AGCM3-2S  MRI-CGCM3 MRI-CGCM3  MRI-ESM1 MRI-ESM1  NorESM-M, NorESM-ME,
> NorESM1-L NorESM-M, NorESM-ME, NorESM1-L
> I have not confirmed that model_id is necessarily consistent with the names
> in the first column, nor that the filenames are consistent with the 2nd
> column.  If there are inconsistencies, I would like to hear about them.
>
> Because of the problems above (other than 4), the CMIP5 website now
> (temporarily) directs researchers to only the PCMDI, BADC, and DKRZ
> gateways.  Only at these sites is both the search engine working o.k. and
> all the output from CMIP5 can be seen.  We don't want to direct users to
> sites where they will encounter problems or be unable to see some of the
> CMIP5 output.
>
> Best regards,
> Karl
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