[Go-essp-tech] Feedback from an ESA meeting

[martin.juckes at stfc.ac.uk]

Hello,

I've just come back from a meeting organised by the ESA Climate Change Initiative, a programme of 14 collaborative projects creating a with range of climate data records -- targeted at the AR6 time frame. We are trying to encourage them in the NetCDF CF file format and ESGF federated archive direction.

Comments on the ESGF CMIP5 archive were "the Rolls-Royce of archive systems", its "fantastic" that we have got globally distributed data accessible through a single catalog, and a Hadley Centre scientist described access to data as "brilliant". The scientist in question was using scripts written by Jamie which hide a lot of the inconsistencies in the archive, but it shows that the effort put into enabling scripted access is working.

Keep up the good work -- we are impressing people on the outside,

cheers,
Martin
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