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

[Don Middleton]

Thanks for the report out, Martin, and that's very nice news to hear!

don

On Oct 14, 2011, at 9:33 AM, <martin.juckes at stfc.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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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