[Go-essp-tech] Feedback from an ESA meeting
Williams, Dean N.
williams13 at llnl.gov
Fri Oct 14 10:25:52 MDT 2011
Hi Martin,
Positive news are always welcomed by the team... ;-)
Thanks,
Dean
On 10/14/11 8:33 AM, "martin.juckes at stfc.ac.uk" <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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