ESMValTool User’s and Developer’s Guide
A detailed ESMValTool User’s and Developer’s Guide is available in the ESMValTool GitHub repository at https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValTool and on Read The Docs at http://esmvaltool.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.
Projects funding the ESMValTool Development
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) CMIP6-DICAD project
- Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) "Metrics and Access to Global Indices for Climate Projections (C3S-MAGIC)" projects
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft "TRR181 – Energy transfers in Atmosphere and Ocean" project
- DLR "Earth System Model Evaluation (ESMVal)" project until 2015
- DLR "Klimarelevanz von atmosphärischen Spurengasen, Aerosolen und Wolken: Auf dem Weg zu EarthCARE und MERLIN (KliSAW)" project
- ESA Climate Change Initiative Climate Model User Group (ESA CCI CMUG)
- EU Horizon 2020 project "Advanced Prediction in Polar regions and beyond: Modelling, observing system design and LInkages associated with a Changing Arctic climate (APPLICATE)"
- EU Horizon 2020 project "Coordinated Research in Earth Systems and Climate: Experiments, kNowledge, Dissemination and Outreach (CRESCENDO)"
- EU FP7 project "Earth system Model Bias Reduction and assessing Abrupt Climate change (EMBRACE)" until 2016
- EU Horizon 2020 "PRocess-based climate sIMulation: AdVances in high-resolution modelling and European climate Risk Assessment (PRIMAVERA)"
- Helmholtz Society project "Advanced Earth System Model Evaluation for CMIP (EVal4CMIP)"
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Contact
Please contact Prof. Veronika Eyring (veronika.eyring"at"dlr.de) and Dr. Axel Lauer (axel.lauer"at"dlr.de) if you want join the Software Development Team or if you have any questions on the Software.