Understanding architectural tradeoffs necessary to increase climate model intercomparison efficiency
Chris A. Mattmann, Amy Braverman, Daniel J. Crichton · ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes · 2010
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in partnership with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has been leading an effort to allow remote sensing data available from NASA satellites to be easily compared with climate model outputs available from the DOE-funded Earth System Grid, a national asset in climate science. This partnership is timely with the looming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s 5th Assement Report (AR5) in active discussion, and the metrics to better understand Earth's climate under formulation. JPL's project, titled the Climate Data eXchange (CDX) provides an easy-to-use software framework for cimate scientists to rapidliy integrate and evaluate the efficacy of observational data as applied to climate models.