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ENSEMBLES forecasts: ocean and atmosphere

THREDDS (OPeNDAP) public server at ECMWFhttp://ensembles.ecmwf.int/thredds/catalog.html

Ocean analyses

Ocean variables available

CHFP data dissemination• Based on the ENSEMBLES server

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THREDDS server at CIMAhttp://chfp.cima.fcen.uba.ar/index.html

CHFP data dissemination• Other servers: CIMA and APCC + CCCma and CAWCR.

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• Several data servers, no unified view.• Archive management: informal protocol, some

internal standards, unclear level of service.• Scarce metadata of each experiment.• Incomplete list of standard names (CF).• Suboptimal data transfer and no check-summing.• Data discovery inexistent.• No visualisation tools.

CHFP data dissemination: now

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• Access to distributed data (grid) and processing resources as developed by ESGF.

• Archive management: universal protocols, standards, service, information sharing, as promoted by GO-ESSP.

• Common Information Model (CIM), which Metafor has developed and already includes s2d experiments.

• Full list of standard names (CF, CMOR2).• Optimized data transfer, check-summing, data discovery

as in ESGF.• Data access: opendap, wget, gridftp.• Visualisation, better data manipulation and subsetting.• How much of the CMIP5 effort should be adapted to CHFP?

CHFP data dissemination: improvements

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ENV.2010.1.1.4.1. Underpinning work to enable provision of local scale climate information (annual to decadal timescales)In the context of emerging measured impacts of climate change the demand for climate

services is growing. However, the supply of relevant climate information and

forecasts at the appropriate spatial and time scale does not currently match with

requirements needed on the demand side, notably for the implementation of adaptation

measures. Bridging the gap between demand and supply in this field requires better

data, improved models based on innovative methodologies and techniques and further

studies at global, regional and local level. Research in this area should (1)

contribute to the identification of the relevant climate services (from observations

and model projections) (2) advance the science underpinning the delivery of climate

information and (3) identify, for selected regions known for their climate

vulnerability, the spatial and time scales for which climate information serving

operational adaptation activities could be provided.

UE call to develop climate services

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CLIM-RUN and ECLISE• Two projects funded: CLIM-RUN (Mediterranean, 17

partners) and ECLISE (Northern Europe, 11 partners), expected period 2011-2014, focus over Europe.