Research

Speaker: Dr. Forrest M. Hoffman, Oak Ridge National Lab

The Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) is an international consortium that develops, deploys, and maintains software infrastructure and the operational global peer-to-peer network of enterprise data systems that employ the software for the management, dissemination, and analysis of Earth system model output and related forcing, reanalysis, downscaled, and observational data. Primarily supporting the Working Group on Coupled Modelling’s Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP), ESGF infrastructure catalogs, stores and delivers Earth system and climate model output to the scientific community for research and analyses that commonly contribute to assessments produced by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The ESGF consortium is modernizing the software architecture for improved performance and resilience, and will incrementally deploy new software tools and capabilities on expanding storage and analysis infrastructure to support research community needs for CMIP7 and beyond. An overview of the US Department of Energy (DOE)-funded ESGF2-US Project will be presented, and related DOE open data activities will be described.