ACCESS-NRI maintenance of ESMValTool for the Australian Community.
The Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) is a tool developed for evaluation of Earth System Models in CMIP (Climate Model Intercomparison Projects). It allows for routine comparison of single or multiple models, either against predecessor versions or against observations. ESMValTool is a community-developed climate model diagnostics and evaluation software package, driven both by computational performance and scientific accuracy and reproducibility. It is open to both users and developers, encouraging open exchange of diagnostic source code and evaluation results from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project CMIP ensemble.
ACCESS-NRI is releasing an NCI configuration of ESMValTool under the name ESMValTool-workflow.
ESMValTool-workflow is the ACCESS-NRI software and data infrastructure that enables the ESMValTool evaluation framework on NCI Gadi. It includes the ESMValTool/ESMValCore Python packages, the ESMValTool collection of recipes and diagnostics and some observational datasets. ESMValTool-workflow is configured to use the existing NCI supported CMIP data collections.
ESMValTool is provided through the xp65 project on Gadi.
To enable the ESMValTool-workflow, you need to be a member of the xp65 NCI projects:
Depending on your needs, you may want to also joined the following supported data collections:
- CMIP6:
fs38,oi10 - CMIP5:
rr3,al33 - ERA5 and ERA5-Land:
rt52,zz93 - obs4MIPs:
qv56
To load the the esmvaltool module, execute the following commands:
module use /g/data/xp65/public/modules
module load esmvaltool
ESMValTool is pre-configured to access CMIP and observation datasets available on Gadi.
By default, ESMValTool looks for the config_user.yml file in the home directory, inside the .esmvaltool folder.
You can get a copy by running:
esmvaltool config get_config_user --path=dest
To list which ESMValTool recipes are available on Gadi, run:
esmvaltool recipes list
To find out details of a specific recipe_name.yml, execute:
esmvaltool recipes show recipe_name.yml
To retrieve a recipe (and modify it), execute:
esmvaltool recipes get recipe_name.yml
To execute recipe_name.yml and automatically download the required climate data to the default directory, run:
esmvaltool run examples/recipe_python.yml --search_esgf=when_missing
The --search_esgf=when_missing option tells ESMValTool to search for and download the necessary climate data files from Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF), if they cannot be found locally.
| Name | status |
|---|---|
| recipe_validation |  |
| recipe_autoassess_landsurface_surfrad |  |
| recipe_ocean_quadmap |  |
| recipe_radiation_budget |  |
| recipe_quantilebias |  |
| recipe_clouds_ipcc |  |
| recipe_bock20jgr_fig_8-10 |  |
You can request access to the ACCESS-NRI collection. Data is stored in /g/data/ct11 on GADI.
We welcome contributions and feedback through the ACCESS-Hive forum. You can also request help through support.
| long_name | datasets | name | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Total Alkalinity | GLODAP, OceanSODA-ETHZ | talk |
| 1 | Surface pH | OceanSODA-ETHZ | phos |
| 2 | Surface Downward Mass Flux of Carbon as CO2 [kgC m-2 s-1] | GCP2018, GCP2020, Landschuetzer2016, OceanSODA-ETHZ | fgco2 |
| 3 | Total Column Ozone | ESACCI-OZONE | toz |
| 4 | TOA Outgoing Longwave Radiation | CERES-EBAF, ESACCI-CLOUD, ISCCP-FH, JRA-25, JRA-55, NCEP-NCAR-R1, NOAA-CIRES-20CR | rlut |
| 5 | Surface Dissolved Inorganic Carbon Concentration | OceanSODA-ETHZ | dissicos |
| 6 | Surface Upwelling Shortwave Radiation | CERES-EBAF, ESACCI-CLOUD, ISCCP-FH | rsus |
| 7 | Primary Organic Carbon Production by All Types of Phytoplankton | Eppley-VGPM-MODIS | intpp |
| 8 | Grid-Cell Area for Ocean Variables | OceanSODA-ETHZ | areacello |
| 9 | Air Temperature | AIRS, AIRS-2-1, BerkeleyEarth, CFSR, CRU, CowtanWay, E-OBS, GHCN-CAMS, GISTEMP, GLODAP, HadCRUT3, HadCRUT4, HadCRUT5, ISCCP-FH, Kadow2020, NCEP-DOE-R2, NCEP-NCAR-R1, NOAAGlobalTemp, OceanSODA-ETHZ, PHC, WFDE5, WOA | ta |
| 10 | Convective Cloud Area Percentage | CALIOP, CALIPSO-GOCCP | clc |
| 11 | Near-Surface Air Temperature | BerkeleyEarth, CFSR, CRU, CowtanWay, E-OBS, GHCN-CAMS, GISTEMP, HadCRUT3, HadCRUT4, HadCRUT5, ISCCP-FH, Kadow2020, NCEP-NCAR-R1, NOAAGlobalTemp, WFDE5 | tas |
| 12 | Specific Humidity | AIRS, AIRS-2-1, HALOE, JRA-25, NCEP-NCAR-R1, NOAA-CIRES-20CR | hus |
| 13 | Daily Maximum Near-Surface Air Temperature | E-OBS, NCEP-NCAR-R1 | tasmax |
| 14 | Percentage of the Grid Cell Occupied by Land (Including Lakes) | BerkeleyEarth | sftlf |
| 15 | Total Cloud Cover Percentage | CALIOP, CloudSat, ESACCI-CLOUD, ISCCP, JRA-25, JRA-55, MODIS, MODIS-1-0, NCEP-DOE-R2, NCEP-NCAR-R1, NOAA-CIRES-20CR, PATMOS-x | clt |
| 16 | Sea Surface Salinity | ESACCI-SEA-SURFACE-SALINITY, WOA | sos |
| 17 | Surface Downwelling Longwave Radiation | CERES-EBAF, ISCCP-FH, JRA-55 | rlds |
| 18 | Mole Fraction of CH4 | ESACCI-GHG, TCOM-CH4 | ch4 |
| 19 | Liquid Water Path | ESACCI-CLOUD, MODIS | lwp |
| 20 | Atmosphere CO2 | CT2019, ESRL, Scripps-CO2-KUM | co2s |
| 21 | Surface Downwelling Shortwave Radiation | CERES-EBAF, ISCCP-FH | rsds |
| 22 | Ambient Aerosol Absorption Optical Thickness at 550nm | ESACCI-AEROSOL | abs550aer |
| 23 | Northward Near-Surface Wind | CFSR | vas |
| 24 | Near-Surface Relative Humidity | NCEP-NCAR-R1 | hurs |
| 25 | Sea Surface Temperature | ATSR, HadISST, WOA | tos |
| 26 | Sea Water Potential Temperature | PHC, WOA | thetao |
| 27 | Ambient Aerosol Optical Thickness at 550nm | ESACCI-AEROSOL, MODIS | od550aer |
| 28 | Ambient Aerosol Optical Depth at 870nm | ESACCI-AEROSOL | od870aer |
| 29 | Northward Wind | CFSR, NCEP-NCAR-R1 | va |
| 30 | Sea Water Salinity | CALIPSO-GOCCP, ESACCI-LANDCOVER, ESACCI-SEA-SURFACE-SALINITY, PHC, WOA | so |
| 31 | Tree Cover Percentage | ESACCI-LANDCOVER | treeFrac |
| 32 | Ice Water Path | ESACCI-CLOUD | clivi |
| 33 | Precipitation | CRU, E-OBS, ESACCI-OZONE, GHCN, GPCC, GPCP-SG, ISCCP-FH, JRA-25, JRA-55, NCEP-DOE-R2, NCEP-NCAR-R1, NOAA-CIRES-20CR, PERSIANN-CDR, REGEN, SSMI, SSMI-MERIS, TRMM-L3, WFDE5 | pr |
| 34 | Surface Downwelling Clear-Sky Longwave Radiation | CERES-EBAF, JRA-55 | rldscs |
| 35 | Surface Downwelling Clear-Sky Shortwave Radiation | CERES-EBAF | rsdscs |
| 36 | Delta CO2 Partial Pressure | Landschuetzer2016 | dpco2 |
| 37 | TOA Outgoing Clear-Sky Shortwave Radiation | CERES-EBAF, ESACCI-CLOUD, ISCCP-FH, JRA-25, JRA-55, NCEP-NCAR-R1 | rsutcs |
| 38 | Sea Level Pressure | E-OBS, JRA-55, NCEP-NCAR-R1 | psl |
| 39 | CALIPSO Percentage Cloud Cover | CALIPSO-GOCCP | clcalipso |
| 40 | Surface Aqueous Partial Pressure of CO2 | Landschuetzer2016, Landschuetzer2020, OceanSODA-ETHZ | spco2 |
| 41 | Surface Upwelling Clear-Sky Shortwave Radiation | CERES-EBAF, ESACCI-CLOUD | rsuscs |
| 42 | Dissolved Inorganic Carbon Concentration | GLODAP, MOBO-DIC_MPIM, OceanSODA-ETHZ | dissic |
| 43 | Mole Fraction of N2O | TCOM-N2O | n2o |
| 44 | Percentage Cloud Cover | CALIOP, CALIPSO-GOCCP, CloudSat, ESACCI-CLOUD, ISCCP, JRA-25, JRA-55, MODIS, MODIS-1-0, NCEP-DOE-R2, NCEP-NCAR-R1, NOAA-CIRES-20CR, PATMOS-x | cl |
| 45 | Surface Upwelling Longwave Radiation | CERES-EBAF, ESACCI-CLOUD, ISCCP-FH | rlus |
| 46 | Carbon Mass Flux out of Atmosphere Due to Net Biospheric Production on Land [kgC m-2 s-1] | GCP2018, GCP2020 | nbp |
| 47 | Total Dissolved Inorganic Phosphorus Concentration | WOA | po4 |
| 48 | TOA Incident Shortwave Radiation | CERES-EBAF, ESACCI-CLOUD, ISCCP-FH | rsdt |
| 49 | Omega (=dp/dt) | NCEP-NCAR-R1 | wap |
| 50 | Dissolved Oxygen Concentration | CT2019, ESACCI-GHG, ESRL, GCP2018, GCP2020, Landschuetzer2016, Landschuetzer2020, OceanSODA-ETHZ, Scripps-CO2-KUM, WOA | o2 |
| 51 | Percentage Crop Cover | ESACCI-LANDCOVER | cropFrac |
| 52 | Water Vapor Path | ISCCP-FH, JRA-25, NCEP-DOE-R2, NCEP-NCAR-R1, NOAA-CIRES-20CR, SSMI, SSMI-MERIS | prw |
| 53 | Geopotential Height | CFSR, NCEP-NCAR-R1 | zg |
| 54 | Ambient Fine Aerosol Optical Depth at 550nm | ESACCI-AEROSOL | od550lt1aer |
| 55 | Eastward Wind | CFSR, NCEP-NCAR-R1 | ua |
| 56 | Total Dissolved Inorganic Silicon Concentration | CFSR, GLODAP, HadISST, MOBO-DIC_MPIM, OSI-450-nh, OSI-450-sh, OceanSODA-ETHZ, PIOMAS, WOA | si |
| 57 | Mass Concentration of Total Phytoplankton Expressed as Chlorophyll in Sea Water | ESACCI-OC | chl |
| 58 | Natural Grass Area Percentage | ESACCI-LANDCOVER | grassFrac |
| 59 | Daily Minimum Near-Surface Air Temperature | E-OBS, NCEP-NCAR-R1 | tasmin |
| 60 | Condensed Water Path | MODIS, NOAA-CIRES-20CR | clwvi |
| 61 | TOA Outgoing Clear-Sky Longwave Radiation | CERES-EBAF, ESACCI-CLOUD, ISCCP-FH, JRA-25, JRA-55, NCEP-NCAR-R1 | rlutcs |
| 62 | Bare Soil Percentage Area Coverage | ESACCI-LANDCOVER | baresoilFrac |
| 63 | pH | GLODAP, OceanSODA-ETHZ | ph |
| 64 | Surface Carbonate Ion Concentration | OceanSODA-ETHZ | co3os |
| 65 | Surface Air Pressure | CALIPSO-GOCCP, E-OBS, ISCCP-FH, JRA-55, NCEP-NCAR-R1 | ps |
| 66 | Relative Humidity | AIRS-2-0, AIRS-2-1, NCEP-DOE-R2, NCEP-NCAR-R1 | hur |
| 67 | Surface Temperature | CFSR, ESACCI-LST, ESACCI-SST, HadISST, ISCCP-FH, NCEP-NCAR-R1 | ts |
| 68 | Eastward Near-Surface Wind | CFSR | uas |
| 69 | TOA Outgoing Shortwave Radiation | CERES-EBAF, ESACCI-CLOUD, ISCCP-FH, JRA-25, JRA-55, NCEP-NCAR-R1, NOAA-CIRES-20CR | rsut |
| 70 | Daily-Mean Near-Surface Wind Speed | CFSR, NCEP-NCAR-R1 | sfcWind |
| 71 | Surface Total Alkalinity | OceanSODA-ETHZ | talkos |
| 72 | Percentage Cover by Shrub | ESACCI-LANDCOVER | shrubFrac |