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ESMValTool Tutorial: About

ESMValTool

The Earth System Model Evaluation Tool, ESMValTool, is a python-based software toolkit built to evaluate models of the Earths climate.

ESMVAlTool is made to be:

The toolkit is built with a sensible and modern code development process. Where possible, we follow software development best practices, including code review & monitoring, unit & integration testing, and fully transparent design decisions.

ESMValTool is open source and available on github, and is written in PEP8-compliant Python3.

For more details on ESMValTool, please go to:

ESMValTool_Tutorial

The ESMValTool tutorial was made to help people learn how to install, use, and develop ESMValTool.

The tutorial uses the software carpentry format and tools, and can be followed both independently and in a taught tutorial environment.

The tutorial has been produced by the ESMValTool User Engagement team, and may be forked, developped and rehosted by other groups.

License

Please see license information.

Citation

Please use citation information available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3974591.

Acknowledgements

Citing the ESMValTool paper and registering your papers will serve to document the scientific impact of the Software, which is of vital importance for securing future funding. You should consider this an obligation if you have taken advantage of the ESMValTool, which represents the end product of considerable effort by the development teams.

Please cite ESMValTool paper as:

@article{Righi2020, doi = {10.5194/gmd-13-1179-2020}, url = {https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-1179-2020}, year = {2020}, month = mar, publisher = {Copernicus {GmbH}}, volume = {13}, number = {3}, pages = {1179–1199}, author = {Mattia Righi and Bouwe Andela and Veronika Eyring and Axel Lauer and Valeriu Predoi and Manuel Schlund and Javier Vegas-Regidor and Lisa Bock and Bj"{o}rn Br"{o}tz and Lee de Mora and Faruk Diblen and Laura Dreyer and Niels Drost and Paul Earnshaw and Birgit Hassler and Nikolay Koldunov and Bill Little and Saskia Loosveldt Tomas and Klaus Zimmermann}, title = {Earth System Model Evaluation Tool ({ESMValTool}) v2.0 {\textendash} technical overview}, journal = {Geoscientific Model Development} }

and cite ESMValTool and ESMValCore software as:

@misc{https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3401363, doi = {10.5281/ZENODO.3401363}, url = {https://zenodo.org/record/3401363}, author = {Andela, Bouwe and Broetz, Bjoern and de Mora, Lee and Drost, Niels and Eyring, Veronika and Koldunov, Nikolay and Lauer, Axel and Mueller, Benjamin and Predoi, Valeriu and Righi, Mattia and Schlund, Manuel and Vegas-Regidor, Javier and Zimmermann, Klaus and Adeniyi, Kemisola and Arnone, Enrico and Bellprat, Omar and Berg, Peter and Bock, Lisa and Caron, Louis-Philippe and Carvalhais, Nuno and Cionni, Irene and Cortesi, Nicola and Corti, Susanna and Crezee, Bas and Davin, Edouard Leopold and Davini, Paolo and Deser, Clara and Diblen, Faruk and Docquier, David and Dreyer, Laura and Ehbrecht, Carsten and Earnshaw, Paul and Gier, Bettina and Gonzalez-Reviriego, Nube and Goodman, Paul and Hagemann, Stefan and von Hardenberg, Jost and Hassler, Birgit and Hunter, Alasdair and Kadow, Christopher and Kindermann, Stephan and Koirala, Sujan and Lledó, Lloren\c{c} and Lejeune, Quentin and Lembo, Valerio and Little, Bill and Loosveldt-Tomas, Saskia and Lorenz, Ruth and Lovato, Tomas and Lucarini, Valerio and Massonnet, Fran\c{c}ois and Mohr, Christian Wilhelm and Amarjiit, Pandde and Pérez-Zanón, Núria and Phillips, Adam and Russell, Joellen and Sandstad, Marit and Sellar, Alistair and Senftleben, Daniel and Serva, Federico and Sillmann, Jana and Stacke, Tobias and Swaminathan, Ranjini and Torralba, Verónica and Weigel, Katja}, title = {ESMValTool}, publisher = {Zenodo}, year = {2020}, copyright = {Apache License 2.0} }

@misc{https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3387139, doi = {10.5281/ZENODO.3387139}, url = {https://zenodo.org/record/3387139}, author = {Andela, Bouwe and Broetz, Bjoern and de Mora, Lee and Drost, Niels and Eyring, Veronika and Koldunov, Nikolay and Lauer, Axel and Predoi, Valeriu and Righi, Mattia and Schlund, Manuel and Vegas-Regidor, Javier and Zimmermann, Klaus and Bock, Lisa and Diblen, Faruk and Dreyer, Laura and Earnshaw, Paul and Hassler, Birgit and Little, Bill and Loosveldt-Tomas, Saskia}, title = {ESMValCore}, publisher = {Zenodo}, year = {2020}, copyright = {Apache License 2.0} }

See additional resources at https://www.esmvaltool.org/references.html.

The technical development work for ESMValTool v2.0 was funded by various projects.