The Earth System Grid (ESG) is a data distribution portal whose development is funded mainly by the

United States Department of Energy The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government that oversees U.S. national energy policy and manages the research and development of nuclear power and nuclear weapons in the United Stat ...

. It is the portal through which the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison at

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a federal research facility in Livermore, California, United States. The lab was originally established as the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Livermore Branch in 1952 in response ...

is distributing data for the

IPCC Fourth Assessment Report ''Climate Change 2007'', the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was published in 2007 and is the fourth in a series of reports intended to assess scientific, technical and socio ...

and the 2014

IPCC Fifth Assessment Report The Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the fifth in a series of such reports and was completed in 2014.IPCC (2014The IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) leaflet/ref> As h ...

.A. Chervenak, E. Deelman, C. Kesselman, W. Allcock, I. Foster, V. Nefedova, J. Lee, A. Sim, A. Shoshani, B. Drach, D. Williams, and D. Middleton,
"High-performance remote access to climate simulation data: a challenge problem for data grid technologies"

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; 29(10), pp. 1335–1356 (2003)

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