The Global Organization of Earth System Science Portals or (''GO-ESSP'') is an international collaboration, formed in 2003, that is developing software infrastructure to support the distribution, and analysis of
climate model
Numerical climate models use quantitative methods to simulate the interactions of the important drivers of climate, including atmosphere, oceans, land surface and ice. They are used for a variety of purposes from study of the dynamics of the c ...
data and related observations.
GO-ESSP is playing a central role in coordinating United States and European efforts to document and distribute data for the 5th
coupled model intercomparison project
In climatology, the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) is a collaborative framework designed to improve knowledge of climate change. It was organized in 1995 by the Working Group on Coupled Modelling (WGCM) of the World Climate Research ...
, which will be part of the
IPCC Fifth Assessment Report.
References
External links
GO-ESSP home page
Numerical climate and weather models
Earth sciences software infrastructure organizations
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