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Righi, M, Andela, B, Eyring, V, Lauer, A, Predoi, V, Schlund, M, Vegas-Regidor, J, Bock, L, Brötz, B, de Mora, L, Diblen, F, Dreyer, L, Drost, N, Earnshaw, P, Hassler, B, Koldunov, N, Little, B, Loosveldt Tomas, S and Zimmermann, KE 2020 Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) v2.0 – technical overview. Geoscientific Model Development, 13 (3). 1179-1199. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-1179-2020
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Abstract/Summary
This paper describes the second major release of the Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool), a community diagnostic and performance metrics tool for the evaluation of Earth system models (ESMs) participating in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP). Comparedtoversion1.0,releasedin2016,ESMValToolversion 2.0 (v2.0) features a brand new design, with an improved interface and a revised preprocessor. It also features a significantly enhanced diagnostic part that is described in three companion papers. The new version of ESMValTool has been specifically developed to target the increased data volume of CMIP Phase 6 (CMIP6) and the related challenges posed by the analysis and the evaluation of output from multiple high-resolution or complex ESMs. The new version takes advantage of state-of-the-art computational libraries and methods to deploy an efficient and user-friendly data processing. Common operations on the input data (such as regridding or computation of multi-model statistics) are centralizedinahighlyoptimizedpreprocessor,whichallows applying a series of preprocessing functions before diagnostics scripts are applied for in-depth scientific analysis of the model output. Performance tests conducted on a set of standard diagnostics show that the new version is faster than its predecessor by about a factor of 3. The performance can be further improved, up to a factor of more than 30, when the newly introduced task-based parallelization options are used, which enable the efficient exploitation of much larger computing infrastructures. ESMValTool v2.0 also includes a revised and simplified installation procedure, the setting of user-configurable options based on modern language formats, and high code quality standards following the best practices for software development.
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| Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.: | The authors are grateful to Matthias Nützel (DLR, Germany) for his helpful suggestions on a previous version of the paper and to the two anonymous referees who reviewed the paper. The computational resources of the DKRZ (Hamburg, Germany) were essential for developing and testing this new version and are kindly acknowledged. |
| Divisions: | Plymouth Marine Laboratory > National Capability categories > Long-term Multi-Centre UKESM Plymouth Marine Laboratory > Science Areas > Marine System Modelling |
| Depositing User: | S Hawkins |
| Date made live: | 02 Jun 2020 13:05 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Dec 2023 12:21 |
| URI: | https://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/8949 |
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