Climate Science for a Sustainable Energy Future Test Bed and Data Infrastructure Final Report

• Main Authors: Williams, Dean N., Foster, I., Van Dam, Kerstin Kleese, Shipman, G.
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1132037; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1132037; https://doi.org/10.2172/1132037

The collaborative Climate Science for a Sustainable Energy Future (CSSEF) project started in July 2011 with the goal of accelerating the development of climate model components (i.e., atmosphere, ocean and sea ice, and land surface) and enhancing their predictive capabilities while incorporating uncertainty quantification (UQ). This effort required accessing and converting observational data sets into specialized model testing and verification data sets and building a model development test bed, where model components and sub-models can be rapidly evaluated. CSSEF’s prototype test bed demonstrated, how an integrated testbed could eliminate tedious activities associated with model development and evaluation, by providing the capability to constantly compare model output—where scientists store, acquire, reformat, regrid, and analyze data sets one-by-one—to observational measurements in a controlled test bed.