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Record Id	64446
Title	Describing Earth System Simulations with the Metafor CIM
Contributors	BN Lawrence (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), V Balaji (NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory & Princeton U.), P Bentley (Met Office Hadley Centre), S Callaghan (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), C DeLuca (NOAA Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences), S Denvil (CNRS, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace), G Devine (National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) & Reading U.), M Elkington (Met Office Hadley Centre), RW Ford (STFC Daresbury Lab.), E Guilyardi (Reading U.), M Lautenschlager (Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum), M Morgan (CNRS, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace), M Moine (CERFACS), S Murphy (NOAA Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences), C Pascoe (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), H Ramthun (Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum), P Slavin (Manchester U.), L Steenman-Clark (Reading U.), F Toussaint (CERFACS), A Treshansky (NOAA Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences), S Valcke (CERFACS)
Abstract	The Metafor project has developed a Common Information Model (CIM) using the ISO1900 series formalism to describe the sorts of numerical experiments carried out by the earth system modelling community, the models they use, and the simulations that result. Here we describe the mechanism by which the CIM was developed, and its key properties. We introduce the conceptual and application versions and the controlled vocabularies developed in the context of supporting the fifth Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5). We describe how the CIM has been used in experiments to describe model coupling properties and describe the near term expected evolution of the CIM.
Organisation	STFC , RALSP , RALSP-BADC , SCI-COMP
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Language	English (EN)

Type	Details	URI(s)	Local file(s)	Year
Journal Article	Geosci Model Dev 5, no. 2 (2012): 1669-1689.	doi:10.5194/gmdd-5-1669-2012		2012