I’m sitting in a CMIP task team considering what we should do for model documentation (and the simulation workflow) in CMIP7: we will be threading the needle between what modellers will actually do (creating information) and what users (using information) need or want to know.

#cmip6, #cmip7, #esdoc

An example for why we need proper CMIP model documentation (#esdoc)

There is data from a model (""IPSL-CM6A-ATM-LR-REPROBUS””) which reports its aerosol component as “LMDZ NPV6” but AFAIK that’s the atmosphere, and it says nothing about whether INCA was turned on or not.

I’m going to guess yes, but there is no obvious paper or documentation to tell me.

Fortunately for this particular usage, it doesn’t matter. But.

(NB: IPSL is _good_ at model docs in comparison to most!)