This repository is used for discussion, announcements, and other community based activities.
This issue tracker is intended to be low-to-medium traffic. Here are some proposed uses:
- Announcing meetings and sharing meeting notes
- Announcing workshops
- Discussing conferences
We hope that by removing these discussions from the high-traffic ESMValGroup/ESMValTool issue tracker more people will feel comfortable subscribing to them.
Format and agenda
- Anyone with an interest in ESMValTool is welcome to join and ask questions
- We start the meeting by doing a round where everyone gets one minute to introduce themselves and tell what they will be working on in the next month or what they would like help with.
- Using the input from the introduction round, we can decide to talk about specific topics with the entire group or make smaller breakout groups to continue the discussion there.
- GitHub issues (ESMValTool/ESMValCore) are our preferred way to communicate outside the meeting and keep track of work, so any feature requests/action items/etc discussed in the meeting should ideally result in a GitHub issue.
- If you already know that you would like to bring up a particular topic in the meeting, you can mention it in the GitHub discussion announcing the meeting. That will make it easy to find for other people in the meeting and we can already start discussing there before the meeting. If you expect there might be a lot of discussion on the topic, you might want to create a new GitHub discussion for it and link it from the meeting announcement disucssion.
Calendar invitations to the meeting are sent to the mailing list, join it here.
The user engagement team can be contacted at esmvaltool_user_engagement_team@listserv.dfn.de. Team meeting minutes can be found in User Engagement Lead.
The technical lead team can be contacted at esmvaltool_tech_lead_team@listserv.dfn.de. More information about the technical lead team meetings can be found in Tech Lead.
The scientific lead team can be contacted at esmvaltool_scientific_lead_team@listserv.dfn.de. Meeting notes from the science lead team meetings can be found in Science Lead.
Meeting notes from Steering Group meetings can be found in Steering Group.
| Date | Title | Venue/Audience | Presenter | Link to material/ announcement |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-10 | Analyzing climate model data with the Rapid Evaluation Framework and ESMValTool | NWO NAC 2026 | Bouwe @bouweandela | poster |
| 2025-11-27 | Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool): Analyzing CMIP-style data made easy | natESM Master course University of Cologne | Birgit @hb326 | |
| 2025-03-21 | Optimizing the computational Performance of the Earth System Model Evaluation Tool with Dask | NWO NAC 2025 | Bouwe @bouweandela | poster |
| 2024-09-02 | Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool): Analyzing CMIP-style data made easy | 2024 ACCESS Community Workshop, Canberra/Australia (invited; remotely) | Birgit @hb326 | |
| 2024-07-24 | An Introduction to ESMValTool | A-RIP Workshop in Boulder/USA; part of a taught tutorial | Birgit @hb326 | |
| 2024-07-22 | Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool): Analyzing CMIP-style data made easy | A-RIP Workshop in Boulder/USA | Birgit @hb326 | |
| 2024-07-03 | Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool): Analyzing CMIP-style data made easy | Seminar at ORNL/Tennessee/USA | Birgit @hb326 | |
| 2024-05-21 | An Introduction to ESMValTool | AI4PEX Project Kick off Meeting | Ranjini @rswamina | slides |
| 2023-11-09 | Reliable and reproducible Earth System Model data analysis with ESMValTool | NCAR Workshop on Correctness and Reproducibility for Climate and Weather Software | Valeriu @valeriupredoi | slides |
| 2023-09-05 | Analysis-ready climate data with ESMValCore and ESMValTool | EMS2023 | Peter @Peter9192 | abstract |
| 2023-06-15 | Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool): Analyzing CMIP data made easy | CACTI Meeting Kiel/Germany (participants of the AerChemMIP, RFMIP, PDRMIP, and RAMIP) | Birgit @hb326 | |
| 2023-05-10 | Research software and beyond - a community and FAIR software: ESMVaITool for evaluations of Earth system models | DCC Event: Sustainable Research Software: Challenges & Solutions, University of Groningen, Netherlands | Sarah@SarahAlidoost | presentation |
| 2023-04-13 | Reproducible climate data analysis with ESMValTool | GRS and WRM seminar, TU Delft, The Netherlands | Peter @Peter9192 and Bouwe @bouweandela | |
| 2023-04-05 | NCEO ESMValTool Tutorial (Basic) | National Centre for Earth Observation, UK and the TerraFIRMA project | Ranjini @rswamina | presentation |
| 2023-03-24 | Climate data analysis with ESMValTool | NAC 2023 | Bouwe @bouweandela | presentation |
| 2022-12-15 | Evaluation of Native Earth System Model Output with ESMValTool | AGU Fall Meeting 2022 (Chicago, IL, USA) | Manuel @schlunma | |
| 2022-11-28 | Introduction to ESMValTool | RDWK group at KNMI, The Netherlands | Bouwe @bouweandela | |
| 2022-09-05 | ESMValTool: A successful open-source software for evaluations of Earth system models | Lorentz workshop: Boosting (sub) seasonal forecasts with Explainable AI, Lorentz Center, Leiden University | Sarah @SarahAlidoost | |
| 2022-06-13 | Introduction to ESMValTool: webinar | IS-ENES3 | Klaus @zklaus | webpage and recording |
| 2021-10-07 | Research software and beyond - ESMValTool: a community and FAIR software for evaluations of Earth system models | Workshop on Sustainable Software Sustainability | Sarah @SarahAlidoost | webpage |
| 2021-09-07 | ESMValTool : Earth System Model Evaluation Tool and Tutorial | NCEO Session on EO for earth system model evaluation at the EO Week 2021 | Ranjini @rswamina | Webpage no longer active. |
| 2021-06-24 | ESMValTool User Engagement | Met Office UK ESMValTool Coffee Morning | Ranjini @rswamina | |
| 2021-05-19 | Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool): analyzing CMIP data made easy | DLR Institute for Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Neustrelitz/Germany | Birgit @hb326 | |
| 2021-05-18 | Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool): analyzing CMIP data made easy | COP26 Energy-Climate Hackathon lightning talk | Ranjini @rswamina | |
| 2021-04-22 | Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool): analyzing CMIP data made easy | Data Science of the Natural Environment Seminar, Lancaster/UK | Birgit @hb326 | |
| 2020-12-12 | ESMValCore and ESMValTool: analyzing CMIP data made easy | AGU Fall Meeting (virtually) | Birgit @hb326 | |
| 2020-11-17 | An Introduction to ESMValTool | NCAS/NCEO/MOHC Joint Forum: Bringing together observations and models to improve our simulations of the coupled Earth System. | Ranjini @rswamina | |
| 2020-04-21 | ESMValTool: A Community driven tool for climate model evaluation and analysis. | UK CMIP6 Worksho | Valeriu @valeriupredoi | webpage |
| 2020-06-16 | ESMValTool Progress and Updates | UKESM General Assembly | Ranjini @rswamina, Lee @ledm, Valeriu @valeriupredoi | webpage |
| 2020-01-08 | ESMValTool and NCEO Data | NCEO Data Meeting | Ranjini @rswamina | |
| 2019-06-00 | ESMValTool for model evaluation | JULES Evaluation Meeting | Ranjini @rswamina | |
| 2018-07-09 | ESMValTool: Diagnostics and Metrics for Earth System Model Evaluation | UKESM LTSM Project Annual Meeting | Ranjini @rswamina, Valeriu @valeriupredoi | |
| 2018-06-12 | CMIP model evaluation with the Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) | TriMIPathlon, Reading/UK (participants of AerChemMIP, RFMIP and PDRMIP) | Birgit @hb326 |
| Date | Title | Venue/Audience/ ~No. of attendees | Instructor | Link to material/ announcement | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-14 | ESMValTool Basic Topics, Uncertainty Handling in Observations, Introduction to Advanced topics | ESA-CCI LST, UK Met Office, TipESM ~12 | Ranjini rswamina, Birgit @hb326, Axel @axel-lauer, Bouwe @bouweandela, Emma @ehogan, Rob @morobking | slides-basic-topics, slides-intro-to-advanced-topics | Scientists |
| 2026-04-23 | ESMValTool Advanced Topics | Eso4Clima,AI4PEX,AIVAL, TerraFIRMA, Online, ~10 | Ranjini rswamina, Lisa Lisabock, Birgit @hb326, Julien @jlenh | slides | Scientists, Early Career |
| 2025-12-03 | Introduction to ESMValTool | Eso4Clima,AI4PEX,AIVAL, TerraFIRMA, Online, ~19 | Ranjini rswamina, Birgit @hb326, Julien @jlenh | slides | Scientists |
| 2025-11-27 | Introduction to ESMValTool | University of Cologne, Germany, ~8 | Birgit @hb326, Bettina @bettina-gier | Students | |
| 2025-11-25 | Introduction to ESMValTool | APARC/WCRP Workshop and Training School on AI for Climate and Weather Forecast, Mbour, Senegal (online), ~25 | Birgit @hb326, Bettina @bettina-gier | Students, early career researchers | |
| 2025-06-11 | ESMValTool tutorial | University of Stockholm, Sweden, ~12 | Birgit @hb326, Julien @jlenh | Students, early career researchers | |
| 2024-07-24 | ESMValTool tutorial | A-RIP Workshop, Boulder, USA, ~12 | Birgit @hb326, Manuel @schlunma (online), Axel @axel-lauer (online) | Research Group | |
| 2024-03-12--2024-03-15 | ESMValTool Hackathon | DLR, Munich, Germany, ~25 | Manuel @schlunma, Axel @axel-lauer, Birgit @hb326, Lisa @LisaBock | GitHub project | Organization |
| 2023-10-29 | ESMValTool tutorial | WCRP/SPARC Training school on “Climate Data Analysis and Artificial Intelligence in the Global South”, Kigali, Rwanda, ~30 | Birgit @hb326 | Early career researchers (mostly from Africa) | |
| 2023-09-05--2023-09-06 | ESMValTool Hackathon | DLR, Munich, Germany, ~15 | Manuel @schlunma, Axel @axel-lauer, Birgit @hb326, Lisa @LisaBock | GitHub project | Organization |
| 2023-05-30 | ESMValTool workshop | NICEST2, INES-interim, KeyCLIM, ~15 | Yanchun @YanchunHe, Alok @monsieuralok, Tomas @TomasTorsvik | webpage, material | Organization |
| 2023-04-17 | Training workshop: introduction to ESMValTool | ITC, University of Twente, Netherlands, ~25 | Bouwe @bouweandela, Pranav @cpranav93, Sarah @SarahAlidoost | webpage | Organization |
| 2023-02-14 | Introductory tutorial and processing native model output | DLR-IPA, ESM department, ~16 | Birgit @hb326, Axel @axel-lauer, Manuel @schlunma, Remi @remi-kazeroni | Research Group | |
| 2022-06-27 | Introduction to ESMValTool: a tool for evaluation of climate model data, workshop | IS-ENES3, ~25 | Remi @remi-kazeroni, Klaus @zklaus, Manuel @schlunma, Valeriu @valeriupredoi, Birgit @hb326 | webpage, introduction and material | |
| 2022-06-13 | ESMValTool: writing your own diagnostic | Online in CCCma (ECCC), ~12 | Liza@malininae | Internal for ECCC, no public link | Organization |
| 2022-05-25 | Earth System Model Evaluation with ESMValTool in the Jupyter notebook | EGU22, ~40 | Bouwe @bouweandela, Sarah @SarahAlidoost, Carsten @cehbrecht, Peter @Peter9192, and Klaus @zklaus | webpage, Jupyter notebook and instructions and slides | Conference |
| 2022-03-00 | Tutorial | Online (4C project), ~18 | Birgit @hb326, Manuel @schlunma, Remi @remi-kazeroni | Research Group | |
| 2022-02-00 | Tutorial | Online (UKCA), ~12 | Ranjini @rswamina, Klaus @zklaus, Remi @remi-kazeroni | Research Group | |
| 2021-09-13 | How to use ESMValTool? | Online in CCCma (ECCC), ~15 | Liza@malininae | Internal for ECCC, no public link | Organization |
| 2020-07-00 | Tutorial | Online (Plymouth Marine Labs, UK), ~12 | Lee @ledm, Ranjini @rswamina, Valeriu @valeriupredoi | Organization | |
| 2020-07-00 | Tutorial | Online(UK CMIP6 Analysis Workshop), ~12 | Lee @ledm, Ranjini @rswamina, Valeriu @valeriupredoi | Research Group | |
| 2020-07-00 | Tutorial | Online (LaunchPad Project Members ), ~13 | Lee @ledm, Ranjini @rswamina, Valeriu @valeriupredoi | webpage | Project |
| 2019-09-00 | Tutorial | Online (NCEO Conference, Nottingham, UK), ~11 | Lee @ledm, Ranjini @rswamina, Valeriu @valeriupredoi | Organization | |
| 2019-04-00 | Tutorial | NCEO, Leicester, UK, ~2 | Ranjini @rswamina | Organization | |
| 2019-02-00 | Tutorial | SMHI, Norkopping, Sweden - week long interactive course., ~9 | Lee @ledm, Ranjini @rswamina, Valeriu @valeriupredoi, Klaus @zklaus | Organization | |
| 2018-01-00 | Tutorial | UKESM Core Group, U.Reading, UK, ~8 | Lee @ledm, Ranjini @rswamina, Valeriu @valeriupredoi | Research Group |