This road map is currently under revision. An update will be posted soon.

Purpose

This roadmap outlines the ESMValTool development planned including a rough timeline and (if applicable) the project funding these activities.

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Time line	Project	Tasks
Q2 2020	CMIP6-DICAD	Import capability of (native) EMAC2 output (M7)
Q4 2020	CRESCENDO	Making use of observations from ESA CCI and obs4MIPs, extending the physical climate to include key biogeochemical diagnostics (LMU) New diagnostics for operational analysis of multi-model ESM projections (LMU)
Q3 2020-Q3 2021	ESA CCI CMUG Phase 3	Implementation of the following ESA CCI+ datasets including new diagnostics and metrics to exploit the data for model evaluation (D5.3): land surface temperature (MetO) long-lived ghg (CH4) (DLR) water vapor (DLR) sea surface salinity (BSC) ocean color (SMHI)
Q3 2020-Q4 2022	IS-ENES3	Support for unstructured grids (D9.1, met.no) Quicklook system for online diagnostics (D9.2, MetO) ESGF coupling and distributed computation features (D9.3, UREAD-NCAS) Extension to evaluate regional climate models and different timescales (D9.4, BSC) IS-ENES3 ESMValTool version including coupling to community consensus developed packages such as the ENSO metrics package and technical improvements such as improved and enhanced automated testing (D9.5, DLR)
N/A	N/A	Autoassess diagnostics full inclusion in ESMValTool
N/A	N/A	ESMValTool as main monitoring tool for UKESM2 development and deployment
N/A	N/A	Extending the public Python API for the full functionality of the preprocessor