Governance

The ESMValTool governance structure is described here. The following partners have signed a consortium agreement (in alphabetical order):

  • Australian National University, ACCESS-NRI, Australia (in the process of becoming a new member)
  • Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain
  • Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Germany (Co-PI)
  • Met Office, United Kingdom (Co-PI)
  • Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), United Kingdom
  • Netherlands eScience Center (NLeSC), The Netherlands
  • Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), Sweden

Coordination teams

The following three teams help to coordinate the development and maintenance:

  • Scientific Lead Development Team defines and maintains scientific standards, prioritizes future development needs, oversees the scientific documentation
  • Technical Lead Development Team oversees and develops technical developments, infrastructure (including releases) and technical documentation
  • User Engagement Team interacts with the users in collaboration with the technical and scientific lead development teams and coordinates development and maintenance of the ESMValTool tutorial

ESMValTool Development Team

ESMValTool is developed by a community of scientists and research software engineers from multiple institutes (in alphabetical order):

  • Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l’energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile (ENEA), Italy
  • Alfred Wegener institute (AWI) Bremerhaven, Germany
  • Australian National University (ACCESS-NRI), Australia
  • Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain
  • Bristol Research Initiative for the Dynamic Global Environment (BRIDGE), University of Bristol, United Kingdom
  • Brown University, RI, USA
  • Center for International Climate Research (CICERO), Norway
  • Centre for Climate Change Research, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, India
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  • Colorado State University, CO, USA
  • Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum (DKRZ), Germany
  • Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Germany
  • Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Canada
  • ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  • Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC)
  • Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Finland
  • Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
  • Freie Universität Berlin (FUB), Germany
  • GERICS Climate Service Center, Germany
  • Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) NOAA, USA
  • Government of Canada, Canada
  • IBS Center for Climate Physics, Pusan National University, Korea
  • Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
  • Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL), France
  • Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISAC-CNR), Italy
  • Institute of Physics of Cantabria (IFCA), University of Cantabria, Spain
  • Institute of Oceanology of Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
  • Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Brazil
  • International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA), United Arab Emirates
  • IPCC WGI Technical Support Unit (TSU), France
  • Irish Climate Analysis and Research UnitS (ICARUS), Maynooth University, Ireland
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMKTRO), Germany
  • Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE)/ Environnements et Paléoenvironnements Océaniques et Continentaux (EPOC), France
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), CA, USA
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), CA, USA
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
  • Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (MPI), Germany
  • Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI), Germany
  • Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA), Spain
  • Météo France, France
  • Met Office, United Kingdom
  • Monash University, Australia
  • National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), CO, USA
  • National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC), STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom
  • National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), Australia
  • National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), New Zealand
  • Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), United Kingdom
  • Netherlands eScience Center (NLeSC), The Netherlands
  • Norwegian Meteorological Institute (Met Norway), Norway
  • Ouranos, Canada
  • Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), United Kingdom
  • Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), The Netherlands
  • Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), Sweden
  • Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
  • UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, United Kingdom
  • Uni Research, Norway
  • Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU), Spain
  • Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium
  • University of Arizona, AZ, USA
  • University of Bergen, Geophysical Institute, Norway
  • University of Bremen, Germany
  • University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa
  • University of Delft, The Netherlands
  • University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
  • University of Exeter, United Kingdom
  • University of Gothenburg, Department of Earth Sciences, Sweden
  • University of Hamburg, Germany
  • University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
  • University of Melbourne, Australia
  • University of Paris, France
  • University of Reading, United Kingdom
  • University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium
  • Wageningen University, The Netherlands
  • Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, Karl-Franzens-Universität, Austria

Projects funding the ESMValTool development

See list of projects.