Welcome to ESMValTool’s documentation!#
ESMValTool is a community diagnostics and performance metrics tool for the evaluation of Earth System Models (ESMs) that allows for routine comparison of models and observations. It includes a large collection of community recipes and observation data formatters to CMOR standards.
ESMValCore is a software package which provides the core functionality for ESMValTool. It is a workflow to find CMIP data, and apply commonly used pre-processing functions.
To get a first impression of what ESMValTool and ESMValCore can do for you, have a look at our blog posts Analysis-ready climate data with ESMValCore and ESMValTool: Recipes for solid climate science.
Basic documentation schema#
This gives a brief idea of topics in each of the packages to help find information. As ESMValTool encompasses ESMValCore there will be some overlap between them. The documentation navigation to the left provides more detailed information about ESMValTool. ESMValCore documentation is also available. ESMValCore can be used without ESMValTool such as in Jupyter notebooks.
Learning resources:#
A tutorial is available on https://tutorial.esmvaltool.org.
A series of video lectures has been created by ACCESS-NRI. While these are tailored for ACCESS users, they are still very informative.
How to contribute#
Refer to ESMValTool contributing to the community for a guide on contributing recipes and diagnostics.
Refer to ESMValCore contributing for information on contributing code.
Get in touch!#
Contact information is available here.