Eastern Pacific SST Trends in CMIP6 vs. Observations

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@hdrake1

How are you planning on handling observations? Is there somewhere specific on the cloud that we should store them? Are they already there or is part of the hacking going to be writing code to scrape them from online databases and load as xarray datasets?

Ocean observations are usually pretty lightweight so can be loaded on demand from OpenDAP or downloaded on the fly. There is no specific tool or data catalog in place which can handle all observations.

More generally, I think it’s best if this project were merged with @rcjwills’s project:

Response of tropical Pacific SSTs to climate forcing in CMIP6

Response of tropical Pacific SSTs to climate forcing in CMIP6 Scientific Motivation The gradient of sea-surface temperatures (SSTs) between the western and eastern equatorial Pacific, with warmer temperatures in the western Warm Pool than in the eastern Cold Tongue, is a key asymmetry in the climate system. It influences where the atmosphere exhibits deep convection, how the Earth system radiates energy to space, and the nature of global teleconnection patterns. Past generations of CMIP models h…

I am realizing that, with my organizer duties, it’s probably not wise for me to also be leading a project myself.