Emma Hogan: The Met Office and the climate model evaluation community

Full title: The Met Office and the climate model evaluation community: a story of collaborations, challenges and conversations
Reuploaded to fix to a recording error in the slides.
A talk from the RSE Communities session at RSECon23 at Swansea University, on 2023-09-07.
Programme link: virtual.oxford...
Slides: docs.google.co...
Captions edited by David Standby.
Abstract:
Climate model evaluation is a crucial step in the development and improvement of climate modelling capability. In 2020, the Met Office (the UK's national meteorological service) made the decision to replace their bespoke, in-house tools used to perform climate model evaluation with an open-source, community driven tool called ESMValTool. Adopting ESMValTool at the Met Office enables all the benefits of using open source software, including collaborating with the wider climate model evaluation and analysis community, but it also comes with challenges. The Met Office journey so far includes:
completing technical analysis to support the strategic commitment to adopt ESMValTool
facilitating the development of a governance structure
making contributions to the community, including hosting an ESMValTool workshop last October
Come along to hear more about our journey and what makes ESMValTool a successful open-source community!
0:00 Title card
0:04 Talk
17:32 Q&A