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Advancing Climate Research with the Common Information Model (CIM) through METAFOR Project

The METAFOR project, initiated in March 2008 and concluding in 2011, aimed to standardize metadata in climate research using the Common Information Model (CIM). Coordinated by NCAS at the University of Reading, this collaborative effort involved 11 partners across Europe, focusing on creating a systematic framework to enhance the discoverability of climate data and models. By integrating existing metadata standards and developing a prototype infrastructure, METAFOR facilitates better data comparison and management within distributed repositories. Join us in exploring how CIM shapes future climate modeling and research practices.

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Advancing Climate Research with the Common Information Model (CIM) through METAFOR Project

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  1. CIM – The Common Information Model in Climate Research Michael Lautenschlager, Hans Ramthun(World Data Center Climate / Max-Planck-Institute forMeteorology) and METAFOR Project Team Networking Event for European Research Infrastructures + Standards Workshop October 1 – 2, 2009, Helsinki

  2. METAFOR Partner • 11 partners • Started March 2008, duration 3 years • NCAS, University of Reading, UK (Coordinator) • BADC, Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK • CERFACS, France • Model and Data, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany • Institute Pierre-Simon Laplace, CNRS, France • University of Manchester, UK • Met Office, UK • AdministratiaNationala de Meterologie, Romania • Météo France, CNRM, France • CLIMPACT, France • CICS, Princeton University, USA

  3. METAFOR Objectives Create a standard metadataCommon Information Model (CIM) to describe climate data and the models and experiments that produced those data • Allows essential data, model and experiment distinctions to be understood • Builds on existing metadata standards used internationally in climate (CF, CDML, CSML, Curator, NMM, FLUME, ISO etc.) • Uses existing format and framework (XML, RDF, etc.)

  4. METAFOR Objectives Develop, deploy, and evaluate a prototype infrastructure that will allow key data and models to be discovered and compared between distributed digital repositories • single sign-on services to populate and manipulate, the CIM metadata • services exploit NDG CSML to provide a common Geographic Markup Language interface to climate data • centralized CIM content harvested from individual repositories using OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting).

  5. METAFOR standards definition International Emerging Community Discovery metadata ISO 19139 ISO 19115 Climate Modelling gridspec - model discretisation Sensor ML - observations NMM - model description CERA2 - data management Data CF for netcdf • Metafor will coordinate • filling of metadata gaps • mapping to different standards • aggregating the metadata • creating new standards (if necessary)

  6. IdentifiedMetadata Gaps • Existingmetadatamodels in Earth systemmodelingprovidedescriptionofmodel output. Thisdescriptioniscompletewithrespectto browse, search, identifyanduseEarth system model results. • Identifiedgaps in existingmetadatamodelsfor Earth systemmodellingare: • Provennanceinformationand • Structured, searchabledescriptionofnumericalmodels

  7. METAFOR CIM schematic view Shared pkg Grids pkg Quality pkg Data pkg Software pkg Activity pkg CIM schema is found here: http://metaforclimate.eu/trac/browser/CIM

  8. METAFOR Model, Experiment & Data Software / Model (ECHAM5, HiGEM, OASIS,...) Activity / Experiments Data

  9. METAFOR CV, Software Class (CV types) • modelComponent: • Atmosphere • AtmosphericChemistry • LandIce • SeaIce • Ocean • OceanBiogeochemistry • LandSurface • Coupling (Reggriding)

  10. Metafor CV, Software Class, Athmosphere More complexvocabularies in subsequent hierachylayers

  11. Methodof CV Developement in METAFOR • Applicationusecase: • CMIP5 / IPCC AR5 climateprojectionsfrom Earth systemmodels • Methodsof CV developmentfortheCIM softwareclasses • Prototypingwithselected Earth system model developingscientists (interviews) • Structuringwith METAFOR procject • Presentationanddiscussionwithin wider Earth systemmodellingcommunity • Revisedversionistakenfortheapplicationusecase • Experience fromapplicationuse will improvethe CIM CV implementation (nextiterationloop) • Requirement:communityagreementisneededforacceptance • Missing:formalisedprocesstoexpand CIM CV listsisyet not in place.

  12. CMIP5/AR5 Metadata Capture Metadata sources METAFOR Questionnaire CMOR-2 GridSpec Transformation of output into CIM XML CIM intermediate XML

  13. CMIP5/AR5 Data Repository CIM intermediate XML ESG (US) GUI for interactive completion GeoNetwork (MPI) IS-ENES (EU) other NO complete? XML DB / RDBMS (CIM repository) YES Upload

  14. Essential METAFOR Links Homepage: http://metaforclimate.eu/ Prototype of CIM Human GUI: http://anticyclone.dkrz.de:8088/geonetwork/ Prototype of CMIP5 questionnaire: http://cmip5.metafor.ceda.ac.uk/cmip5/ METAFOR CV server: ‘Not Yet Available!’ Work in progress: List of so far captured CV entries http://metaforclimate.eu/trac/wiki/WP2/ControlledVocabulariesList

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