The European Network for Earth System Modeling Climate Data Infrastructure
The European Network for Earth System Modeling Climate Data Infrastructure (ENES CDI) is a Research Infrastructure which aligns and pools national services and resources to support the European climate research community. It is closely integrated into the worldwide Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF). Core services, such as data ingestion, hosting and access for climate simulations in the multi-PByte range, are complemented by persistent identifier (PID) services that enable data versioning, data replication, collection building and annotation with external information. High-level collections are associated with DOIs whose persistence is guaranteed by the World Data Centre for Climate (WDCC). Processing services close to the data are stepwise integrated into the infrastructure. This includes JupyterHub installations as well as web service interfaces based on OGC WPS (Open Geospatial Consortium Web Processing Service) standard.ENES provides standardised and quality-controlled, open data collections from various climate modeling activities. Most prominent examples are the collections from Coupled Model Intercomparison Projects (CMIP) and the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiments (CORDEX).