ESMValTool community workshop 11-13 May 2026 #273
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Here are some topics I could give a talk about:
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Considering the topic, if you want some ideas for the more practical parts of the workshop: It's been brought up several times that a lot of our recipes are still based on CMIP5 data. We could identify a few that we want to use for CMIP7 and then see if they work out of the box or if some diagnostics need tweaks for the expected CMIP7 data format (or live testing with data if any are available by then) |
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Requests by the UET:
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There are already some styles planned for IPCC AR7 figures public, e.g. icons, color maps: see IPCC-AR7-WG1/figure-design can we link/include them? |
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Hi all. Registration for the ESMValTool community workshop is now open! Travelling to Exeter Thanks for the suggestions in the discussion above. Keep them coming... (but register first!) |
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usual technical update from Old V, please, at a hangover-friendly hour would be well appreciated 😁 |
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Hi all, a final reminder to register for the ESMValTool workshop. The deadline is tomorrow! (Thursday 23 April) Also, thanks for the agenda suggestions. Please keep them coming... |
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Registration for the workshop is now closed. A confirmation email has been sent to registered participants. Please contact me (email address at top of this thread) if you think you registered but didn't get an email just now. The agenda is under development. Please reply to this discussion ASAP if would like to suggest additional topics for the agenda. |
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As discussed at the workshop last year, we plan to switch from mamba/conda to pixi for managing our development environment. This will bring improved reproducibility and is more user-friendly, but there is some learning curve, so I would like to give a short (10 minutes) demo on the first day at the start of the coding session. Assuming we will have a coding session in the afternoon again? Then we can merge the pull requests that will implement this change, ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#3044 and ESMValGroup/ESMValTool#4407, and everyone can immediately start working with it. |
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Hi all, really looking forward to seeing you in Exeter or online next week! The draft agenda is now available at the top of this discussion. Please review and feedback if any issues.
There are some available slots for discussions, so feel free to suggest additional topics. |
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Since the schedule is a bit rough for our time zone, I will not join for intro. Hope to hear a bunch of progress in the general sessions though :-) |
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Question Answer RE: @katjaweigel asked about #!/bin/bash
#SBATCH --job-name=myjob
#SBATCH --time=01:00:00
#SBATCH --cpus-per-task=4
pixi run --frozen --verbose esmvaltool --helpsubmitted as a small job: |
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Question Answer RE: @ehogan asking about overhead time most probably due to network storage and pixi:
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Dear ESMValTool community and @ESMValGroup/esmvaltool-developmentteam,
The next ESMValTool community workshop will take place 11-13 May 2026. The workshop will be held at the Met Office in Exeter, UK, with online participation available also.
Agenda
All times are given in BST (UTC+1)
Remote joining instructions have been shared with registered participants by email.
11 May 2026 - Day 1 (Monday)
Morning: Conference room 3 Chair: Birgit Hassler
9:00 am Arrival, registration, coffee
9:30 am Introduction, welcome and workshop agenda (Alistair Sellar)
9:50 am User Engagement Team update and recent requests (Lisa Bock)
10:30 am Coffee
11:00 am Demo: how to run ESMValTool with (fake) CMIP7 data (Bouwe Andela)
11:30 am Pixi introduction and demo (Valeriu Predoi)
12:00 – 1:00 pm Lunch
Afternoon: Collaboration space E1
1:00 – 5:00 pm Coding session
1.00 pm Introduction of coding topics
2:00 pm Coffee
(3:00 pm Parallel session: User Engagement Team Meeting E1-2)
4:00 pm Summary and wrap up of day 1 & discussion (Birgit Hassler)
12 May 2026 - Day 2 (Tuesday)
Morning: Conference room 3 Chair: Ranjini Swaminathan
9:00 am Introduction day 2 and workshop agenda (Birgit Hassler)
9:15 am CMIP7 data
10:30 am Coffee
11:00 am ESMValTool consortium updates (Alistair Sellar)
11:20 am Styles planned for IPCC AR7 figures public, e.g. icons, color maps. How to include them in ESMValTool outputs? (Katja Weigel)
11:40 am Workshop photo - outside Met Office reception
12:00 – 1:00 pm Lunch
Afternoon: Collaboration space E1
1:00 – 5:00 pm Coding session (all afternoon)
1.00 pm Introduction of coding topics
2:00 pm Coffee
(2:30 pm Parallel session: Tech Lead Team Meeting E1-4)
4:00 pm Summary and wrap up of day 2 & discussion (Alistair Sellar)
7:00 pm Workshop dinner. Crave restaurant, Exeter.
13 May 2026 - Day 3 (Wednesday)
Morning: Conference room 3 Chair: Axel Lauer
9:00 am Introduction day 3 and workshop agenda (Alistair Sellar)
9:15 am Configuring data sources and emerging support for data in cloud-native formats (#2690, #2917) (Bouwe Andela)
10:00 am ESMValTool strategy - plans for a journal article (Birgit Hassler)
10:30 am Coffee
11:00 am Technical update (Valeriu Predoi)
Request to discuss - managing recipes for CMIP6 and CMIP7 and revisiting obs data storage and organization on HPC servers (rswamina).
12:00 – 1:00 pm Lunch
Afternoon: Collaboration space E1
1:00 – 5:00 pm Coding session (all afternoon)
1.00 pm Introduction of coding topics
2:00 pm Coffee
4:00 pm Summary and wrap up of day 3 & discussion (Birgit Hassler)
Context and aims
ESMValTool is a community diagnostic and performance metrics tool for evaluation and analysis of Earth system models. ESMValTool workshops are for the whole community, to participate in discussions that shape the future of our community, and to work with ESMValTool to evaluate and analyse climate model data. The workshop schedule will have discussions in the (UK/EU) mornings and coding / drop-in sessions in the afternoons where you can seek help from experienced users and developers.
The focus of this workshop will be getting ready for evaluation and analysis of CMIP7 data. So please join us if you plan to use CMIP7 data and would like to take advantage of ESMValTool’s multi-model support and powerful data processing capabilities.
Visiting the UK
From the UK government website: “Most visitors travelling to the UK need an ETA or a visa... You usually need an ETA rather than a visa if you’re from Europe, the USA, Australia, Canada or certain other countries.”
You can use this site to check whether you need an ETA or a visa: https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.
Please contact Alistair Sellar if you have any questions.
Travelling to Exeter
The Met Office website has useful information about travelling to our Exeter office:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/contact/how-to-find-our-offices#Exeter
The Met Office is about 5km from the city centre. There are 3 hotels within 2km of the office. However, buses in and out of the city centre are more reliable in the day time, so if you plan to socialise in the evening (!?) I would recommend staying at one of the many hotels in the city centre.
Thanks,
Alistair on behalf of the ESMValTool Steering Group
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