Open znichollscr opened 4 weeks ago
Over time, mip CMOR tables should become the source of truth. For now, it's not quite so crystal clear.
There is heaps of information available. The issue is that it's not in easily usable, codified form (e.g. as a Fortran/python library). History books with all the information: https://zenodo.org/communities/pcmdi/records?q=&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=newest
If we can get the JSON-LD stuff going (x-ref #110), then we can likely auto-generate a lot of this information.
The CMOR definitions are very opaque to people who don't work with this stuff a lot. For example, what the grid labels actually mean, which is actually spelt out pretty nicely here: https://github.com/PCMDI/mip-cmor-tables/blob/main/MIP_grid_label.json
To close this issue:
The long-term solution would be to link docs on in the CMOR/MIP repositories where this is captured, but I don't think they're stable/available yet (@durack1 please correct me if I'm wrong).
x-ref https://github.com/PCMDI/input4MIPs_CVs/issues/55#issuecomment-2291333561