CV OF INTEREST AND BRIEF INFO (replace with your title)

Registering your institution

To register (or edit) information about your institution, please title your issue "institution_id registration of [acronym for your institution]" and provide the following information:

'institution_id' -- a short acronym suitable for search interfaces and sub-directory names (should limit the characters used to the following set: a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and "-") 'institution' -- full name and address of institution, likely to include: laboratory/group name, hosting institution name, city, state/province and postal-code, country (no restriction on character set).

Example 1: [title your issue "institution_id registration of PCMDI"]

institution_id = PCMDI
institution = Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, USA

Example 2: [title your issue "institution_id registration of NASA-GISS"]

institution_id = NASA-GISS
institution = NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY 10025, USA

Registering your model

To register (or edit) information about your model, please title your issue "source_id registration of [acronym for your model]" and provide the following information:

'label' -- A short acronym that uniquely identifies your model (and distinguishes it from other versions of your model used in CMIP6). This label is limited to 16 characters in length.

'source_id' -- An identifier that should be identical to "label" but with forbidden characters either removed or replaced by a hyphen ("-"). The source_id will appear in the ESGF search interface and in filenames a subdirectory names. Restrict characters used in source_id to the following set: a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and "-".

'institution_id' -- list all institutions (by institution_id) who are responsible for one or more CMIP6 simulations with this model version. Additional institutions can be added to the list as needed, but only institutions registered (see above) may be included.

'release_year' -- this should be the year your model was first used in a scientific study. This year should reflect the "generation" of models rather than distinguishing between closely-related versions.

Although the additional information is not required, we encourage you to also provide the identifying descriptions of the component models comprising your coupled model. If a component is missing from your model, indicate this with "None". If a component is included but unnamed in your model (i.e., without an identifying name), indicate this with "unnamed". For a "named" component model specify first the name (presumably an acronym) then provide whatever additional information you think is appropriate, identifying the version and perhaps resolution of the component model (see examples below). Here are the components that should be defined (and if necessary and appropriate, you may add others):

"aerosol", "atmosphere", "atmospheric_chemistry", "land_ice", "land_surface", "ocean", "ocean_biogeochemistry", and "sea_ice".

Example: [title your issue: "source_id registration of ACCESS-1-0"]

aerosol = CLASSIC (v1.0)
atmosphere = HadGAM2 (r1.1; 192 x 145 N96; 38 levels; top level 39255m)    
atmospheric_chemistry = None
institution_id = CSIRO-BOM
label = ACCESS 1.0 (limited to 16 characters)
label_extended = ACCESS 1.0 (r105557) [Use this identifier to extend the 16 character limit for "label" to describe your model]
land_ice = None
land_surface = MOSES2.2    
ocean = ACCESS-OM (MOM4p1; tripolar primarily 1 deg latitude/longitude; 50 levels; top grid cell 0-10m)    
ocean_biogeochemistry = None
release_year = 2011
sea_ice = CICE4.1
source_id = ACCESS-1-0

The first 4 entries above are required; the additional entries are "free text". Please provide as much information as you think would be useful in identifying your model, but avoid details you are not certain are correct.

Raising other issues

Your issue "title" should begin with the name of the Controlled Vocabulary of interest and also include a terse indication of the issue (e.g., "activity_id -- add 'PMIP'").

WCRP-CMIP / CMIP6_CVs