Jump to a web portal where you can search and browse information about a variety of Earth system models. Select "Simulaton Metadata" from the pull down menu and then select the facets you wish to search on. Once you have selected a result from the retrieved list, you will see "trackback" pages that show detailed metadata.

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What We Do

The Curator project collaboratively develops software infrastructure to support end-to-end modeling in the Earth sciences. It spans the gaps between modeling and data services, using metadata to exhaustively document models and datasets and to automate routine processes and sophisticated workflows.

The Curator collaborators and their partners are working toward computational environments which are accessible, organized, and populated with artifacts which are thoroughly described and categorized - curated so that generations of scientists, students, and others can study and use them.

The Curator project is now the umbrella for a variety of different projects, some highly exploratory and some more production oriented, some small and some large. See our Projects pages to read more about the work that we do.

A Little Background

Earth System Curator began in 2005 under NSF funding. The Curator partners developed a prototype portal for a colloquium entitled Numerical Techniques for Global Atmospheric Models, which focused on the comparison of different atmospheric model dynamical cores. The Curator portal enabled participants to easily search and browse comprehensive metadata.

NASA and NOAA provided support to continue the project. The Curator team collaborated with NCAR, PCMDI, the METAFOR project and others to integrate the Curator metadata display into the Earth System Grid. This display will be used by the 5th Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, an important part of the next IPCC Assessment Report.

A new Curator project was funded by NSF in 2009. The CoG project (short for Commodity Governance) focuses on creating virtual workspaces that bring together "communities of commmunities" to work on Earth system model development, intercomparison projects, and data analysis.