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Development and exploitation of a controlled vocabulary in support of climate modelling

Moine, M.-P., Valcke, S., Lawrence, B. N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9262-7860, Pascoe, C., Ford, R. W., Alias, A., Balaji, V., Bentley, P., Devine, G., Callaghan, S. A. and Guilyardi, E. (2014) Development and exploitation of a controlled vocabulary in support of climate modelling. Geoscientific Model Development, 7 (2). pp. 479-493. ISSN 1991-9603

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To link to this item DOI: 10.5194/gmd-7-479-2014

Abstract/Summary

There are three key components for developing a metadata system: a container structure laying out the key semantic issues of interest and their relationships; an extensible controlled vocabulary providing possible content; and tools to create and manipulate that content. While metadata systems must allow users to enter their own information, the use of a controlled vocabulary both imposes consistency of definition and ensures comparability of the objects described. Here we describe the controlled vocabulary (CV) and metadata creation tool built by the METAFOR project for use in the context of describing the climate models, simulations and experiments of the fifth Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5). The CV and resulting tool chain introduced here is designed for extensibility and reuse and should find applicability in many more projects.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > NCAS
Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Meteorology
ID Code:37827
Publisher:European Geosciences Union

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