Metafor Dissemination materials

Newsletters

•  Newsletter 10 - September 2011
•  Newsletter 9 - June 2011
•  Newsletter 8 - March 2011
•  Newsletter 7 - December 2010
•  Newsletter 6 - September 2010
•  Newsletter 5 - June 2010
•  Newsletter 4 - March 2010
•  Newsletter 3 - December 2009
•  Newsletter 2 - September 2009
•  Newsletter 1 - June 2009

Leaflets

•  CMIP5 questionnaire and controlled vocabulary leaflet
•  CIM leaflet

Open Dissemination Workshop webcasts

•  Webcasts on Metafor wiki

The 'disk 1 presentation' and 'disk 2 presentation' open up a new window which contains a 'play presentation' button. If you click on it it opens yet another window where you will see the presentation. The video files are also attached to the page separately.

•  Webcasts on the STFC site

Search for "Metafor" to return the links for the webcasts.

Publication list

• “Metafor: managing metadata for climate models” Sarah Callaghan, Reinhard Budich, Gerry Devine, Eric Guilyardi, Bryan Lawrence and Sophie Valcke, Zero-In magazine, Issue 3: Successful case studies of eScience/eResearch projects in Europe and globally  http://www.beliefproject.org/zero-in/zero-in-third-edition/metafor-managing-metadata-for-climate-models
• METAFOR was featured as an article in the October 2010 edition of International Innovation ( http://www.research-europe.com/magazine/PREVIEW/ENVIRONMENT/OCT10/index.html)
• The Metafor CMIP5 questionnaire was also featured in the March 2011 Using NERC Science newsletter ( http://www.nerc.ac.uk/using/news/newsletters/2011/march.pdf) .
• Eric Guilyardi, V. Balaji, Sarah Callaghan, Cecelia DeLuca?, Gerry Devine, Sébastien Denvil, Rupert Ford, Charlotte Pascoe, Michael Lautenschlager, Bryan Lawrence, Lois Steenman-Clark, Sophie Valcke, “The CMIP5 model and simulation documentation: a new standard for climate modelling metadata”. CLIVAR Exchanges Special Issue No. 56, Vol. 16, No.2, May 2011 ( http://www.clivar.org/publications/exchanges/Exchanges_56.pdf)
• Callaghan et al “The METAFOR project: preserving data through metadata standards for climate models and simulations”
  • accepted as part of the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM for the event of 1st International Digital Preservation Interoperability Framework (DPIF) Symposium. ISBN: 978-1-4503-0110-7.
• A contribution of approximately 10 pages to Earth System Modelling Volume 2, Recent Developments and Projects, Springer

Papers which will be submitted to a special issue of Geoscientific Model Development (GMD) for CMIP5 software infrastructure

• Lawrence et al, “Describing Earth System Simulations”
• Moine et al, “Development and Exploitation of a Controlled Vocabulary in support of Climate Modelling”

In production:

• BAMS Nowcast article
  • “Making climate model metadata accessible to the wider research community: the METAFOR project and the CMIP5 questionnaire”