Access to CORDEX-CMIP5 data

[larsbuntemeyer]

@jesusff mentioned that we might compare ERA5 downscaling to CORDEX-CMIP5 ERA-INTERIM.
@JavierDiezSierra Are you planning to move CORDEX ESGF data to jsc-cordex? Another option would be to upload it to our S3 bucket on AWS. I have some sponsorship to host more data, so it would be available globally and it would be easier to reproduce our analysis in the future independently from jsc-cordex.

[JavierDiezSierra]

@larsbuntemeyer Yes, my plan was to move ERA-INTERIM and CMIP5-CORDEX-EUR-11 to jsc-cordex and include the scripts in the evaltools repository. I believe this should not be very demanding in terms of storage requirements, as only the evaluation scenarios at monthly temporal aggregation are needed.

That said, it is fine with me if you think it is preferable to use AWS for storing future scenarios for other analyses, although I am not very familiar with AWS :-)

[larsbuntemeyer]

Thanks @JavierDiezSierra for collecting the data in jsc-cordex. I'll have a look into what we actually really need and might be able to also upload it to S3 for the future.

[JavierDiezSierra]

@larsbuntemeyer I'm preparing some functions to download CMIP5-CORDEX files using the esgf-pyclient Python package to make everything fully reproducible. I will have it committed during the week and then start the download. :-)

[larsbuntemeyer]

Thanks @JavierDiezSierra with the esgf-pyclient, you shouldn't need any credentials anymore if you access CORDEX data on ESGF (that seems to be relaxed).