The ES-DOC errata is the official platform which lists all CMIP6 related errata for CMIP6 model output. When selecting at this page EC-EARTH-CONSORTIUM in the drop-down menu of theInstitution ID column, all EC-Earth3 related ES-DOC reported errata are listed. However, because in practice often it takes a while before official ES-DOC errata are published, we launched this public Github errata tracer platform in order to track and trace EC-Earth related issues concerning the CMIP6 output which has been published on the ESGF nodes.
A part of the CMIP6 output errata issues is related to the EC-Earth post processing (ece2cmor3) and some are related to an issue in EC-earth3 but can be addressed in the post processing. In some cases we are able to correct the data without recmorising but by applying the cmor-fixer on the cmorised data directly. For instance the cmor-fixer has been used by the ESGF data managers in order to correct EC-Earth3 data on the ESGF nodes, avoiding any further large volume data transfer.
EC-Earth3 CMIP6 output issues which are related to ece2cmor3 are reported at an ece2cmor3 wiki EC-Earth3-ESGF-errata page. However, this table does not list errata issues which are caused by a mistake by a data producer: For instance when incorrect metadata is published like an incorrect branch_time or an incorrect ensemble member name. Note that the cmor-fixer has an option to correct for such metadata issues as well.
This ec-earth-errata-tracer platform can be used to report any EC-Earth3 CMIP6 output issue encountered on the ESGF nodes immediately and to trace the status. Partly this will concern links to the cmor-fixer and to ece2cmor3 which are both public assesible, at the other hand it will refer to EC-Earth issues on the non-public EC-Earth portal which is only open to the EC-Earth community.
At this ec-earth-errata-tracer platform we will open issues and trace them by a certain status (see procedure issue handling wiki page):
- new reported
- issue confirmed | issue not confirmed
- ES-DOC erratum created
- wil be fixed | won't be fixed
- implementing fix
- fix ready
- fix applied
- ES-DOC erratum closed