Community Data Management Systems for CMIP6

The “Community Data Management System (CDMS)” was designed in the mid to late 90's. Its original intent was to automatically locate and extract metadata (i.e., variables, dimensions, grids, etc.) from collections of simulation runs and analysis files. CDMS has been redesigned to run in python 3 and allows regridding using the latest Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Application Programming Interface (API). CDMS is now using DASK which provides enhanced parallelism and analytics in a cluster or a multi-core processing computer. CDMS can read Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) directly from Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) using SSL certificates. CDMS documentation can be found on "read the docs" web site which includes its latest API. CDMS aims to incorporate 21st century technologies and integrate additional geoscience domains. In addition to conforming to the latest community standards and protocols, the new CDAT ingest package.