cdb_query
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Python code to manage the analysis of climate model outputs published in the CMIP5 and CORDEX archives

This package provides simple tools to process data from the CMIP5 and CORDEX archives distributed 
by the Earth System Grid Federation.

This package was developed by F. B. Laliberte and P. J. Kushner as part of the "ExArch: Climate analytics
on distributed exascale data archives" G8 Research Initiative grant. http://proj.badc.rl.ac.uk/exarch

This version is a major rewrite from earlier versions.

Frederic Laliberte, Paul J. Kushner
Univerity of Toronto, 2014

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC/CRSNG) funded 
FBL and PJK during this project.


If using this code to retrieve and process data from the ESGF please cite:
Efficient, robust and timely analysis of Earth System Models: a database-query approach
F. Laliberté, Juckes, M., Denvil, S., Kushner, P. J., Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., Submitted.

Version History
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1.0.4: Fixed handling of CORDEX nodes, fixed validate for more than one experiment.

1.0.3: Minor changes to help.

1.0.3-rc4: Fixed a minor bug in 'validate' command were a model that should have been excluded was not.

1.0.3-rc2: Optimized the 'ask' command. Optimized the asynchronous processing for 'ask', 'validate' and 'apply'.
