Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF)
The Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) is an international, distributed data infrastructure that archives and serves climate model output and observational data, including the CMIP model ensembles. ESGF exposes dataset metadata such as source_id, experiment_id, variable_id, and activity_id through federated search nodes and APIs, enabling discovery and download of climate simulation datasets.
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