Awesome Climate Research (ACR)

A curated list of awesome things related to climate research

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This list is not supposed to be comprehensive. It is curated and only focuses on “awesome” content, i.e. the goal of this list is to have a low noise-to-signal ratio.

Surely, “awesomeness” can be subjective, but some basic rules can be applied to know what is worth listing or not, for instance:

• Is this resource/project truly informative/improving on the status quo?
• Would the community benefit from knowing this resource?
• Is this resource well written/implemented?
• etc.

Contents

• Awesome Climate Research (ACR)
  • Contents
  • Climate laws
  • Geoengineering
  • Climate economics
  • Climate computing and modeling

Climate laws

• Climate Change Laws of the World Database, by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
• Climate Law Blog by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School
• Stanford Environmental Law Journal (Archives), by Stanford Law School
• Essential Readings in Environmental Law, by the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law

Geoengineering

• The Economic Diplomacy of Geoengineering, by Thomas C. Schelling
• The Paradox of Climate Engineering, by Michael Zürn and Stefan Schäfer
• Disentangling the rhetoric of public goods from their externalities: The case of climate engineering, by Robert Holahan and Prakash Kashwan
• Geoengineering Monitor / Geoengineering Map, by ETC Group and the Heinrich Boell Foundation
• Fuel To The Fire, How Geoengineering Threatens to Entrench Fossil Fuels and Accelerate the Climate Crisis, by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)
• Engineering Solar Radiation Is a Crazy Idea, by Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates
• Geoengineering websites, by Geoengineering global

Climate economics

• STERN REVIEW: The Economics of Climate Change (UK National Archives)
• Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP)
• Research & Degrowth
• Integrated Assessment Models of Climate Change, by William Nordhaus
• Doughnut Economics / Doughnut (economic model)

Climate computing and modeling

• Unidata software (Github)
• Climate Modelling Alliance (Github), by the California Institute of Technology
• EO learn: Earth observation processing framework for machine learning in Python, by SentinelHub
• SciTools (Github): Open tools for the analysis and visualisation of Earth science data
• MODFLOW 6: USGS Modular Hydrologic Model
  • MODFLOW6 (Github)
  • Flopy (Python interface to modflow)
• PySolar (Github): Python libraries for simulating the irradiation of any point on earth by the sun
• PySTEPS (Github): Python library for probabilistic precipitation nowcasting
• LandLab (Github): Python package for numerical modeling of Earth surface dynamics
• Climate4R: R Framework for Climate Data Access and Post-processing, by the Santander Meteorology Group (UC-CSIC)
• Earth System Modeling Framework (Github): Suite of software tools for developing high-performance, multi-component Earth science modeling applications.
• Veros: The versatile ocean simulator, by the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
• Energy Exascale Earth System Model (Github)
• Earth System Community Modeling Portal, by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
• Climlab: Python package for process-oriented climate modeling
• Open Global Glacier Model (Github): Open source glacier model in Python
• OpenDrift: Open source framework for ocean trajectory modelling
• ESMValTool (Github): Community diagnostics and performance metrics tool for the evaluation of Earth System Models (ESMs)
• Oce (Github): R package for oceanographic processing
• CliMT: Climate Modelling and Diagnostics Toolkit. Python library which provides a modular and intuitive approach to writing numerical models of the climate system.
• Maja: Atmospheric correction and cloud screening software (Level-2A)
• ParFlow (Github): Numerical model that simulates the hydrologic cycle from the bedrock to the top of the plant canopy
• Isca (Github): Framework for the construction of models of the global circulation of the atmosphere of Earth and other planets, usable in Python.
• GEOSX: Framework focused on enabling streamlined development of physics simulations on high performance computing platforms.
• MITgcm (Github): Numerical model designed for study of the atmosphere, ocean, and climate.
• Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM) (Github): Open-source modelling framework for ice sheets and glaciers
• Joint Global Change Research Institute
  • Hector (Refs and Github): Object-oriented, simple global climate carbon-cycle model
• Space Physics: Space Physics modeling and analysis
  • LOWTRAN: Atmospheric absorption extinction, scatter and irradiance model

Looking for more awesomeness?

• Awesome Open Atmospheric, Ocean, and Climate Science
• Awesome Open Geoscience
• Open Sustainable Technology

License

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