Apache Open Climate Workbench (OCW)

Apache Open Climate Workbench

Apache Open Climate Workbench is an effort to develop software that performs climate model evaluation using model outputs from a variety of different sources the Earth System Grid Federation, the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment, the U.S. National Climate Assessment and the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program and temporal/spatial scales with remote sensing data from NASA, NOAA and other agencies. The toolkit includes capabilities for rebinning, metrics computation and visualization.

Apache Open Climate Workbench 1.3.0 Released

April 23rd, 2018

The Apache Open Climate Workbench team is pleased to announce the 1.3.0 release! This release addresses 46 issues, bugs, and improvements. For a full breakdown of the work packaged into this release please see the release report.

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We urge all users to upgrade to this version immediately. Please let us know how you are using OCW over on the community mailing lists.

Finally, please see our 1.4.0 Roadmap for an idea of the next line of development.

Apache Open Climate Workbench 1.2.0 Released

April 24th, 2017

The Apache Open Climate Workbench team is pleased to announce the 1.2.0 release! This release addresses over 50 issues, bugs, and improvements. For a full breakdown of the work packaged into this release please see the release report.

In particular, OCW packaging has been improved significantly. Users can now use OCW via our Conda Package. we also provide a Pypi package for those using PIP.

Download

We urge all users to upgrade to this version immediately. Please let us know how you are using OCW over on the community mailing lists.

Finally, please see our 1.3.0 Roadmap for an idea of the next line of development.

Apache Open Climate Workbench @ESIP Tech Drive Webinar

September 8, 2016

OCW featured at the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Information Technology and Interoperability Committee's **September 2016 Tech Dive Webinar series**.

Presenters included both Dr. Lewis John McGibbney and Dr. Huikyo Lee with OCW and its use within NASA JPL's Regional Climate Modeling and Evaluation System featuring for the hour!

Get the entire recording and slides from the **Webinar Page**.

Apache Open Climate Workbench 1.1.0 Released

July 27, 2016

The Apache Open Climate Workbench team is pleased to announce the 1.1.0 release! This release addresses a whopping 140 issues, bugs, and improvements. For a full breakdown of the work packaged into this release please see the release report.

In particular, OCW packaging has been improved significantly. Users can now use OCW via our Conda Package. we also provide a Pypi package for those using PIP.

Download

We urge all users to upgrade to this version immediately. Please let us know how you are using OCW over on the community mailing lists.

Finally, please see our 1.2.0 Roadmap for an idea of the next line of development.

Apache OCW 1.0.0 Released

September 24, 2015

The Apache Open Climate Workbench team is pleased to announce the 1.0.0 release! This release addresses no less than 52 issues, bugs, and improvements. For a full breakdown of the work packaged into this release please see the release report.

Some important features this release packs include statistical downscaling capabilities such as Delta Method, Quantile Mapping and Quantile Regression, configuration driven evaluation improvements, better plot support to config based evaluations and a brand new module to calculate area mean and standard deviation with given subregion information.

Download

We urge all users to upgrade to this version immediately. Please let us know how you are using OCW over on the community mailing lists.

Finally, please see our 1.1 Roadmap for an idea of the next line of development.

Apache OCW 0.5 Released

January 14, 2015

The Apache Open Climate Workbench team is pleased to announce the 0.5 release! This is our last point-oh release before we progress to 1.0 addressing over 40 issues, bugs, and improvements.

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Check out the release notes as well for a full breakdown of all of the features and improvements bundled into this release.

Apache OCW at 2014 AGU Fall Meeting

December 15, 2014

What a way to top off a year other than being represented at one of the premier international science conferences! During the month of December in 2014 OCW was represented by a number of individuals at the American Geophysical Union's Annual Fall Meeting at the bustling Mosconi Centre in beautiful San Francisco. With nearly 24,000 attendees, the AGU Fall Meeting is the largest Earth and space science meeting in the world.

OCW featured presentations included:

We look forward to future direct engagements with the scientific community at large, especially at AGU 2015!

Apache Open Climate Workbench 0.4 Released

September 16, 2014

The Apache Open Climate Workbench team is pleased to announce the 0.4 release! This is a huge release for OCW with over 170 issues, bugs, and improvements included and represents almost a year of development effort from the team. The latest release can be downloaded (as .tgz and/or .zip) from our downloads page

Check out the release notes as well for a full breakdown of all of the features and improvements bundled into this release.

Open Climate Workbench @ 3rd Lund Regional-Scale Climate Modeling Workshop, Lund, Sweden

June 18, 2014

Memebers of the OCW community (Paul Ramirez, Kyo Lee, and Paul Loikith) led a half-day RCMES/OCW training session at the 3rd Lund Regional-Scale Climate Modeling Workshop in Lund, Sweden.

The session was full with 23 attendees from 14 different countries. The tutorial involved an introduction to using the RCMES toolkit for model evaluation and information on how to be involved with OCW development. This was the first fully interactive hands-on training session for the RCMES project from which Apache OCW stems. Materials from the tutorial will be available online at the RCMES site.

Open Climate Workbench Guest Post on opensource.com

June 17, 2014

As part of Open Science Week OCW featured a guest post in Redhat's ever popular opensource.com blogging site with a post entitled What's open source got to do with Earth science? NASA explains.

Open Climate Workbench Graduates!

March 03, 2014

The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Open Climate Workbench™ as a Top-Level Project. For more information, see the following resources:

0.3-Incubating has been released

October 12, 2013

The Apache Open Climate Workbench team is happy to announce the 0.3-incubating release. Over 80 changes, bug fixes, and improvements are included in this release. Grab the latest code from here!

0.2-Incubating has been released

August 19, 2013

The Apache Open Climate Workbench team is happy to present the 0.2-incubating release. Over 40 issues, bugs, and improvements are included in this release. The source code for this release is available here.

0.1-Incubating has been released

July 29, 2013

The Apache Open Climate Workbench team is proud to announce our first software release at Apache. The team resolved over 140 issues in this release and we are already pressing forward with work on the next release. The 0.1-incubating code source can be found here. If you would rather work on the trunk version of the code head over to the source code page.