WCRP Compliance Checker Plugins

This IOOS/compliance-checker plugins checks compliance with WCRP Projects specifications:

Installation

Pip

To install IOOS compliance-checker and the wcrp plugins :

pip install cc-plugin-wcrp

See the IOOS/compliance-checker for additional Installation notes.

If you have an old version of esgvoc, you should upgrade it:

pip install esgvoc --upgrade

Then, use the commands below to activate the project you want:

esgvoc use project@latest universe@latest

for example for CMIP6 :

esgvoc use cmip6@latest universe@latest

The projects currently available in both 'cc_plugin_wcrp' and 'esgvoc' are:

cmip6, cmip6plus, cmip7, and cordex-cmip6.

Usage

compliance-checker -l

This command displays the checkers already present on the iOS compliance checker in addition to the recently installed WCRP plugins :

 - wcrp_cmip6 (x.x.x)
 - wcrp_cordex_cmip6 (x.x.x)

To run the plugins on IOOS CC, use the following command:

compliance-checker -t ''plugin'' path/to/data/file.nc

Example for WCRP CMIP6 plugin :

compliance-checker -t wcrp_cmip6:1.0  path/to/data/CMIP6/CMIP/IPSL/IPSL-CM5A2-INCA/historical/r1i1p1f1/Amon/pr/gr/v20240619/pr_Amon_IPSL-CM5A2-INCA_historical_r1i1p1f1_gr_185001-201412.nc

By default, the output is in plain text, but you can specify other formats with the -f option :

compliance-checker -t ''plugin'' path/to/data/file.nc -f json
compliance-checker -t ''plugin'' path/to/data/file.nc -f html