WCRP-CMIP · znichollscr · Nov 20, 2025 · Nov 20, 2025 · Nov 20, 2025 · Nov 21, 2025
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+venv
diff --git a/activity/aerchemmip.json b/activity/aerchemmip.json
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
 {
     "@context": "000_context.jsonld",
-    "type": "activity",
     "id": "aerchemmip",
-    "name": "AerChemMIP",
-    "cmip_acronym": "AerChemMIP",
-    "long_name": "Aerosols and Chemistry Model Intercomparison Project",
-    "url": null,
+    "type": "activity",
+    "description": "Aerosols and chemistry model intercomparison project: exploration of aerosol chemistry.",
     "drs_name": "AerChemMIP"
-}
+}
diff --git a/activity/c4mip.json b/activity/c4mip.json
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
 {
     "@context": "000_context.jsonld",
-    "type": "activity",
     "id": "c4mip",
-    "name": "C4MIP",
-    "cmip_acronym": "C4MIP",
-    "long_name": "Coupled Climate Carbon Cycle Model Intercomparison Project",
-    "url": null,
+    "type": "activity",
+    "description": "Coupled climate carbon cycle model intercomparison project: exploration of the response of the coupled carbon-climate system.",
     "drs_name": "C4MIP"
-}
+}
diff --git a/activity/cfmip.json b/activity/cfmip.json
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
 {
     "@context": "000_context.jsonld",
-    "type": "activity",
     "id": "cfmip",
-    "name": "CFMIP",
-    "cmip_acronym": "CFMIP",
-    "long_name": "Cloud Feedback Model Intercomparison Project",
-    "url": null,
+    "type": "activity",
+    "description": "Cloud feedback model intercomparison project. Focussed primarily on cloud feedbacks with a secondary focus on understanding of response to forcing, model biases, circulation, regional-scale precipitation, and non-linear changes.",
     "drs_name": "CFMIP"
-}
+}
diff --git a/activity/cmip.json b/activity/cmip.json
@@ -2,13 +2,6 @@
     "@context": "000_context.jsonld",
     "id": "cmip",
     "type": "activity",
-    "description": "CMIP core common experiments i.e. the DECK (Diagnostic, Evaluation and Characterization of Klima)",
-    "drs_name": "CMIP",
-    "experiments": [
-        "esm-hist",
-        "esm-picontrol",
-        "historical",
-        "picontrol"
-    ],
-    "urls": ["https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-6671-2025"]
+    "description": "CMIP core common experiments i.e. the DECK (Diagnostic, Evaluation and Characterization of Klima).",
+    "drs_name": "CMIP"
 }
diff --git a/activity/damip.json b/activity/damip.json
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
 {
     "@context": "000_context.jsonld",
-    "type": "activity",
     "id": "damip",
-    "name": "DAMIP",
-    "cmip_acronym": "DAMIP",
-    "long_name": "Detection and Attribution Model Intercomparison Project",
-    "url": null,
+    "type": "activity",
+    "description": "Detection and attribution model intercomparison project: exploration of the role of individual forcings (both anthropogenic and natural) in past and future climate change.",
     "drs_name": "DAMIP"
-}
+}
diff --git a/activity/geomip.json b/activity/geomip.json
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
 {
     "@context": "000_context.jsonld",
-    "type": "activity",
     "id": "geomip",
-    "name": "GeoMIP",
-    "cmip_acronym": "GeoMIP",
-    "long_name": "Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project",
-    "url": null,
+    "type": "activity",
+    "description": "Geoengineering model intercomparison project: exploration of the climate response to solar radiation manipulation.",
     "drs_name": "GeoMIP"
-}
+}
diff --git a/activity/lmip.json b/activity/lmip.json
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
 {
     "@context": "000_context.jsonld",
-    "type": "activity",
     "id": "lmip",
-    "name": "LMIP",
-    "cmip_acronym": "LMIP",
-    "long_name": "Land-offline Model Intercomparison Project",
-    "url": null,
+    "type": "activity",
+    "description": "Land surface, snow and soil moisture model intercomparison project: assessment of land surface, snow and soil moisture feedbacks on climate variability and climate change, and diagnosis of systematic biases in the land modules of Earth system models (ESMs).",
     "drs_name": "LMIP"
-}
+}
diff --git a/activity/pmip.json b/activity/pmip.json
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
 {
     "@context": "000_context.jsonld",
-    "type": "activity",
     "id": "pmip",
-    "name": "PMIP",
-    "cmip_acronym": "PMIP",
-    "long_name": "Palaeoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project",
-    "url": null,
+    "type": "activity",
+    "description": "Palaeoclimate modelling intercomparison project: assessment of paleoclimate i.e. climate thousands of years or more in the past.",
     "drs_name": "PMIP"
-}
+}
diff --git a/activity/rfmip.json b/activity/rfmip.json
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
 {
     "@context": "000_context.jsonld",
-    "type": "activity",
     "id": "rfmip",
-    "name": "RFMIP",
-    "cmip_acronym": "RFMIP",
-    "long_name": "Radiative Forcing Model Intercomparison Project",
-    "url": null,
+    "type": "activity",
+    "description": " Radiative Forcing Model Intercomparison Project: characterisation of radiative forcing within models.",
     "drs_name": "RFMIP"
-}
+}
diff --git a/activity/scenariomip.json b/activity/scenariomip.json
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@
     "@context": "000_context.jsonld",
     "id": "scenariomip",
     "type": "activity",
-    "description": "Future scenario experiments. Exploration of the future climate under a (selected) range of possible boundary conditions",
+    "description": "Future scenario experiments. Exploration of the future climate under a (selected) range of possible boundary conditions.",
     "drs_name": "ScenarioMIP"
 }
diff --git a/experiment/1pctco2-bgc.json b/experiment/1pctco2-bgc.json
@@ -2,32 +2,22 @@
     "@context": "000_context.jsonld",
     "id": "1pctco2-bgc",
     "type": "experiment",
-    "experiment_id": "1pctCO2-bgc",
-    "activity_id": [
-        "c4mip"
-    ],
+    "description": "Biogeochemically coupled simulation (i.e. the carbon cycle only 'sees' the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide, not any change in temperature) of a 1% per year increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. All other conditions are kept the same as piControl.",
+    "drs_name": "1pctCO2-bgc",
+    "start_timestamp": null,
+    "end_timestamp": null,
+    "activity": "c4mip",
     "additional_allowed_model_components": [
         "aer",
         "chem"
     ],
-    "description": "Biogeochemically-coupled specified concentration simulation in which CO2 increases at a rate of 1% per year until quadrupling",
-    "end_year": null,
-    "experiment": "biogeochemically-coupled version of 1 percent per year increasing CO2 experiment",
-    "min_number_yrs_per_sim": "150",
-    "parent_activity_id": [
-        "cmip"
-    ],
-    "parent_experiment_id": [
-        "picontrol"
-    ],
+    "branch_information": "Branch from `piControl` at a time of your choosing",
+    "min_ensemble_size": 1,
+    "parent_activity": "cmip",
+    "parent_experiment": "picontrol",
     "required_model_components": [
         "aogcm",
         "bgc"
     ],
-    "start_year": null,
-    "sub_experiment_id": [
-        "none"
-    ],
-    "tier": "1",
-    "drs_name": "1pctCO2-bgc"
-}
+    "tier": 1
+}
diff --git a/experiment/1pctco2-rad.json b/experiment/1pctco2-rad.json
@@ -2,32 +2,22 @@
     "@context": "000_context.jsonld",
     "id": "1pctco2-rad",
     "type": "experiment",
-    "experiment_id": "1pctCO2-rad",
-    "activity_id": [
-        "c4mip"
-    ],
+    "description": "Radiatively coupled simulation (i.e. the carbon cycle only 'sees' the increase in temperature, not any change in atmospheric carbon dioxide) of a 1% per year increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. All other conditions are kept the same as piControl.",
+    "drs_name": "1pctCO2-rad",
+    "start_timestamp": null,
+    "end_timestamp": null,
+    "activity": "c4mip",
     "additional_allowed_model_components": [
         "aer",
         "chem"
     ],
-    "description": "Radiatively-coupled specified concentration simulation in which CO2 increases at a rate of 1% per year until quadrupling",
-    "end_year": null,
-    "experiment": "radiatively-coupled version of 1 percent per year increasing CO2 experiment",
-    "min_number_yrs_per_sim": "150",
-    "parent_activity_id": [
-        "cmip"
-    ],
-    "parent_experiment_id": [
-        "picontrol"
-    ],
+    "branch_information": "Branch from `piControl` at a time of your choosing",
+    "min_ensemble_size": 1,
+    "parent_activity": "cmip",
+    "parent_experiment": "picontrol",
     "required_model_components": [
         "aogcm",
         "bgc"
     ],
-    "start_year": null,
-    "sub_experiment_id": [
-        "none"
-    ],
-    "tier": "2",
-    "drs_name": "1pctCO2-rad"
-}
+    "tier": 1
+}
diff --git a/experiment/1pctco2.json b/experiment/1pctco2.json
@@ -2,32 +2,22 @@
     "@context": "000_context.jsonld",
     "id": "1pctco2",
     "type": "experiment",
-    "experiment_id": "1pctCO2",
-    "activity_id": [
-        "cmip"
-    ],
+    "description": "1% per year increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. All other conditions are kept the same as piControl.",
+    "drs_name": "1pctCO2",
+    "start_timestamp": null,
+    "end_timestamp": null,
+    "activity": "cmip",
     "additional_allowed_model_components": [
         "aer",
         "chem",
         "bgc"
     ],
-    "description": "DECK: 1pctCO2",
-    "end_year": null,
-    "experiment": "1 percent per year increase in CO2",
-    "min_number_yrs_per_sim": 150,
-    "parent_activity_id": [
-        "cmip"
-    ],
-    "parent_experiment_id": [
-        "picontrol"
-    ],
+    "branch_information": "Branch from `piControl` at a time of your choosing",
+    "min_ensemble_size": 1,
+    "parent_activity": "cmip",
+    "parent_experiment": "picontrol",
     "required_model_components": [
         "aogcm"
     ],
-    "start_year": null,
-    "sub_experiment_id": [
-        "none"
-    ],
-    "tier": 1,
-    "drs_name": "1pctCO2"
-}
+    "tier": 1
+}
diff --git a/experiment/abrupt-0p5xco2.json b/experiment/abrupt-0p5xco2.json
@@ -2,32 +2,22 @@
     "@context": "000_context.jsonld",
     "id": "abrupt-0p5xco2",
     "type": "experiment",
-    "experiment_id": "abrupt-0p5xCO2",
-    "activity_id": [
-        "cfmip"
-    ],
+    "description": "Abrupt halving of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. All other conditions are kept the same as piControl.",
+    "drs_name": "abrupt-0p5xCO2",
+    "start_timestamp": null,
+    "end_timestamp": null,
+    "activity": "cfmip",
     "additional_allowed_model_components": [
         "aer",
         "chem",
         "bgc"
     ],
-    "description": "Identical to the DECK abrupt-4xCO2, but at 0.5xCO2",
-    "end_year": null,
-    "experiment": "abrupt halving of CO2",
-    "min_number_yrs_per_sim": "150",
-    "parent_activity_id": [
-        "cmip"
-    ],
-    "parent_experiment_id": [
-        "picontrol"
-    ],
+    "branch_information": "Branch from `piControl` at a time of your choosing",
+    "min_ensemble_size": 1,
+    "parent_activity": "cmip",
+    "parent_experiment": "picontrol",
     "required_model_components": [
         "aogcm"
     ],
-    "start_year": null,
-    "sub_experiment_id": [
-        "none"
-    ],
-    "tier": "2",
-    "drs_name": "abrupt-0p5xCO2"
-}
+    "tier": 1
+}
diff --git a/experiment/abrupt-127k.json b/experiment/abrupt-127k.json
@@ -2,33 +2,23 @@
     "@context": "000_context.jsonld",
     "id": "abrupt-127k",
     "type": "experiment",
-    "experiment_id": "abrupt-127k",
-    "activity_id": [
-        "pmip"
-    ],
+    "description": "Simulation to examine the response to orbital and greenhouse gas concentration changes associated with the last interglacial (127 000 years before present).",
+    "drs_name": "abrupt-127k",
+    "start_timestamp": null,
+    "end_timestamp": null,
+    "min_number_yrs_per_sim": 100.0,
+    "activity": "pmip",
     "additional_allowed_model_components": [
-        "aogcm",
         "aer",
-        "bgc",
-        "chem"
-    ],
-    "description": "Conceptually similar to abrupt-4xCO2 DECK experiment, except that orbital forcing (eccentricity, obliquity, length of perihelion) and greenhouse gas concentrations as per PMIP4 lig127k (Otto-Bliesner et al., 2017; also refer to Sime et al. in prep.) are abruptly changed from those of piControl, that also serves as an initial state, to their configuration of 127,000 years ago, with high boreal spring to autumn insolation leading to low sea-ice in the Arctic. AOGCM initialized from a spun-up piControl with constant-in-time forcing of orbital parameters and greenhouse gas concentrations indicative of 127,000 years before present; use of components AER, CHEM, BGC is allowed, yet it must be ensured that relevant greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere stay constant at the specified values throughout the simulation; relevant references: Otto-Bliesner et al. (2017), https://gmd.copernicus.org/articles/10/3979/2017/; Guarino et al (2020), https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0865-2; Sime et al. (2023), https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/19/883/2023/",
-    "end_year": null,
-    "experiment": "abrupt imposure of the orbit and greenhouse gases of 127 ka before present",
-    "min_number_yrs_per_sim": "100",
-    "parent_activity_id": [
-        "cmip"
-    ],
-    "parent_experiment_id": [
-        "picontrol"
+        "chem",
+        "bgc"
     ],
+    "branch_information": "Branch from `piControl` at a time of your choosing",
+    "min_ensemble_size": 1,
+    "parent_activity": "cmip",
+    "parent_experiment": "picontrol",
     "required_model_components": [
         "aogcm"
     ],
-    "start_year": null,
-    "sub_experiment_id": [
-        "none"
-    ],
-    "tier": "1",
-    "drs_name": "abrupt-127k"
-}
+    "tier": 1
+}