Charles Turner
Charles is a Research Software Engineer at ACCESS-NRI, where he works in the Model Evaluation and Diagnostics team, helping make it easier to access and analyse climate data. He previously worked in Air Quality, where he produced tools to analyse air pollution data, and has a PhD in Oceanography.
When not in front of a computer, he enjoys routinely injuring himself in a variety of sports.
Sessions
Climate models generate a lot of data - and this can make it hard for researchers to efficiently access and use the data they need. The solutions of yesteryear include standardised file structures, sqlite databases, and just knowing where to look. All of these work - to varying degrees - but can leave new users scratching their heads. In this talk, I'll outline how ACCESS-NRI built tooling around Intake and Intake-ESM to make it easy for climate researchers to access available data, share their own, and avoid writing the custom scripts over and over to work with the data their experiments generate.