User guide

This guide is for modelers preparing an ISMIP7 submission: what the checker looks at, what its findings mean, and what the data request asks for. If you have not installed the checker yet, start with Getting started.

Contents

• Installation
  • From conda-forge
  • Updating
  • From source
• Running the checker
  • Options
  • What it writes
  • Exit status
• What the checker checks
  • 1. Naming
  • 2. Numerical
  • 3. Spatial
  • 4. Time
  • 5. Consistency
  • 6. Attributes
  • How far a file gets
  • Where the criteria come from
• Errors and warnings
  • Variables your model does not represent
  • Missing values and masks
  • Checks that compare files
  • Value ranges
• Time encoding
  • Snapshot variables (x,y,z,t, e.g. litemp)
  • Lookup tables
• The data request
  • Variables
  • Value ranges
  • Missing values
  • Experiments