8  Handy resources

• CDO reference card, listing common operators

• hotrstuff, an upcoming R package that’s currently in development (as of December 2024) to facilitate the rapid download, wrangling and processing of ESM output from CMIP. Keep an eye on this - a lot of the functions in this package correspond to tasks we learned today!

• climate4R, a bundle of R packages for transparent climate data access, post-processing (including data collocation and bias correction / downscaling) and visualization.

• A great explainer from CarbonBrief on how climate models work, and another explainer on CMIP6 more broadly.

• A good news article on the limitations of climate modelling efforts.