Collaboration

ACME Collaboration Policy and Approvals (outdated now)

E3SM Phase 2 Collaboration Policy 

As of E3SM first data release in April 2018, E3SM model source became 'open development' and is now freely available to everyone. This includes developmental code as well as versioned code release. Data from all major campaign simulations will also be made publicly available through ESGF archives. There can be few months delay between production of the data and its publication to ESG in order to give the E3SM scientists a chance to publish an overview paper on the data. The code support covers the code configuration that was used in E3SM major simulation campaigns for which the data was already released to the public. The code support guarantees that the code will run an all the E3SM supported machines in DOE LC centers.

Currently, (Nov 2018), the E3SM version v1.0 is supported with the standard (lower resolution) configuration that was used in the water cycle simulation campaign and CMIP6 DECK configuration. 

The collaboration request is needed to grant permission to access E3SM internal Confluence site that contains extensive, internal, documentation or to gain access to not yet released E3SM data, or to request deeper collaboration with E3SM.

The collaboration agreement should cover

• Explanation what access is being sought (Confluence and/or what specific non-released data access)
• What research will be done with the code and/or data
• the agreement to acknowledge E3SM for using it's data or code, it may ask for any additional support, or to access E3SM data that is not yet available to the public. The collaboration should include the agreement on possible joint publication from the research, and should specify expected timeline for all publications from this research and possibly agree to include some E3SM authors. 

External projects like ecosystem projects, SFA's that use E3SM data or code, or other collaborators are expected to submit a collaboration request.

Requesting Collaboration and Approval Process

The prospectus collaborator should submit a collaboration request by email to E3SM Executive Committee (EC) (e3sm-exec@llnl.gov).  If the EC has no problem with the agreements, then it will be put on Confluence and an email will be sent to the leadership team to ask for comments within a week. If there are no concerns from the leadership team, then the agreements are automatically approved after one week.  

Collaboration Agreement Template - need to be developed

coming soon....