ClimateScience Tier 3 — Family Indexes
This is the Tier 3 (T3) Map of Content (MOC) for the ClimateScience library. T3 notes are deep, catalog-style references — long enumerations of models, datasets, instruments, and registries that a working climate agent needs to look up but that don’t belong in a Tier 1 topic primer (see _index) or a Tier 2 specialty page. T3 answers “what are all the CMIP-class models / reanalysis products / IAMs / carbon registries” rather than “how does one specific X work.” It exists so the named-entity facts that Tier 1 and Tier 2 reference — model centers, sensor specs, dataset resolutions, registry rules — have a single canonical home instead of being duplicated across primers.
Written catalogs
| Catalog | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|
| CMIP / ESM model catalog | WRITTEN | cmip-and-earth-system-models — Earth-system models by modeling center (NCAR CESM, GFDL, UKMO HadGEM/UKESM, MPI-ESM, IPSL, MIROC, CanESM, NorESM, EC-Earth, ACCESS); CMIP5/6/7 participation; atmosphere/ocean grid resolution; ECS and TCR per model |
| Earth-observation satellite & reanalysis catalog | WRITTEN | earth-observation-and-reanalysis-catalog — missions/instruments by variable (MODIS, VIIRS, Landsat, Sentinel-1/2/3/5P, GOES-R, OCO-2/3, GOSAT, GRACE/GRACE-FO, ICESat-2, CERES, SMAP, TROPOMI) plus reanalysis products (ERA5/ERA5-Land, MERRA-2, JRA-55/JRA-3Q, NCEP/NCAR, Argo, HadCRUT/GISTEMP/Berkeley Earth, ocean reanalyses); orbit/swath/resolution, vertical levels, temporal coverage, assimilation scheme |
| Integrated Assessment Model (IAM) catalog | WRITTEN | integrated-assessment-models-catalog — IAMs by family and use (MESSAGE-GLOBIOM, IMAGE, REMIND-MAgPIE, GCAM, WITCH, AIM/CGE; cost-benefit DICE/FUND/PAGE); SSP-RCP scenario coverage, sectoral coverage, SCC outputs; cross-ref ipcc-scenarios-and-integrated-assessment |
| Carbon-market & climate-finance catalog | WRITTEN | carbon-markets-and-climate-finance-catalog — compliance markets (EU ETS, California CCA, RGGI, UK ETS, China national ETS, K-ETS) and voluntary registries (Verra VCS, Gold Standard, ACR, CAR, Puro.earth) plus climate-finance instruments (green/sustainability-linked/transition bonds, blended-finance vehicles, GCF/GEF facilities, catastrophe bonds, debt-for-nature swaps); methodology families, unit definitions, price benchmarks, issuance standards (ICMA GBP, EU GBS); cross-ref climate-finance-and-investment |
Planned catalogs
All scoped catalogs have now been written — none remain PLANNED.
Cross-references
ClimateScience T3 catalogs link back to T1/T2 pages for context:
- _compare_climate-models-and-frameworks ← ESM model catalog (T3, written)
- ipcc-scenarios-and-integrated-assessment ← IAM catalog (T3, written)
- carbon-accounting-and-mrv · carbon-cycle-and-greenhouse-gases · climate-finance-and-investment ← carbon-market & climate-finance catalog (T3, written)
Adjacent
- Parent library index: _index
- Economics T3 index (parallel structure — IAMs, SCC overlap)
- EnergyMarkets T3 index (parallel structure — carbon allowances, RECs)
- Biology T3 index (parallel structure)
- Tooling: agents-learning-protocol — canonical tag for ClimateScience T3 saves is
climate-reference