Data - what are we doing with it? about cmip6_arctic_terns

[daw538]

Yeah tbh I have no idea what the general practice is when it comes to uploading data for the reproduction of results. I only included those files for now as they're pretty small and are shared between mine and Ned's analysis. To be accurate the data isn't raw CMIP6 data anyway, but has been post-processed to give the multi-model average that is used by all the wind analysis,

[daw538]

@nvogtvincent are those trajectory files created by TernSim.py? If so I personally don't see the need for you to include the trajectory files since you've provided the means to recreate them if someone so desires (even if there is a computational cost associated with that).

[nvogtvincent]

@daw538 Yeah they are, and yes they are reproducible with TernSim.py. The 'plus' of including the trajectories explicitly is that someone could immediately reproduce all figures in the paper from this repo without spending a lot of (computation) time recomputing trajectories, but archiving it will be a pain and, as you point out, probably unnecessary since the experiments are fairly simple and, realistically, it's unlikely anybody would ever use them. Let's not then.