Earth system data is rapidly increasing in volume as new observation systems generate data at rates of terabytes/day and modelling systems continue toincrease their resolution and the number of ensemble members. Coping with such amounts of data presentssubstantial challenges to Earth system researchers who often find it difficult to identify suitable tools and concepts to efficiently process such data to the extent that is necessary to obtain statistically meaningful results. Conversely, computer scientists are generally more familiar with the technical aspects of data handling, but they have difficulties to understand the domain-specific aspects of Earth system data with respect to Earth’s geometry or important data andmetadata properties that cannot be neglected. This seminar builds on a one semester university course (slides and videos are available at https://b2drop.eudat.eu/s/iwYob4QonXHjEPH ) and will discuss selected aspects in an interactive fashion,including best practices for handling massive amountsof (Earth system) data, the role of metadata and quality control and more.
