Scenario Conventions

Appropriate Use Case

• The Scenario resource type currently captures common IPCC Climate scenarios used in climate science.
• We do not actively create or curate scenarios.

• Scenarios are currently thin objects only associated with Models.

• We will leave these objects alone for the time being, neither focusing on filling them in nor deprecating them.

• When automated data allows, filling in connections to datasets would be nice.

Reasoning

• It is nice to be able to say from the perspective of the models & projects to be able to say what science has come out of them. However we do not think that is really our focus.

• We see no reason to take these away. Any time we could ingest the connections that would be nice. But we don’t want to focus on manually collecting this information.

• Should we ask the authors for this? Probably not. The authors already fill in a lot of high priority data that we can’t get from elsewhere.

Unresolved Conventions

• Scenarios may be worth revisiting for NCA5.
• We would want a robust object that could connect with a variety of objects (i.e. Figures)