Working with Intake and Intake-ESM#

Intake is a library that allows you to easily access data from a variety of sources in a tree-like catalog structure.

Its sub-variant ,`Intake-ESM <https://intake-esm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>`__ assumes a table/database style structure with grouping by pre-specified columns. It is mainly used in the context of CMIP, where data is strongly standardized, and thus many models can be compared easily, and intake scripts can iterate across models and ensemble members.