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Add info on obs tiers to docu #3624

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Add some basic information on grouping observational data into tier1, tier2 and tier3. Mark tier3 datasets for which we obtained permission from the dataset providers to share the data among ESMValTool users on HPC systems.

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All observational datasets are grouped into in three tiers:

* **Tier 1**: obs4mips and ana4mips datasets. These datasets are publicly and freely available without any license restrictions.
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Maybe we should add here that these datasets do not need any cmorization to be usable with ESMValTool.

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All observational datasets are grouped into in three tiers:

* **Tier 1**: obs4mips and ana4mips datasets. These datasets are publicly and freely available without any license restrictions.
* **Tier 2** other freely available datasets that are not obs4mips. There are no license restrictions.
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And then I would add here as well that these datasets need to be cmorized to be used with ESMValTool.

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* **Tier 1**: obs4mips and ana4mips datasets. These datasets are publicly and freely available without any license restrictions.
* **Tier 2** other freely available datasets that are not obs4mips. There are no license restrictions.
* **Tier 3** restricted datasets. Datasets which require registration to be downloaded or that can only be obtained upon request from the respective authors. License restrictions do not allow us to redistribute Tier 3 datasets. The data have to be obtained and reformatted by the user (see section :ref:`supported datasets below<supported_datasets>`).
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Maybe add here as well that the cmorization of the data is a step that needs to be done for these datasets.

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@axel-lauer axel-lauer marked this pull request as ready for review May 28, 2024 13:08
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Looks great! Thanks for your work on this @axel-lauer & @hb326 !

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Moving datasets from Tier 3 to Tier 2 when approved by providers
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