diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 263a0aee1a..d7accf624c 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -21,10 +21,11 @@ TempestRemap_jll = "8573a8c5-1df0-515e-a024-abad257ee284"
 Thermodynamics = "b60c26fb-14c3-4610-9d3e-2d17fe7ff00c"
 
 [compat]
+CUDA = "5"
 ClimaComms = "0.5.6"
 ClimaCore = "0.14"
 ClimaCoreTempestRemap = "0.3"
-CUDA = "5"
+ClimaUtilities = "0.1"
 Dates = "1"
 DocStringExtensions = "0.8, 0.9"
 JLD2 = "0.4"
diff --git a/artifacts/Artifacts.toml b/artifacts/Artifacts.toml
index 818474a9c0..21dbee67cd 100644
--- a/artifacts/Artifacts.toml
+++ b/artifacts/Artifacts.toml
@@ -4,9 +4,6 @@ git-tree-sha1 = "0c6039bfcc39f6c6cb20fb331a71f6a381d93f24"
 [land_mask]
 git-tree-sha1 = "e41bc8c44124f867b64a9d70f1599515ae27f38a"
 
-[pr_obs_data]
-git-tree-sha1 = "7486bf32e9352493f69364aead26f01eaf90d2af"
-
 [sic]
 git-tree-sha1 = "139d23f6de29900917d79b41a87a8ee6483c72d0"
 
diff --git a/artifacts/artifact_funcs.jl b/artifacts/artifact_funcs.jl
index d900b6ebfe..af82b0f623 100644
--- a/artifacts/artifact_funcs.jl
+++ b/artifacts/artifact_funcs.jl
@@ -48,18 +48,6 @@ function mask_dataset_path()
     return AW.get_data_folder(mask_dataset)
 end
 
-function pr_obs_data_path()
-    pr_obs_data = AW.ArtifactWrapper(
-        @__DIR__,
-        "pr_obs_data",
-        AW.ArtifactFile[AW.ArtifactFile(
-            url = "https://caltech.box.com/shared/static/k1or5d0d9xdvyfiytl1os7z341monkzn.nc",
-            filename = "gpcp.precip.mon.mean.197901-202305.nc",
-        ),],
-    )
-    return AW.get_data_folder(pr_obs_data)
-end
-
 """
     artifact_data(datapath_full, filename)
 
diff --git a/artifacts/download_artifacts.jl b/artifacts/download_artifacts.jl
index bc95ed9aef..ee686a5e92 100644
--- a/artifacts/download_artifacts.jl
+++ b/artifacts/download_artifacts.jl
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ function trigger_download()
     @info "sic dataset path: `$(sic_dataset_path())`"
     @info "co2 dataset path: `$(co2_dataset_path())`"
     @info "mask dataset path: `$(mask_dataset_path())`"
-    @info "pr obs data path: `$(pr_obs_data_path())`"
     return nothing
 end
 trigger_download()
diff --git a/experiments/ClimaEarth/Artifacts.toml b/experiments/ClimaEarth/Artifacts.toml
index 8065620663..385fb2673c 100644
--- a/experiments/ClimaEarth/Artifacts.toml
+++ b/experiments/ClimaEarth/Artifacts.toml
@@ -1,9 +1,5 @@
 [land_mask]
 git-tree-sha1 = "e41bc8c44124f867b64a9d70f1599515ae27f38a"
-
-[pr_obs_data]
-git-tree-sha1 = "7486bf32e9352493f69364aead26f01eaf90d2af"
-
 [sic]
 git-tree-sha1 = "139d23f6de29900917d79b41a87a8ee6483c72d0"
 
@@ -19,3 +15,10 @@ git-tree-sha1 = "aa2d5178a656e9ce7a37698d978d8ed92aa46d99"
     [[cmip_model_rmse.download]]
     sha256 = "b019d40510cebc678899a74d2cf14e33aa60452805478b2bf7176b891012aa97"
     url = "https://caltech.box.com/shared/static/lmzvnjkxctlb0fanieeqxll0vdrbei9e.gz"
+
+[precipitation_obs]
+git-tree-sha1 = "7486bf32e9352493f69364aead26f01eaf90d2af"
+
+    [[precipitation_obs.download]]
+    sha256 = "463ebc1886c4e0be9656656da699f2cbb87d7c2568d5e81277c0c8a415dc8143"
+    url = "https://caltech.box.com/shared/static/j63uak557kw7tlzb3dgwifoaeczekzm4.gz"
diff --git a/experiments/ClimaEarth/Project.toml b/experiments/ClimaEarth/Project.toml
index f3c2cb90a2..46d23174b1 100644
--- a/experiments/ClimaEarth/Project.toml
+++ b/experiments/ClimaEarth/Project.toml
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ ClimaCoupler = "4ade58fe-a8da-486c-bd89-46df092ec0c7"
 ClimaLand = "08f4d4ce-cf43-44bb-ad95-9d2d5f413532"
 ClimaParams = "5c42b081-d73a-476f-9059-fd94b934656c"
 ClimaTimeSteppers = "595c0a79-7f3d-439a-bc5a-b232dc3bde79"
+ClimaUtilities = "b3f4f4ca-9299-4f7f-bd9b-81e1242a7513"
 CloudMicrophysics = "6a9e3e04-43cd-43ba-94b9-e8782df3c71b"
 Colors = "5ae59095-9a9b-59fe-a467-6f913c188581"
 CommonDataModel = "1fbeeb36-5f17-413c-809b-666fb144f157"
@@ -61,6 +62,7 @@ ClimaCorePlots = "0.2"
 ClimaLand = "0.12"
 ClimaParams = "0.10"
 ClimaTimeSteppers = "0.7"
+ClimaUtilities = "0.1"
 Colors = "0.12"
 Dierckx = "0.5"
 ForwardDiff = "0.10"
diff --git a/experiments/ClimaEarth/user_io/leaderboard/Leaderboard.jl b/experiments/ClimaEarth/user_io/leaderboard/Leaderboard.jl
index 1388a00c5c..c99fd103aa 100644
--- a/experiments/ClimaEarth/user_io/leaderboard/Leaderboard.jl
+++ b/experiments/ClimaEarth/user_io/leaderboard/Leaderboard.jl
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 module Leaderboard
 
+import ClimaComms
 import ClimaAnalysis
 import Dates
 import NCDatasets
@@ -9,11 +10,10 @@ import GeoMakie
 import ClimaCoupler
 import Statistics: mean
 import Artifacts
+import ClimaUtilities: @clima_artifact
 
-include(joinpath(pkgdir(ClimaCoupler), "artifacts", "artifact_funcs.jl"))
 include("data_sources.jl")
 include("utils.jl")
 include("compare_with_obs.jl")
 
-
 end
diff --git a/experiments/ClimaEarth/user_io/leaderboard/cmip_rmse.jl b/experiments/ClimaEarth/user_io/leaderboard/cmip_rmse.jl
index 47b07e4967..3662098953 100644
--- a/experiments/ClimaEarth/user_io/leaderboard/cmip_rmse.jl
+++ b/experiments/ClimaEarth/user_io/leaderboard/cmip_rmse.jl
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import Statistics: median
 
-pr_file_path = joinpath(artifact"cmip_model_rmse", "pr_rmse_amippr_amip.csv")
+pr_file_path = joinpath(@clima_artifact("cmip_model_rmse"), "pr_rmse_amip_pr_amip_5yr")
 
 open(pr_file_path, "r") do io
     # Skip the header
diff --git a/experiments/ClimaEarth/user_io/leaderboard/compare_with_obs.jl b/experiments/ClimaEarth/user_io/leaderboard/compare_with_obs.jl
index 9a2e8ad772..aaf2359a58 100644
--- a/experiments/ClimaEarth/user_io/leaderboard/compare_with_obs.jl
+++ b/experiments/ClimaEarth/user_io/leaderboard/compare_with_obs.jl
@@ -24,8 +24,10 @@ function Base.values(r::RMSEs)
     return val_or_rmse.([r.ANN, r.DJF, r.JJA, r.MAM, r.SON])
 end
 
-OBS_DS["pr"] =
-    ObsDataSource(; path = joinpath(pr_obs_data_path(), "gpcp.precip.mon.mean.197901-202305.nc"), var_name = "precip")
+OBS_DS["pr"] = ObsDataSource(;
+    path = joinpath(@clima_artifact("precipitation_obs"), "gpcp.precip.mon.mean.197901-202305.nc"),
+    var_name = "precip",
+)
 
 SIM_DS_KWARGS["pr"] = (; preprocess_data_fn = preprocess_pr_fn, new_units = "mm / day")
 
diff --git a/test/Project.toml b/test/Project.toml
index 710626fc3c..440a29048c 100644
--- a/test/Project.toml
+++ b/test/Project.toml
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ ClimaCoupler = "4ade58fe-a8da-486c-bd89-46df092ec0c7"
 ClimaLand = "08f4d4ce-cf43-44bb-ad95-9d2d5f413532"
 ClimaParams = "5c42b081-d73a-476f-9059-fd94b934656c"
 ClimaTimeSteppers = "595c0a79-7f3d-439a-bc5a-b232dc3bde79"
+ClimaUtilities = "b3f4f4ca-9299-4f7f-bd9b-81e1242a7513"
 Dates = "ade2ca70-3891-5945-98fb-dc099432e06a"
 Downloads = "f43a241f-c20a-4ad4-852c-f6b1247861c6"
 GeoMakie = "db073c08-6b98-4ee5-b6a4-5efafb3259c6"
@@ -43,6 +44,7 @@ ArtifactWrappers = "0.2"
 ClimaAtmos = "0.24"
 ClimaLand = "0.12"
 ClimaParams = "0.10"
+ClimaUtilities = "0.1"
 Dates = "1"
 Downloads = "1"
 IntervalSets = "0.5, 0.6, 0.7"
diff --git a/test/experiment_tests/Artifacts.toml b/test/experiment_tests/Artifacts.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cad73fcc2c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/experiment_tests/Artifacts.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+[precipitation_obs]
+git-tree-sha1 = "7486bf32e9352493f69364aead26f01eaf90d2af"
+
+    [[precipitation_obs.download]]
+    sha256 = "463ebc1886c4e0be9656656da699f2cbb87d7c2568d5e81277c0c8a415dc8143"
+    url = "https://caltech.box.com/shared/static/j63uak557kw7tlzb3dgwifoaeczekzm4.gz"
diff --git a/test/experiment_tests/leaderboard.jl b/test/experiment_tests/leaderboard.jl
index de0e28bca1..ff5f355e20 100644
--- a/test/experiment_tests/leaderboard.jl
+++ b/test/experiment_tests/leaderboard.jl
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import Test: @test, @testset, @test_throws
+import ClimaComms
 import ClimaCoupler
 import ClimaAnalysis
 import Dates
@@ -67,7 +68,7 @@ end
     @test Leaderboard.data_at_date(sim_datasource, Dates.DateTime(1979, 1, 2)) == preprocess_fn(pr.data[1, :, :])
 
     obs_datasource = Leaderboard.ObsDataSource(;
-        path = joinpath(pr_obs_data_path(), "gpcp.precip.mon.mean.197901-202305.nc"),
+        path = joinpath(@clima_artifact("precipitation_obs"), "gpcp.precip.mon.mean.197901-202305.nc"),
         var_name = "precip",
         preprocess_data_fn = preprocess_fn,
     )