diff --git a/esm-collections/cloud-access/dkrz_catalog.yaml b/esm-collections/cloud-access/dkrz_catalog.yaml
index 178e730b87a978487997a1bc4dfba47b29ebb7fa..3a6a67a4b3911f1313dc9f2d971203394f935bd6 100644
--- a/esm-collections/cloud-access/dkrz_catalog.yaml
+++ b/esm-collections/cloud-access/dkrz_catalog.yaml
@@ -236,12 +236,9 @@ sources:
   dkrz_nextgems_disk:
     args:
       #obj: 'https://gitlab.dkrz.de/data-infrastructure-services/intake-esm/-/raw/master/esm-collections/cloud-access//dkrz_nextgems_disk.json'
-      obj: 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nextGEMS/catalog/refs/heads/main/catalog.yaml'
-      read_csv_kwargs:
-        usecols: *id001
+      path: 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nextGEMS/catalog/refs/heads/main/catalog.yaml'
     description: Default catalog for ICON-ESM experiments by MPIMet
-    driver:
-    - intake.open_esm_datastore
+    driver: yaml_file_cat
   dkrz_palmod2_disk:
     args:
       obj: 'https://gitlab.dkrz.de/data-infrastructure-services/intake-esm/-/raw/master/esm-collections/cloud-access//dkrz_palmod2_disk.json'