Abstract
AbstractThis paper outlines progress of the Copernicus Climate Change Service's (C3S) Global Land and Marine Observations Database service in securing data sources and introduces the data upload component. We present details of land and marine data holdings inventoried, highlighting priority needs in terms of periods, regions and Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) where additional data could bring most benefit. These holdings are being iteratively merged and integrated to best meet user needs and are served to the user via the Copernicus Climate Data Store (CDS). The secure Data Upload Server enables any data provider to share additional data and metadata with the service. We outline the process for registering as a data provider and how data sets are prioritized for integration. We encourage all data owners to share their data with the C3S service via our Data Upload Server. All unique and relevant data acquired or submitted will be also archived at the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information World Data Center for Meteorology, Asheville, North Carolina, USA and used in their database curation efforts which are being jointly developed.
Highlights
Historical observational climate records are crucial in understanding climatic variability, extreme past weather and climate events and allowing us to make informed decisions for better societal adaptation to climate change (e.g., Kennedy et al, 2010; Shapiro et al, 2010; Noone et al, 2017; Murphy et al, 2017; Thorne et al, 2018)
The management of both marine and land historical data sets has been highly fragmented, leading to diverse data holdings held by multiple institutions
This paper has provided details on the climate data that has been acquired and inventoried up until April 2020 as part of the activities of the C3S Global Land and Marine Observations Database Service
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