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  • Open Up Climate Data: Using Open Data to Advance Climate Action
  • Acknowledgements
  • Background: Open Up Guides
  • Introduction
    • Target Audiences
    • Open Data Defined
    • From Open Data to Impact
    • How the Guide Was Developed
    • Next steps
  • Key Components of an Open Climate-Relevant Data System
  • Existing public repositories of climatic and climate-relevant data
    • World Bank’s Climate Change Knowledge Portal
    • IPCC’s Data Distribution Centre
    • UN’s Global Risk Data Platform
    • European Space Agency’s Climate Change Initiative
    • Global Climate Observing System
    • UNFCCC
    • FAOSTAT
    • PREPdata
    • National Center for Atmospheric Research’s (NCAR) Climate Data Guide
  • What’s missing?
  • Other guides for communicating climate-relevant information
  • Relevant data types
    • Emissions Related Data
    • Agricultural Data
    • Land Use Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) Data
    • Electricity Data
    • Stationary Energy Data (other than electricity)
    • Transport Data
    • Waste Data
    • Natural Hazards and Impacts Data
    • Socioeconomic Data
    • Climate Finance Data
  • Conclusions
  • Collaborators
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  1. Existing public repositories of climatic and climate-relevant data

IPCC’s Data Distribution Centre

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The IPCC’s (DDC) provides the following information:

    • for the period 1961-1990 for nine variables. These are global datasets, although the DDC also provides links to other global and national sources of observed climatic data. (The DDC guidance notes that while adequate monthly data can be frequently obtained from global or regional datasets, station data at higher resolution is usually obtained from national sources.)

    • Global climate model data used as input to the Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth IPCC Assessment Reports. ( available here, and period averages .)

    • . These are collated from various sources such as World Bank, UNEP, and FAO, and include summary data on population, economic conditions, land cover/land use, water, agriculture/food, energy, biodiversity.

    • . These include data on global mean CO2 concentration, global and regional sea-level rise, regional ground-level ozone concentration, sulfate aerosol concentration and sulfur deposition. The scenarios were developed for the IPCC Third Assessment Report.

The DDC also provides for the use of the various data.

Data Distribution Centre
Observed climatic data
Data archive
here
Socioeconomic data and scenarios
Data and scenarios for other environmental changes
guidelines