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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

National Center for Atmospheric Research’s (NCAR) Climate Data Guide

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seeks to provide concise and reliable information on the strengths and limitations of key observational data sets, tools and methods used to evaluate Earth system models and to understand the climate system. It is intended to help climate scientists make more informed selections of datasets for their own research and to better understand different data and analysis methods.The Climate Data Guide recognizes that highly accurate, readily accessible data in user-friendly formats is important to a diverse body of users across private, public, and academic sectors, and seeks to respond to the rapidly increasing volume of climate data available. The Guide collects commentary from expert data developers and users regarding applications of datasets, common mistakes made in processing or interpreting the data, uncertainty, etc. It also , with descriptions of the dataset’s strengths, limitations, and typical uses, tailored to Earth system model evaluation and general climate research.

NCAR’s Climate Data Guide
profiles observational climate datasets