Australian Community Reference Climate Data Collection @ NCI
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Australian Community Reference Climate Data Collection @ NCI¶
What is it?¶
A collaboration between the Australian Climate Service (ACS), ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CLEX) and the wider Australian climate research community to re-establish and maintain a reference dataset collection at NCI.
Background¶
Observational and reanalysis datasets are important to many areas of weather, climate and ocean research. There is significant overlap between the datasets required by researchers at the Bureau of Meteorology CSIRO and Australian universities, so there have been efforts over the years to establish and maintain a shared reference dataset collection at NCI. Some high profile datasets are actively managed as stand alone projects (e.g. ERA5 in project rt52, AGCD in zv2, BARRA in ma05/cj37), but the most recent effort to maintain a broader reference dataset collection (project rr7, which was coordinated by NCI) has been inactivate for the past few years. During that period, the Computational Modelling Support (CMS) team at CLEX (led in this space by Paola Petrelli) have been maintaining a number of reference datasets for their own researchers and other ad hoc efforts have been happening here and there. With the establishment of the ACS, there is a need (and opportunity) to re-establish a shared reference dataset collection. By setting up a formal collaboration between the ACS and CLEX we can leverage the existing code/expertise at CLEX and the dedicated ACS shared storage space at NCI to deliver such a collection.
Who’s involved?¶
Damien Irving, Chloe Mackallah and Claire Trenham from ACS
Paola Petrelli from CLEX
Other ACS/CLEX staff and community members as required