Creating a comprehensive climate databank
SEP 07, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024649
Nature : Today through Thursday, the UK’s Met Office is hosting a workshop in Exeter to discuss how to create a comprehensive climate databank. Although the climate science community has discussed creating such a databank for years, it was last year’s incident involving the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit—when thousands of e-mails were leaked onto the internet, allegedly revealing misconduct within the climate science community—that gave it impetus. Called “Surface Temperature Datasets for the 21st Century,” the workshop centers on making worldwide climate data readily available to the public, whereas in the past data were either lacking completely or their availability was limited for political or economic reasons.
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