ACCESS-NRI would like to know the needs of the Working Groups for Reference Datasets. We would like to know what datasets of significance for the working group you would like to have hosted in a published data collection at NCI within the financial year 23-24. We need to create a list of likely datasets that will be ready within this timeframe so we can start the data management process for these datasets with you and NCI.
What is a Reference Dataset
A Reference Dataset is data that is of significance to the community and will be used by a range of users. Possible examples:
Datasets for input in climate models (forcings, ancillary datasets etc.)
Datasets for evaluation of model outputs
Reference model outputs that are used widely
What we need from you
Proposing datasets
If you have a dataset you think
can be considered as a Reference Dataset
Will be ready for publication before June 2024
Please reply to this topic with:
Dataset name
Contact to liaise with publishing data (name and organisation)
Dataset details to show its importance to the community
Required storage in GB
Voting on datasets
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Datasets list
Below is a table that I will update summarising the most voted datasets proposed by the working group:
OSI-405C is the best of the global long term sea ice drift / motion products to compare results against. Its a daily product but the drift is averaged over 48-hours. 62.5km resolution.
Various remote sensing ocean productivity products exist, derived from different satellites and different empirical models. The products can be used for BGC model validation, forcing ecological models, and general BGC/satellite oceanography.
This data is all downloadable on the OSU ocean productivity page as individual .tar files for each (8-day) times step. I suspect hosting gridded yearly or climatologic files would be useful.
Core products include NPP from VgPM and NPP from CbPM (which are two fundamentally different algorithms for estimating NPP), Chlorophyll (from different satellites if desired), phytoplankton biomass, phytoplankton specific division rates, and various associated physical properties need to estimate the rate terms.
Diagnostic Products that I could contribute include grazing rates estimate from the carbon budget which will be used to help validate WOMBAT v2 and could be useful to the ecology community.
I think ACCESS-OM2-01 IAF simulations definitely fall under this category. Much of this data is already publicly published on cj50 (@aekiss can perhaps clarify how much is where?), so I’m not sure how that would work moving it. But it would be great to have ACCESS-NRI look after these (and future ACCESS-OM3) model outputs that are very widely used within the COSIMA community.