clairecarouge
(Claire Carouge, ACCESS-NRI Land Modelling Team Lead)
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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
If you have a dataset you think 1. can be considered as a Reference Dataset, 2. will be ready for publication before June 2024, please reply to this topic before 20th October with:
Dataset name
Contact name to liaise with publishing data (Forum handle)
Dataset URL if it exists
Dataset details to show its importance to the community, e.g. temporal and spatial coverage, nature of dataset (observations, reanalysis …), static or regularly updated
Current required storage in GB, projection for next year if not a static dataset
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Datasets list
Below is a table summarising datasets proposed by the working group:
New gridinfo for CABLE using newest datasets and documented how the file was created. Would be good to have a separate Australia (5km?) and global file (25km?). A big effort but noting it here as one for the wishlist
As with FLUXCOM it’s an ensemble of products that I would not treat it as a well distributed ensemble estimate, or the spread as a good measure of observational uncertainty… possibly after careful ensemble sub-selection though
Various incarnations of other remote sensing products (MODIS LAI and NDVI, Landsat).
IGBP soils and land cover, Soils Atlas of Australia (v2) (and other TERN landscapes data layers) - possibly better done as pointers to existing libraries
Hi all, thanks for all the data requests and apologies for the delay. I’ve recently joined the ACCESS-NRI and will be working through these requests with the WGs. It will take a while for us to get through them all but I’ll get back with an update and more information as soon as possible. Thanks.
