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Climate Change 2016
October 27-29, 2016
Volume 7, Issue 9(Suppl) J Earth Sci Clim Change
ISSN: 2157-7617 JESCC, an open access journal
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October 24-26, 2016 Valencia, Spain
World Conference onClimate Change
The role of climate model data and long-term data archives in climate change research
M Stockhause and M Lautenschlager
German Climate Computing Center, Germany
C limate change research is driven by data. Remote sensing and obervation data provide evidence of the current situation,
whereas model data provide information on the climate’s sensitivity against different climate factors as well as on possible
future developments (future projections). Data underlying the IPCC reports provide one of the largest and most comprehensive
available data collections.These data disseminated by the IPCCData Distribution Centres (IPCC-DDC) is used within scientific
research for many years. Therefore, it is essential that the data is of high quality and well-documented. But equally important
is the long-term availability and curation of the data by a reliable data center such as the IPCC-DDC. The IPCC-DDC for
the climate model output data is hosted at the World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at the German Climate Computing
Center (DKRZ). The data workflow from the decentral CMIP (Coupled Model Intercomparison Project) data nodes into the
central IPCC-DDC long-term archive at WDCC is presented, which includes a thorough quality assurance procedure and the
registration of a DataCite DOI enabling data citation. Current and future challenges of the archiving workflow as well as of the
data dissemination services for a broad and broadening user community are discussed.
Biography
M Stockhause studied Meteorology at the University of Hamburg and completed her PhD in 2000. After working as an air quality expert for an engineering
consulting firm, she became a Data Manager of scientific data at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and the German Climate Computing Center (Deutsches
Klimarechenzentrum, DKRZ). She is Co-ordinator of the IPCC-DDC (Data Distribution Centre) at DKRZ and a member of IPCC TGICA (Task Group on Data and
Scenario Support for Impacts and Climate Analysis).
M Stockhause et al., J Earth Sci Clim Change 2016, 7:9(Suppl)