10.5281/zenodo.3946599
https://zenodo.org/records/3946599
oai:zenodo.org:3946599
Zimmermann, Klaus
Klaus
Zimmermann
0000-0003-3994-2057
SMHI
Bärring, Lars
Lars
Bärring
0000-0001-7280-2502
SMHI
Climate Index Metadata and its Implementation
Zenodo
2020
2020-05-08
Presentation
10.5281/zenodo.3946598
https://zenodo.org/communities/is-enes3
https://zenodo.org/communities/eu
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Presented at EGU2020 - https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-22155
Climate indices play an important role in the practical use of climate and weather data. Their application spans a wide range of topics, from impact assessment in agriculture and urban planning, over indispensable advice in the energy sector, to important evaluation in the climate science community. Several widely used standard sets of indices exist through long-standing efforts of WMO and WCRP Expert Teams (ETCCDI and ET-SCI), as well as European initiatives (ECA&D) and more recently Copernicus C3S activities. They, however, focus on the data themselves, leaving much of the metadata to the individual user. Moreover, these core sets of indices lack a coherent metadata framework that would allow for the consistent inclusion of new indices that continue to be considered every day.
In the meantime, the treatment of metadata in the wider community has received much attention. Within the climate community efforts such as the CF convention and the much-expanded scope and detail of metadata in CMIP6 have improved the clarity and long-term usability of many aspects of climate data a great deal.
We present a novel approach to metadata for climate indices. Our format describes the existing climate indices consistent with the established standards, adding metadata along the lines of existing metadata specifications. The formulation of these additions in a coherent framework encompassing most of the existing climate index standards allows for its easy extension and inclusion of new climate indices as they are developed.
European Commission
10.13039/501100000780
824084
Infrastructure for the European Network for Earth System modelling - Phase 3