Investigating the potential for students to contribute to climate data rescue: Introducing the Climate Data Rescue Africa project (CliDaR-Africa)

IF 3.3 3区 地球科学 Q2 GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
S. Noone, C. D'Arcy, S. Donegan, W. Durkan, B. Essel, K. Healion, H. Hersbach, S. Madden, J. Marshall, L. McConnell, I. Mensah, N. Scroxton, S. Thiesen, P. Thorne
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The majority of available climate data in global digital archives consist of data only from the 1940s or 1950s onwards, and many of these series have gaps and/or are available for only a subset of the variables which were actually observed. However, there exist billions of historical weather observations from the 1700s, 1800s, and early 1900s that are still in hard-copy form and are at risk of being lost forever due to deterioration. An assessment of changes in climate extremes in several IPCC regions was not possible in IPCC AR6 WGI owing, in many cases, to the lack of available data. One such region is Africa, where the climate impact research and the ability to predict climate change impacts are hindered by the paucity of access to consistent good-quality historical observational data. The aim of this innovative project was to use classroom-based participatory learning to help transcribe some of the many meteorological observations from Africa that are thus far unavailable to researchers. This project transcribed quickly and effectively station series by enrolling the help of second-year undergraduate students at Maynooth University in Ireland. The newly digitized African data will increase the temporal and spatial coverage of data in this important data-sparse region. Students gained new skills while helping the global scientific community unearth new insight into past African climate. The project managed to transcribe 79 months of data at Andapa in Madagascar and 56 months of data for Macenta in Guinea. The digitized data will be openly and freely shared with the scientific and wider community via the Pangaea data repository, the C3S Climate Data Store, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) data centre in the US. The project model has the potential for a broader roll-out to other educational contexts and there is no shortage of data to be rescued. This paper provides details of the project, and all supporting information such as project guidelines and templates to enable other organizations to instigate similar programs.

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调查学生为拯救气候数据做出贡献的潜力:介绍非洲气候数据拯救项目(CliDaR-Africa)
全球数字档案中现有的大部分气候数据仅包括 20 世纪 40 年代或 50 年代以后的数据,其中许多数据序列存在缺口和/或仅提供了实际观测到的变量的子集。然而,1700 年代、1800 年代和 1900 年代初的数十亿历史气象观测数据仍是硬拷贝形式,有可能因老化而永远丢失。由于缺乏可用数据,IPCC 第六次评估报告第一工作组(IPCC AR6 WGI)无法对几个 IPCC 区域的极端气候变化趋势进行评估。非洲就是这样一个地区,由于难以获得一致的高质量历史观测数据,该地区的气候影响研究和预测气候变化影响的能力受到了阻碍。这个创新项目的目的是利用课堂参与式学习,帮助转录研究人员至今无法获得的非洲许多气象观测数据。在爱尔兰梅努斯大学二年级本科生的帮助下,该项目快速有效地转录了观测站系列数据。新数字化的非洲数据将扩大这一数据稀缺的重要地区的数据时空覆盖范围。学生们在获得新技能的同时,也帮助全球科学界对非洲过去的气候有了新的认识。该项目转录了马达加斯加安达帕 79 个月的数据和几内亚马森塔 56 个月的数据。数字化数据将通过盘古数据存储库、C3S 气候数据存储库和美国国家海洋和大气管理局(NOAA)的国家环境信息中心(NCEI)数据中心与科学界和更广泛的群体公开免费共享。该项目模式有可能更广泛地推广到其他教育领域,而且不乏需要抢救的数据。本文介绍了该项目的详细情况,以及项目指南和模板等所有辅助信息,以便其他组织能够开展类似的项目。
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Geoscience Data Journal
Geoscience Data Journal GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARYMETEOROLOGY-METEOROLOGY & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
CiteScore
5.90
自引率
9.40%
发文量
35
审稿时长
4 weeks
期刊介绍: Geoscience Data Journal provides an Open Access platform where scientific data can be formally published, in a way that includes scientific peer-review. Thus the dataset creator attains full credit for their efforts, while also improving the scientific record, providing version control for the community and allowing major datasets to be fully described, cited and discovered. An online-only journal, GDJ publishes short data papers cross-linked to – and citing – datasets that have been deposited in approved data centres and awarded DOIs. The journal will also accept articles on data services, and articles which support and inform data publishing best practices. Data is at the heart of science and scientific endeavour. The curation of data and the science associated with it is as important as ever in our understanding of the changing earth system and thereby enabling us to make future predictions. Geoscience Data Journal is working with recognised Data Centres across the globe to develop the future strategy for data publication, the recognition of the value of data and the communication and exploitation of data to the wider science and stakeholder communities.
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