The U.S. Geological Survey Climate Geo Data Portal: an integrated broker for climate and geospatial data
Fact Sheet
2013-3019
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Abstract
The increasing availability of downscaled climate projections and other data products that summarize or predict climate conditions, is making climate data use more common in research and management. Scientists and decisionmakers often need to construct ensembles and compare climate hindcasts and future projections for particular spatial areas. These tasks generally require an investigator to procure all datasets of interest en masse, integrate the various data formats and representations into commonly accessible and comparable formats, and then extract the subsets of the datasets that are actually of interest. This process can be challenging and time intensive due to data-transfer, -storage, and(or) -processing limits, or unfamiliarity with methods of accessing climate data. Data management for modeling and assessing the impacts of future climate conditions is also becoming increasingly expensive due to the size of the datasets. The Climate Geo Data Portal (http://cida.usgs.gov/climate/gdp/) addresses these limitations, making access to numerous climate datasets for particular areas of interest a simple and efficient task.
Suggested Citation
Blodgett, D.L., 2013, The U.S. Geological Survey Climate Geo Data Portal: an integrated broker for climate and geospatial data: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2013-3019, 2 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/fs20133019.
ISSN: 2327-6932 (online)
| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
| Title | The U.S. Geological Survey Climate Geo Data Portal: an integrated broker for climate and geospatial data |
| Series title | Fact Sheet |
| Series number | 2013-3019 |
| DOI | 10.3133/fs20133019 |
| Year Published | 2013 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Publisher location | Reston, VA |
| Contributing office(s) | Center for Integrated Data Analytics |
| Description | 2 p. |
| Country | United States |
| Online Only (Y/N) | Y |
| Additional Online Files (Y/N) | N |