Climate and geophysical data rescue

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Climate and geophysical data rescue

Large volumes of historical climate and geophysical exist in non-digitized and inaccessible form. Such data are at risk of simple disintegration and decay, or are being discarded because paper-based records take up valuable office space. These records have the potential to fill in large gaps in the global climate record, particularly in developing countries where records are fragmentary.


The data rescue activities in C3 include:
  • Locating and rescuing instrumental climate and other environmental data stored on perishable media together with their metadata
  • Digitizing historical environmental data
  • Ensuring the digitized data are available for operational and research applications to its host country as well as to the international scientific community

The data rescued by the MEDARE community enables the scientific community a greater ability to monitor, detect and predict climate variability and change at regional and national levels and to consolidate and progress climate data and metadata rescue activities.