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The U.S. Geological Survey Climate Geo Data Portal: an integrated broker for climate and geospatial data

May 16, 2013

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.

Publication Year 2013
Title The U.S. Geological Survey Climate Geo Data Portal: an integrated broker for climate and geospatial data
DOI 10.3133/fs20133019
Authors David L. Blodgett
Publication Type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Series Title Fact Sheet
Series Number 2013-3019
Index ID fs20133019
Record Source USGS Publications Warehouse
USGS Organization Center for Integrated Data Analytics
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