Dataset Showcase CRU Climate Data

As part of CEDA’s data curation mission we undertake work, often unseen to our users, to ensure that datasets remain accessible, useful, understandable and discoverable.

We recently worked to improve the user experience of some of our most popular dataset collections from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia:

• Climatic Research Unit (CRU) time-series datasets of variations in climate with variations in other phenomena
• Climatic Research Unit (CRU) Year-by-Year Variation of Selected Climate Variables by CountrY (CY)
• CRUTEM datasets
• Global maps of monthly self-calibrating Palmer Drought Severity Index (scPDSI) based on Climatic Research Unit Time Series (CRU TS) data

What’s new?  

• We’ve reviewed and improved all the data catalogue entries for these dataset collections, making sure that they are up-to-date, correct and clearer than before.
• We’ve updated the access control to allow JASMIN and CEMS users to access these data locally
• We’ve produced a tailored guide “CEDA WPS User Guide for extracting CRU TS data” explaining how to use this tool to sub-set from the CRU TS data collection

For more information about these data please visit their catalogue pages above or contact us for assistance.