Observational Data on Gadi
NCI not only hosts numerous datasets for climate research, it also manages and optimises curated data collections. Data collections allow for easier access and use of the numerous datasets created by different organisations, optimising evaluation where numerous datasets are used.
ACCESS-NRI has a curated data collection for Climate Model Evaluation in NCI project ct11. This ACCESS-NRI Replicated Datasets for Climate Model Evaluation provides observational datasets in a format that can be ingested by evaluation frameworks ACCESS-NRI supports. More information and updates can be found in this post.
Here, you can browse and search the available NCI data collections.
Some examples of NCI data collections include:
- Earth Systems Grid Federation data hosted at the NCI ESGF Node.
- ECMWF atmospheric reanalyses (ERA5) data. For more information, refer to the NCI ERA5 Community Page.
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Sentinel Australasia Regional Access (SARA) data obtained from the European Space Agency’s multi-petabyte Sentinel satellite.
NCI also has a user guide for finding, accessing and citing data.
For example, the catalogue of above mentioned ACCESS-NRI Replicated Datasets for Climate Model Evaluation can be found by entering ACCESS-NRI in the NCI Data Catalogue Search field.
