Title: Sources of Climate Information and the WB Climate Data Portal
1Sources of Climate Information and the WB Climate
Data Portal
- Michael I. Westphal
- CC Team ENV
- SDN Week 26/2/08
2Oft-heard Questions
- Whats out there?
- What data are easily accessible?
- What data are useful and important in the
development context? - - timeframe, variables, spatial scale (Are GCMs
too coarse?) - Is it all too uncertain? (Or the Paralysis of
Uncertainty)
3Sources of Climate Information
- I.) Documents/ Reports
- IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (www.ipcc.ch)
- Limitations
- - Informational only, no data
- - Generated by and for (?) climate scientists
- - Qualitative, difficult to bore down to regions
- - Most projections end of 21st Century
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4- II) Data Sites
- IPCC Data Portal (WCRP CMIP3 multi-model
database) (https//esg.llnl.gov8443/) - - abstruse (netCDF) format, unusable to
development professionals -
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6- II) Data Sites
- Various CRU historical datasets
- Tyndall http//www.cru.uea.ac.uk/timm/data/inde
x-table.html - CGIAR http//cru.csi.cgiar.org/CRU_data_structur
e.asp - University of East Anglia http//www.cru.uea.ac.u
k/cru/data/ - -requires programming/GIS sophistication
7- II) Data Sites
- WorldClim (www.worldclim.org)
- - Historical bioclim variables ands downscaling
from 3 GCMs (IPCC 3AR) - -no measures of extreme precipitation rainfall
variability - -requires programming/GIS sophistication
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9- III) Visualisation Sites
- Hadley Centre
- -One model, one point in time, limited variables
- (http//www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/hadleycentr
e/models/modeldata.html) - National Center for Atmospheric Research
- - More variables, more interactive but still one
point in time - - can download data
- - one model
- - missing variables to development? (rainfall
variability, variability, variability) - (www.gisclimatechange.org)
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12- III) Visualisation Sites Current/historical
climate - International Research Institute for Climate and
Society climatologies, drought, anomalies, etc.
- (http//portal.iri.columbia.edu/portal/server.pt)
- NOAA Africa Desk - climatologies, drought,
anomalies, station data, etc. (http//www.cpc.ncep
.noaa.gov/products/african_desk/)
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15- IV) What about desktop models?
- MAGICC (http//www.cru.uea.ac.uk/mikeh/software/m
agicc.htm) - -More for exploring emissions only basic temp
and SLR - PRECIS (Hadley Centre)
- - (http//precis.metoffice.com)
- - More for Met Bureaus
- -A typical experiment (100 x100 grid) run on a
2.8GHz machine 4.5 months to complete a 30-year
simulation! -
16 hence the need for a Climate Data Portal
17Niche of our Climate Data Portal
- Light and quick, ease-of-use
- Visualization, querying, data summarization
- Pixel-level and country aggregation
- More consonant with development timeframe and
variables (extreme precipitation/ temperature) - http//essdcharts.worldbank.org
18Niche of our Climate Data Portal
- Historical and Projected
- GCMs and downscaling
- Multimodel, model concordance/discordance
(uncertainty) - Not just 1? Climate Data
- - Climate-related (natural disaster, crop yield
projections) - - Non-climate (socioeconomic)
19Some Global Datasets
Type Variables Institute Resolution
Climate Change Projections (High resolution GCM) Temp, Precip, extreme rainfall metrics Meteorological Research Institute, Japan 20 km.
Climate Change Projections (IPCC GCMs) Temp, Precip, extreme rainfall/temp metrics Various 1- 4
Climate Change Projections Runoff USGS (Milly et al. 2008) 2
Climate Change Projections Crop yield changes/ suitability (14 crops) IIASA, Austria 5
20Some Global Datasets
Type Variables Institute Resolution
Natural Disaster Hotspots Floods, droughts, landslides (economic loss, economic loss GDP, mortality) WB/ Columbia University 2.5
Historical Climate (CRU Dataset) Monthly Temp, Precip University of East Anglia/ CGIAR 0.5
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27Planned Functionality
- Linkages with other tools, wiki
- Interfacing with Bank databases
- Spatially-referenced Knowledgebase
28Acknowledgements
- Data suppliers
- - IPCC Data Portal (LLL)
- - MRI, Japan
- SDN IT Group
- - Reza Firuzabadi
- - Arvind Gowda, Dany Jones, Michael Kane, Ritesh
Sanan, Varuna Somaweera
29Climate Needs for Bank?
- Variables
- Spatial Scale
- Time Frame
- Display of uncertainties
- Format
- Will this portal be useful? When? Modifications,
extensions?