About the Climate Center
About the Climate Center
- What is the Data Basin Climate Center?
- What does the Climate Center do?
- Who is the Climate Center built for?
- How does the Data Basin Climate Center relate to CAKE?
- Who contributes and provides datasets to the Climate Center?
What is the Data Basin Climate Center?
The Climate Center is one of the gateways into Data Basin. It focuses on datasets, tools, and social networks related to climate and its impacts. The Center and Data Basin in general will allow you to:
- Publish climate and impacts datasets on line and share them with colleagues, collaborators, students, workshop participants
- Discover new (or old!) research results and maybe even discover new patterns and impacts of a changing climate
- Compare datasets from different sources and resolutions, review and rate them, use them for class, workshops, proposal or publication writing
- Connect with the people who contributed datasets to Data Basin, bring or search for expertise in the Data Basin community
What does the Climate Center do?
The Center makes it easy to find documented climate and impacts datasets, manipulate and combine them to create visualization results that can be used for reports, proposals, workshops etc. The Climate Center:
- Allows you to upload your own datasets and share them publically or keep them private, to be shared by defined groups of users
- Provides documentation for climate or impacts dataset or map created in Data Basin (provided it is made available by the data sources)
- Features stories about individual projects or sets of data of particular interest (you can help us write features about YOUR datasets)
- Gives you the ability to download publically-shared climate-related datasets so you can manipulate them on your own computer if you prefer it that way
- Gives you access to visualization tools that allow you to combine datasets and make overlays on-line without needing GIS software on your computer
- Allows you to search profiles of users to find climate change and other experts
- Gives you access to searchable galleries (collections of datasets, maps, or people) that group datasets by themes
- Allows you to create working groups (class, workshops, project PIs, book chapter authors) that can share maps (either public or private to the group)
Who is the Climate Center built for?
Data Basin lowers the technical skills needed to visualize and create spatial datasets and maps. It allows the use of basic GIS software on the web thanks to a close collaboration with ESRI and Conservation Biology Institute (CBI) programming staff. Data storage, visualization, group sharing, search engines and directories are meant to be straight forward and easy to use. CBI provides technical support (data uploading help) for registered Data Basin users.
Scientists and decision makers, workshop participants and students, managers and corporate entities can now work together, easily share and manipulate spatial representations of past and projected shifts in climate and their impacts around the world. Anyone using the Climate Center can explore how the natural, physical, and cultural worlds may be impacted by past and future climate change.
The site will always become richer through data contributions from users and will always improve with constructive comments from users. Do not hesitate to contact us at databasin@consbio.org.
How does the Data Basin Climate Center relate to CAKE?
The Data Basin Climate Center was built in collaboration with the Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange (CAKE). CAKE supports individuals interested in developing the discipline of adaptation to climate change. Read more.
Who contributes and provides datasets to the Climate Center?
Data Basin works with many institutions, universities, agencies, research groups and individuals to provide the highest quality datasets as they become available.
