reanalysis on climatedataguide.ucar.edu?

[hkershaw-brown]

Add DART-CAM6 reanalysis to climatedataguide.ucar.edu?

https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data/reanalysis

https://dart.ucar.edu/research/cam6-reanalysis/
https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/d345000/

[kdraeder]

The CDG's guidance about contributions includes the following (excerpted to focus on questions for discussion and outlining the work involved).

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Data Set Criteria

We are particularly looking to establish pages on observational or reanalysis datasets that meet the following criteria:
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In-demand for model evaluation, model forcing, model initialization, or data assimilation
Climatology or sufficient record length long-term studies
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Content of Contributions

1. What are the key strengths of this data set?
2. What are the key limitations of this data set?
3. What are the typical research applications of these data? What are examples from your work?
4. What are some common mistakes that users encounter when processing or interpreting these data?
5. What are the likely spurious (non-climatic) features, if any, of timeseries derived from these data?
6. What corrections were applied to account for changes in observing systems, sampling methods or density, and satellite drift or degredation?
7. Describe any conversion steps that are necessary or general strategies to compare these data with model output.
8. What are some comparable data sets, if any? Why use this data set instead of another?
9. How is uncertainty characterized in these data?
10. Can you recommend any cloud platforms and/or online plotting tools where one can visualize and interact with these data? Please point to those resources, as well as share a few figures from your own work.
11. Are there any publicly available pieces of code that illustrate how to access and analyze these data? If so, where?
12. Provide a summary statement about these data and their utility for research and model evaluation.

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The seminar suggests a 500 word description with pictures, which covers those items,
which seems a little implausible, unless it involves a lot of references.
Writing dense descriptions takes longer than longer descriptions,
so I'm guessing that this would take a couple days to cover the items that I know about.
The items I don't know much about could take a lot longer, unless a local expert wants to contribute.
Does this sound right?
Would it be worth the time?

The second step (this is the first) would be to contact CDG with a short description
to see whether they think that it fits.

[kdraeder]

This will probably need input from @jlaucar andor @mgharamti.
I can't add them as Participants.

[hkershaw-brown]

added them to issue

[hkershaw-brown]

Moving this to a discussion rather than a GitHub issue.