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Field

Requirement

Example

Description

Associated Media

This field can be left blank initially. Once a URL or DOI for the report is available, this can be added.

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/

Is Part Of

Please complete with the following format:

<<REPORT NAME>> of the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC AR6

Summary for Policymakers of the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC AR6

Coverage

Field

Requirement

Example

Spatial Coverage

Describe the spatial region, area or named place covered by the dataset

Global

Spatial Aggregation

Describe the type of spatial aggregation used in the dataset (e.g. region, area, grid, etc.)

Global

Spatial Resolution

This is an optional field, to be included only if applicable.

Describe the level of spatial detail provided in the data.

See the link to the left for more detail on this field.

Reanalysis: 0.25° x 0.25° Mean, spread and members: 0.5° x 0.5°


Start Date

The date of the earliest data point in the data.

If you are unsure of the day and month, you can include a default value of 01 Jan.

01/01/1890

End Date

The date of the latest data point in the data.

If you are unsure fo the day and month, you can include a default value of 31 Dec

31/12/2050

Temporal Resolution

Select the minimum time period resolvable in the dataset distribution from the dropdown list.

ANNUAL

Geographical Bounding Box

Lower Left Latitute

The geographic bounding box describes a "north up" area. The lower left latitude will be smaller than the upper right latitude.

For a dataset with global coverage enter -90.0000

-90.0000

Lower Left Longitude

The geographic bounding box describes a "north up" area. The lower left longitude will be smaller than the upper right Longitude.

For a dataset with global coverage enter -180.0000

-180.0000

Upper Right Latitude

The geographic bounding box describes a "north up" area. The upper right latitude will be larger than the lower left latitude.

For a dataset with global coverage enter 90.0000

90.0000

Upper Right Longitude

The geographic bounding box describes a "north up" area. The upper right longitude will be larger than the lower left longitude.

For a dataset with global coverage enter 180.0000

180.0000

Provenance

Field

Requirement

Example

Purpose

Please enter:

Data used by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) authors and supplied for archiving to MetadataWorks Ltd by the Technical Support Unit (TSU) for IPCC Working Group II (WGII).

Data used by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) authors and supplied for archiving to MetadataWorks Ltd by the Technical Support Unit (TSU) for IPCC Working Group II (WGII).

Source

Describe the source(s) for the data being archived. Where existing datasets or databases were used, please include the version and access date of the dataset o or database.

Accessibility

Field

Requirement

Example

Usage

Licence

Where archiving an entire pre-existing dataset, or a subset of a pre existing dataset, include here the licence of the input data.

Where the data has been transformed sufficiently to be considered a creative work of the authors, please use https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

If you are unsure about which license to use, please get in touch with the WG2 TSU.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Resource Creator

This is the field for the authors of the dataset being archived. Please use one field per name, using the following format:

<<LAST NAME>>, <FIRST NAME OR INITAL>>

Smith, Will

Elliot, T.S

Investigations

This field is optional and can be left blank.

The field is intended to promote any unpublished projects using the data (but is unlikely to be relevant for WG2 final data).

Is Referenced By

This field can be left blank initially. Once a URL or DOI for the report is available, this can be added.

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/

References

This field is optional. It can be used for DOIs or URL links to other papers that utalise this dataset.

Access

Assess URL

Leave blank

Access Service

Please enter:

Available for download from the IPCC Data Catalogue.

Available for download from the IPCC Data Catalogue.

Jurisdiction

Leave blank

Language

This should list all the languages in which the dataset metadata and underlying data is made available

en

Format

Please indicate the file format of your final data files. Where there is more than one type, you can add multiple fields.

Formats should be as per https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml


text/csv

application/vnd.ms-excel

application/x-netcdf

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