Implementation of FAIR principles in the IPCC: the WGI AR6 Atlas repository

Tuesday, December 13, 2022

More scientific results in relation to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. In this case, we are happy to announce that, in collaboration with our colleagues at the Santander Meteorology Group and many other institutions, we have contributed to the paper Implementation of FAIR principles in the IPCC: the WGI AR6 Atlas repository, published in the journal scientific data.

This work describes the application of FAIR principles (more info about FAIR) in the Atlas chapter of Working Group I and the challenges faced during its implementation. A specific post on the implementation of these principles in the Interactive Atlas was already published on our website.

The paper can be found at the journal website and its abstract is shown below:

The Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has adopted the FAIR Guiding Principles. We present the Atlas chapter of Working Group I (WGI) as a test case. We describe the application of the FAIR principles in the Atlas, the challenges faced during its implementation, and those that remain for the future. We introduce the open source repository resulting from this process, including coding (e.g., annotated Jupyter notebooks), data provenance, and some aggregated datasets used in some figures in the Atlas chapter and its interactive companion (the Interactive Atlas), open to scrutiny by the scientific community and the general public. We describe the informal pilot review conducted on this repository to gather recommendations that led to significant improvements. Finally, a working example illustrates the re-use of the repository resources to produce customized regional information, extending the Interactive Atlas products and running the code interactively in a web browser using Jupyter notebooks.