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Data on demand

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Climate scientists are under pressure to make their data — and their methods — more openly available, both to fellow scientists and the public. Now, open-access climate science is becoming easier than ever.

As a climate modeller at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, Gavin Schmidt is used to writing computer code. But a recent paper he wrote for a statistics journal presented a new experience — the journal required him to submit the code as part of the supplementary material, and the code had to be ready to run by anyone who wanted to download it. “I had to learn all these things from scratch. In the old days, I would have made a figure using home-made programs. It would have taken me less time to do the figure, but people wouldn't have been able to use it,” Schmidt says.

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Figure 1: Comparison of GISTEMP and ccc-gistemp annual mean global surface temperature anomalies (combined land/ocean).

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