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Making climate data free for all

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International workshop will propose ways of creating a comprehensive climate databank.

Meteorologists are meeting this week to hammer out a solution to one of the thorniest problems in climate science: how to make raw climate data freely available to all.

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Smith, R. Making climate data free for all. Nature (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2010.448

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