Compilation of a guideline providing comprehensive information on freely available climate change data and facilitating their efficient retrieval

Abstract

This paper deals with the subject of elaborating a guideline on the use of climate data, which have been made available to the climate-change and climate-impact community as well as to the general public. The therein descripted data is a gridded dataset on 1 km nominal resolution for Austria, consisting of observational data as well as of bias corrected climate model output. It covers the area of Austria. The aim of this paper is to make reference to this guideline that is by now accessible for those interested in using the dataset as well as for those creating datasets planning to provide guidance to their data users.

Keywords

• Guideline on the use of freely available past and future climate data across Austria
• Cooperation with potential users
• Evaluation
• Current climate
• Climate modeling
• Example of use