Abstract. eLTER was a “Horizon 2020” project with the aim of
advancing the development of long-term ecosystem research infrastructure in
Europe. This paper describes how eLTER Information System infrastructure has
been expanded by a climate service data product providing access to
specifically pre-processed regional climate change scenario data from a
state-of-the-art regional climate model ensemble of the Coordinated Regional
Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) for 702 registered ecological
research sites across Europe. This tailored, expandable, easily accessible
dataset follows FAIR principles and allows researchers to describe the
climate at these sites, explore future projections for different climate
change scenarios and make regional climate change assessments and impact
studies. The data for each site are available for download from the EUDAT
collaborative data infrastructure B2SHARE service and can be easily accessed
and visualised through the Dynamic Ecological Information Management System
– Site and Dataset Registry (DEIMS-SDR), a web-based information management
system which shares detailed information and metadata on ecological research
sites around the globe. This paper describes these data and how they can be
accessed by users through the extended eLTER Information System
architecture. The data and supporting information are available from B2SHARE. Each
individual site (702 sites are available) dataset has its own DOI. To aid
data discovery, a persistent B2SHARE lookup table has been created which
matches the DOIs of the individual B2SHARE record with each DEIMS site ID.
This lookup table is available at https://doi.org/10.23728/b2share.bf41278d91b445bda4505d5b1eaac26c (eLTER
EURO-CORDEX Climate Service, 2020).
A climate service for ecologists: sharing pre-processed EURO-CORDEX regional climate scenario data using the eLTER Information System
