World Data Center for Climate – Repository for the Earth System Sciences

Booth
In session Booths , Sept. 3, 2025, 12:00 – 10:45
Exact timing: 12:00 – 10:45
Room info: Foyer

Lammert, Andrea¹ , Hertwig, E.¹ , Krüss, B.¹

The World Data Center for Climate ( WDCC ) is a repository hosted by the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) in Hamburg, Germany. It provides access to and offers long-term archiving for data relevant for climate and Earth System research in a highly standardized manner following the FAIR principles. WDCC is an accredited regular member of the World Data System (WDS) since 2003 and certified as a Trustworthy Data Repository by CoreTrustSeal ( https://www.coretrustseal.org ).

WDCC services are aimed at both scientists who produce data (e.g. long-term archiving to fulfill the guidelines of good scientific practice) and those who re-use published data for new research. In Earth System Sciences often a big quantity of data is produced and needed for climate research. This is especially true for climate model output. To enable scientists to re-use data also across
domains, it is essential that data is archived including rich metadata. Before data is published in WDCC, it undergoes multiple checks and curation. Recently WDCC has established its own standard for NetCDF file headers, so that only data fulfilling this standard are accepted for publication.

We will be available at the booth to provide advice on data preparation, submission, publication -
how to get more credit out of your work!