Developing a web portal to facilitate the use of Regional Climate Model output by climate change impacts researchers

Regional Climate

Model Output

- Large high-resolution gridded dataset

- Binary format

- Many climate variables

Project Partner

Climate Change Impacts Researchers

- Limited capacity to handle large binary datasets

- Use ASCII data or GIS layers

- Interest in only some variables for some locations

Project Partners

Further Information Project website www.climddir.org Portal video demonstration http://www.climddir.org/node/31 Project manager Ian Macadam (i.macadam@unsw.edu.au) Funding This project is supported by the Australian National Data Service (ANDS). ANDS is supported by the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy Program and the Education Investment Fund (EIF) Super Science Initiative.

Climate Model Downscaling Data for Impacts Research: An ANDS Initiative

Ian Macadam, David Fuchs, Adam Hotz, Andy Pitman ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science

Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales

Wheat Yields

Dr De Li Liu

Rivers and Wetlands

Prof Richard Kingsford

Human Health

Dr Hilary Bambrick

Species Distributions

Dr Linda Beaumont

Example data requests from a preliminary version of the portal