LABEX L-IPSL Arctic Metadata Portal

Laura Cordero Llana (1, 2) , Karim Ramage (3) , Kathy S. Law (2) , Philippe Keckhut (4)

1 LSCE - Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette]
2 TROPO - LATMOS
3 IPSL - Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace
4 STRATO - LATMOS

The Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL) encompasses a wide diversity of projects that focus on the Arctic. From these observations the IPSL has generated a large number of datasets gathering Arctic observations. These observations include measurements on atmospheric chemical composition, snow micro-physical properties or ocean measurements. However, some of these datasets remain locally stored and there is a lack of public awareness regarding these resources, which has hindered their visualisation and sharing. This motivated the creation of the LABEX L-IPSL Arctic metadata Portal (http://climserv.ipsl.polytechnique.fr/arcticportal/), presented here, which improves the visibility of the variety of observations collected within the institute as well as the evaluation of numerical models. The LABEX L-IPSL Arctic metadata Portal will also promote new avenues in Arctic research within the IPSL and with other collaborating institutions.

Keywords: Arctic; Metadata; Observations; atmosphere; ocean; ice

Domains: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics [physics.ao-ph]

Laura Cordero Llana, Karim Ramage, Kathy S. Law, Philippe Keckhut. LABEX L-IPSL Arctic Metadata Portal. CODATA Data Science Journal, 2016, 15, pp.1-11. ⟨10.5334/dsj-2016-002⟩. ⟨insu-01324449⟩