On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Prem Kurian Philip <[email protected]>wrote:
> there has been a call for open sourcing the data and the programs used for > climate research. > > Wat exactly do u mean by open sourcing "data" ? And I've never heard of FOSS climate research software. A good search online should give u some idea about it. I believe some of this data is already out. A few questions: > 1) Is anyone on this list involved in climate research? and have they > looked at this code and data? > No I haven't. But what I do know is that there are many public "data sets" available online. These data sets are open for anyone to use. They can be found in Amazon EC2 cloud, google, private sites etc.. e.g. http://www.datawrangling.com/some-datasets-available-on-the-web > 2) Is it possible for this to be done with data obtained locally from > Indian Meteorological centres? > Not sure if this data can be obtained from meteorological centers. But the data should be available for download.. > I think this is a research any sufficiently motivated person can handle. > After all this is basically a question of plotting a time series > (temperature vs dates) to arrive at a possible trend. > Trust me, it's not that simple... It's way too complicated than that.. albeit interesting.. -- Yogesh. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
