Data Rescue in the Southeast Asia and South Pacific Region: Challenges and Opportunities

Abstract

limate data, and their associated metadata, provide the fundamental building blocks for climate research and the development of climate products, applications, and services. In the past decade or so, the requirements of climate researchers to analyze and detect climate change and develop seasonal-tointerannual prediction systems have increased the importance of climate data. Climate data are also required for the preparation of climate models, which are widely used for verification of seasonal-to-inter-