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Read the story: Massive dataset on climate and fisheries now freely available to researchers

August 23, 2024

Scientists at NSF NCAR have linked together multiple state-of-the-art computer models to create a detailed picture of how conditions in the atmosphere affect the ocean, plankton, and fish. The result is an incredibly rich, high-resolution global dataset that stretches over multiple decades. 

The dataset can help answer scientific questions about how oceans are changing, and ultimately sets the stage for improved predictions of how a warming climate will impact fisheries—information that is critical to supporting sustainable management.

Details of the new dataset, which relied on the NSF NCAR Cheyenne supercomputer and the  Frontera supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, are published in the journal Progress in Oceanography. The work was funded by NSF, NASA, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

This new dataset is freely available to the community. 

To learn more about the making of this dataset and its larger implications, read the CISL News article.

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