cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.1594/wdcc/wrf12_hadgem2_rcp45
title: WASCAL WRF12km with HadGEM2-ES r1i1p1 forcing from the CMIP5 RCP4.5 experiment

description: Project: West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use - With climate change being one of the most severe challenges to Africa in the 21st century, West Africa is facing an urgent need to develop effective adaptation and mitigation measures. WASCAL (West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use, http://www.wascal.org) is a large-scale research-focused Climate Service Centre designed to help tackle this challenge and thereby enhance the resilience of human and environmental systems to climate change and increased variability. It does so by strengthening the research infrastructure and capacity in West Africa related to climate change and by pooling the expertise of ten West African countries and Germany. Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), WASCAL is implemented in a collaborative effort by West African and German partners. An integral part of its climate services is the provisioning of a new set of high resolution, ensemble-based regional climate change scenarios for the region of West Africa. An ensemble approach is chosen to address model uncertainties and provide statistical estimates on possible future climate change scenarios. The ensemble is composed of three regional climate models, WRFV3.5.1, COSMO-CLM 4.18, and REGCM4. Three Earth System Models from the CMIP5 project are downscaled by each of the regional models, MPI-ESM, GFDL-ESM2M, and HadGEM2-ES for the historical period from 1980 to 2010 and for the RCP4.5 scenario from 2020 to 2050 and from 2070 to 2100. Control runs are created by downscaling the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts ERA-Interim re-analysis from 1980 to 2014. Two sets of resolutions are made available, 60km and 12km, for a large domain covering the greater region of West Africa from 25W to 25E and 5S to 25N. Summary: This experiment (2006-2100) uses the data from the WRF60_hadgem2_rcp45 experiment as forcing data for downscaling to 12km resolution by the regional model WRFV3.5.1 for the region of West Africa. 'rcp45' is an experiment of the CMIP5 - Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (https://pcmdi.llnl.gov/mips/cmip5). 4.1 rcp45 (4.1 RCP4.5) - future projection (2006-2300) forced by RCP4.5. Experiment design:https://cera-www.dkrz.de/WDCC/ui/Entry.jsp?acronym=Taylor_CMIP5_design.pdf . This experiment is divided into several time slices of 11 years. The first year of each time slice is used as a spin-up phase and should not be used in the analysis. All experiments with HadGEM forcing refer to a calendar with 360 days. The 12 km resolution of this experiment is the second step of the two step downscaling WRF experiment.
DOI: 10.1594/wdcc/wrf12_mpiesm_hist
title: WASCAL WRF12km with MPI-ESM MR r1i1p1 forcing from the CMIP5 historical experiment

description: Project: West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use - With climate change being one of the most severe challenges to Africa in the 21st century, West Africa is facing an urgent need to develop effective adaptation and mitigation measures. WASCAL (West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use, http://www.wascal.org) is a large-scale research-focused Climate Service Centre designed to help tackle this challenge and thereby enhance the resilience of human and environmental systems to climate change and increased variability. It does so by strengthening the research infrastructure and capacity in West Africa related to climate change and by pooling the expertise of ten West African countries and Germany. Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), WASCAL is implemented in a collaborative effort by West African and German partners. An integral part of its climate services is the provisioning of a new set of high resolution, ensemble-based regional climate change scenarios for the region of West Africa. An ensemble approach is chosen to address model uncertainties and provide statistical estimates on possible future climate change scenarios. The ensemble is composed of three regional climate models, WRFV3.5.1, COSMO-CLM 4.18, and REGCM4. Three Earth System Models from the CMIP5 project are downscaled by each of the regional models, MPI-ESM, GFDL-ESM2M, and HadGEM2-ES for the historical period from 1980 to 2010 and for the RCP4.5 scenario from 2020 to 2050 and from 2070 to 2100. Control runs are created by downscaling the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts ERA-Interim re-analysis from 1980 to 2014. Two sets of resolutions are made available, 60km and 12km, for a large domain covering the greater region of West Africa from 25W to 25E and 5S to 25N. Summary: This experiment uses the data from the WRF60_mpiesm_historical experiment as forcing data for downscaling to 12km resolution by the regional model WRFV3.5.1 for the region of West Africa. 'historical' is an experiment of the CMIP5 - Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (https://pcmdi.llnl.gov/mips/cmip5). 3.2 historical (3.2 Historical) - Version 1: Simulation of recent past (1850 to 2005). Experiment design:https://cera-www.dkrz.de/WDCC/ui/Entry.jsp?acronym=Taylor_CMIP5_design.pdf . This experiment is divided into several time slices of 11 years. The first year of each time slice is used as a spin-up phase and should not be used in the analysis. All experiments with MPIESM forcing refer to a Gregorian calendar. The 12 km resolution of this experiment is the second step of the two step downscaling WRF experiment.
DOI: 10.1594/wdcc/wrf12_mpiesm_rcp45
title: WASCAL WRF12km with MPI-ESM MR r1i1p1 forcing from the CMIP5 RCP4.5 experiment

description: Project: West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use - With climate change being one of the most severe challenges to Africa in the 21st century, West Africa is facing an urgent need to develop effective adaptation and mitigation measures. WASCAL (West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use, http://www.wascal.org) is a large-scale research-focused Climate Service Centre designed to help tackle this challenge and thereby enhance the resilience of human and environmental systems to climate change and increased variability. It does so by strengthening the research infrastructure and capacity in West Africa related to climate change and by pooling the expertise of ten West African countries and Germany. Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), WASCAL is implemented in a collaborative effort by West African and German partners. An integral part of its climate services is the provisioning of a new set of high resolution, ensemble-based regional climate change scenarios for the region of West Africa. An ensemble approach is chosen to address model uncertainties and provide statistical estimates on possible future climate change scenarios. The ensemble is composed of three regional climate models, WRFV3.5.1, COSMO-CLM 4.18, and REGCM4. Three Earth System Models from the CMIP5 project are downscaled by each of the regional models, MPI-ESM, GFDL-ESM2M, and HadGEM2-ES for the historical period from 1980 to 2010 and for the RCP4.5 scenario from 2020 to 2050 and from 2070 to 2100. Control runs are created by downscaling the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts ERA-Interim re-analysis from 1980 to 2014. Two sets of resolutions are made available, 60km and 12km, for a large domain covering the greater region of West Africa from 25W to 25E and 5S to 25N. Summary: This experiment (2006-2100) uses the data from the WRF60_mpiesm_rcp45 experiment as forcing data for downscaling to 12km resolution by the regional model WRFV3.5.1 for the region of West Africa. 'rcp45' is an experiment of the CMIP5 - Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (https://pcmdi.llnl.gov/mips/cmip5). 4.1 rcp45 (4.1 RCP4.5) - future projection (2006-2300) forced by RCP4.5. Experiment design:https://cera-www.dkrz.de/WDCC/ui/Entry.jsp?acronym=Taylor_CMIP5_design.pdf . This experiment is divided into several time slices of 11 years. The first year of each time slice is used as a spin-up phase and should not be used in the analysis. All experiments with MPIESM forcing refer to a Gregorian calendar. The 12 km resolution of this experiment is the second step of the two step downscaling WRF experiment.
DOI: 10.1594/wdcc/wrf60_eraint_ctrl
title: WASCAL WRF60km with ERA-INT forcing as control experiment

description: Project: West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use - With climate change being one of the most severe challenges to Africa in the 21st century, West Africa is facing an urgent need to develop effective adaptation and mitigation measures. WASCAL (West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use, http://www.wascal.org) is a large-scale research-focused Climate Service Centre designed to help tackle this challenge and thereby enhance the resilience of human and environmental systems to climate change and increased variability. It does so by strengthening the research infrastructure and capacity in West Africa related to climate change and by pooling the expertise of ten West African countries and Germany. Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), WASCAL is implemented in a collaborative effort by West African and German partners. An integral part of its climate services is the provisioning of a new set of high resolution, ensemble-based regional climate change scenarios for the region of West Africa. An ensemble approach is chosen to address model uncertainties and provide statistical estimates on possible future climate change scenarios. The ensemble is composed of three regional climate models, WRFV3.5.1, COSMO-CLM 4.18, and REGCM4. Three Earth System Models from the CMIP5 project are downscaled by each of the regional models, MPI-ESM, GFDL-ESM2M, and HadGEM2-ES for the historical period from 1980 to 2010 and for the RCP4.5 scenario from 2020 to 2050 and from 2070 to 2100. Control runs are created by downscaling the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts ERA-Interim re-analysis from 1980 to 2014. Two sets of resolutions are made available, 60km and 12km, for a large domain covering the greater region of West Africa from 25W to 25E and 5S to 25N. Summary: This experiment uses 'CMIP5 ECMWF-ERAINT reanalysis data' as forcing data for downscaling to 60km resolution by the regional model WRFV3.5.1 for the region of West Africa. The 'control'-run is a reanalysis of observed data similar to an experiment of the CMIP5 - Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (https://pcmdi.llnl.gov/mips/cmip5). This experiment is divided into several time slices of 11 years. The first year of each time slice is used as a spin-up phase and should not be used in the analysis. The 60 km resolution of this experiment is an intermediate step to the 12km downscaling WRF experiment.
DOI: 10.1594/wdcc/wrf60_gfdlesm_hist
title: WASCAL WRF60km with GFDL-ESM r1i1p1 forcing from the CMIP5 historical experiment

description: Project: West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use - With climate change being one of the most severe challenges to Africa in the 21st century, West Africa is facing an urgent need to develop effective adaptation and mitigation measures. WASCAL (West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use, http://www.wascal.org) is a large-scale research-focused Climate Service Centre designed to help tackle this challenge and thereby enhance the resilience of human and environmental systems to climate change and increased variability. It does so by strengthening the research infrastructure and capacity in West Africa related to climate change and by pooling the expertise of ten West African countries and Germany. Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), WASCAL is implemented in a collaborative effort by West African and German partners. An integral part of its climate services is the provisioning of a new set of high resolution, ensemble-based regional climate change scenarios for the region of West Africa. An ensemble approach is chosen to address model uncertainties and provide statistical estimates on possible future climate change scenarios. The ensemble is composed of three regional climate models, WRFV3.5.1, COSMO-CLM 4.18, and REGCM4. Three Earth System Models from the CMIP5 project are downscaled by each of the regional models, MPI-ESM, GFDL-ESM2M, and HadGEM2-ES for the historical period from 1980 to 2010 and for the RCP4.5 scenario from 2020 to 2050 and from 2070 to 2100. Control runs are created by downscaling the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts ERA-Interim re-analysis from 1980 to 2014. Two sets of resolutions are made available, 60km and 12km, for a large domain covering the greater region of West Africa from 25W to 25E and 5S to 25N. Summary: This experiment uses 'CMIP5 GFDL r1i1p1 historical' forcing data for downscaling to 60km resolution by the regional model WRFV3.5.1 for the region of West Africa. 'historical' is an experiment of the CMIP5 - Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (https://pcmdi.llnl.gov/mips/cmip5). 3.2 historical (3.2 Historical) - Version 1: Simulation of recent past (1850 to 2005). Experiment design:https://cera-www.dkrz.de/WDCC/ui/Entry.jsp?acronym=Taylor_CMIP5_design.pdf . This experiment is divided into several time slices of 11 years. The first year of each time slice is used as a spin-up phase and should not be used in the analysis. All experiments with GFDL forcing refer to a calendar with 365 days (noleap). The 60 km resolution of this experiment is an intermediate step to the 12km downscaling WRF experiment.
DOI: 10.17026/dans-zrx-7xhu
title: Nitrogen leaching from natural ecosystems under global change: a modelling study

description: This repository contains output from nine simulations with the global terrestrial ecosystem model LPJ-GUESS, as described in (Braakhekke et al., Earth System Dynamics Discussions, 2017) Eight simulations represent a full factorial experiment to study the effects of climate change, atmospheric CO2 concentration, and atmospheric nitrogen deposition on terrestrial ecosystems. In these simulations either semi-constant, pre-industrial values or true time-series were used as model input for these variables. An additional simulation was performed with true climate, CO2 and N deposition, where ecosystem disturbances such as fire were switched off.
DOI: 10.18739/a2nk36626
title: Measurements of sea ice point-mass-balance using hotwire thickness gauges and ablation stakes during the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) Expedition in the Central Arctic (2019-2020)

description: The dataset contains ice thickness measurements made during the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) Expedition in the Central Arctic from October 2019 – September 2020. The data include time series measurements of ice thickness at 137 discrete, constant points in first- and second-year ice. Measurements were made using ablation stakes and hotwire thickness gauges, including change in positions of the ice bottom, ice surface, and snow surface. These measurements were used to compute ice thickness, and snow thickness, and pond depth, which can be used to derive ice growth, surface melt, and bottom melt. The contents include the full, quality-controlled dataset from the expedition, as well as site diagrams, maps, and select field photographs.
DOI: 10.25829/idiv.1880-17-3189
title: Global data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding environmental properties

description: Earthworm biodiversity and soil properties
DOI: 10.48557/l6owmm
title: Reach a multimodal dataset of the whole upper-limb during simple and complex movements

description: This dataset was collected to identify which sources of information (e.g., low-density vs. high-density surface electromyography, kinematics, tactile) are more informative during upper limb motor production and therefore exploitable for prosthetic applications. We designed a setup and an experimental protocol to collect data exploitable for this investigation on healthy subjects. The idea is to combine the high spatial resolution of sEMG (low density – Cometa Srl and high density – OT-Bioelettronica), measuring the myoelectric activation patterns of the forearm muscles actuating the wrist and the fingers, with kinematic (Vicon) and tactile information (haptic glove). While kinematics can be useful to correct EMG-based information during the execution of movements, tactile information can be helpful in increasing the information content during object manipulation and exploration.
DOI: 10.5065/d6nz85tb
title: Sea Ice Melt Ponds: Spectral Albedo, Version 1.0

description: Spectral albedos (from 350-2500nm) were measured every 5 m along the transect line, according to a tape measure laid out along the transect daily. The instrument used was an Analytical Spectral Devices FS3 (ASD FS3). Two spectrums were collected at each location, the first with the instrument oriented upward looking, and the second with the instrument oriented downward looking.
DOI: 10.5067/aircraft/intexa/aerosol-tracegas
title: INTEX-A Satellite data - ASCII File
DOI: 10.5067/aircraft/intexb/aerosol-tracegas
title: INTEX-B Satellite data - ICARTT File
DOI: 10.5067/aqua/airs/data201
title: Aqua AIRS L2 standard retrieval product using AIRS IR and AMSU, without-HSB V6
DOI: 10.5067/aura/omi/data2004
title: OMI/Aura Near UV Aerosol Optical Depth and Single Scattering Albedo 1-orbit L2 Swath 13x24 km
DOI: 10.5067/bcw6ci3txocy
title: IceBridge ATM L4 Surface Elevation Rate of Change, Version 1
DOI: 10.5067/caliop/calipso/lid_l2_vfm-standard-v4-10
title: CALIPSO LID_L2_VFM-Standard HDF File - Version 4.10
DOI: 10.5067/ikbww4ryhf1q
title: MEaSUREs Antarctic Grounding Line from Differential Satellite Radar Interferometry, Version 2
DOI: 10.5067/modis/mod021km.006
title: MOD021KM MODIS/Terra Calibrated Radiances 5-Min L1B Swath 1km
DOI: 10.5067/qkmtq02c2u56
title: Pre-IceBridge MCoRDS L2 Ice Thickness, Version 1
DOI: 10.5067/umfn22vhggmh
title: IceBridge DMS L0 Raw Imagery, Version 1
DOI: 10.5159/iqb_pisa_2018_v1
title: Programme for International Student Assessment 2018 (PISA 2018)
title: Programme for International Student Assessment 2015 (PISA 2018)

description: Mit Durchführung des Projektes liegen die Ergebnisse aus der siebten Erhebungsrunde der PISA-Studie vor, bei der 2018 die Lesekompetenz im Mittelpunkt stand. Die fünfzehnjährigen Schüler*innen bearbeiteten Aufgaben aus den Bereichen Lesen, Mathematik, Naturwissenschaften sowie einen Fragebogen zum demographischen Hintergrund, dem Unterrichts- und Schulgeschehen sowie zur Einstellung von Globalität. Befragt wurden außerdem die Schulleitungen, Lehrkräfte und Eltern. Die wichtigste Änderung für die Testteilnehmer*innen bestand in der Umstellung auf adaptives Testen für die Hauptdomäne Lesen. Außerdem wurde in PISA 2018 neben der Bearbeitung der Tests am Computer ein verfeinertes Modell zur Skalierung der Daten verwendet, welche die Schwierigkeit der Testaufgaben, die Fähigkeit der Jugendlichen und das Potenzial von Testaufgaben berücksichtigt, tatsächlich kompetente von weniger kompetenten Schüler*innen zu unterscheiden.
description: With the implementation of the project, the results of the seventh round of the PISA study, which focused on reading comprehension in 2018, are now available. The fifteen-year-old students* completed tasks in the areas of reading, mathematics, and science, as well as a questionnaire on demographic background, classroom and school activities, and attitudes toward globality. School administrators, teachers and parents were also interviewed. The most important change for the test participants was the switch to adaptive testing for the main domain of reading. In addition, PISA 2018 used a refined data scaling model that takes into account the difficulty of the test items, the ability of the young people and the potential of test items to distinguish truly competent from less competent students.
description: Self-administered questionnaire: Paper
description: Self-administered questionnaire: Computer-assisted (CASI)
description: Educational measurements and tests
description: Messungen und Tests: Computerbasierter Test
description: Measurements and Tests: Computer assisted test
description: Schüler (15-jährig) (N=5.451) sowie der Jahrgangsstufe 9 (N=3.567) an allgemeinbildenden Schulen (N=91); Lehrkräfte (N=4.950)
description: Students (15-year old) (N=5,451) and in grade 9 (N=3,567) in General Education Schools (N=91); Teachers (N=4,950)
description: Wahrscheinlichkeitsauswahl: Mehrstufige Zufallsauswahl
DOI: 10.5258/soton/wp00683
title: Census/projection-disaggregated gridded population datasets, adjusted to match the corresponding UNPD 2020 estimates, for 51 countries across sub-Saharan Africa using building footprints

description: Census/projection-disaggregated gridded population datasets, adjusted to match the corresponding UNPD 2020 estimates, for 51 countries across sub-Saharan Africa using building footprints. Source of building footprints "Ecopia Vector Maps Powered by Maxar Satellite Imagery" © 2020.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10650361
title: Dataset: Increased North African dust fluxes and higher productivity in the Eastern Equatorial Atlantic Ocean linked to stronger trade winds from about 2.7 million years ago

description: This data is associated with the manuscript:

Crocker, A.J., Jewell, A.M., Mitsunaga B.A. et al. Increased North African Dust Fluxes and Higher Productivity in the Eastern Equatorial Atlantic Ocean linked to stronger trade winds from about 2.7 Million Years Ago. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology (2025).

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ODP Site 659 d18O and d13C of G. ruber

ODP Site 659 d18O and d13C of C. wuellerstorfi

ODP Site 659 Uk37 ratios and estimated sea surface temperatures

ODP Site 659 estimated local seawater d18O

ODP Site 659 concentration and flux of C37 alkenones

ODP Site 659 X-ray fluorescence core scan elemental count data and calibrated [Al+Fe]/[Si+K+Ti] ratios

ODP Site 659 dust flux estimates

ODP Site 659 %CaCO3 and %total organic carbon 

ODP Site 659 revised splice ties and age-depth ties

ODP Site 662 X-ray fluorescence core scan elemental count data

ODP Site 662 %CaCO3 and %total organic carbon
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1194023
title: Airborne Pushbroom Imaging Spectrometer Data Over South Africa

description: Four research flights were conducted over Johannesburg and the Eastern Highveld of South Africa in 2007. Instrumentation on board the aircraft measured in-situ temperature, pressure, NOy, GPS position, aerosol size spectrum. A high-spectral resolution pushbroom imaging spectrometer was fitted in nadir-viewing geometry.