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Preserving U.S. Climate Research
Coverage from Inside Climate News, Yale Environment 360, and others
Researchers and institutions outside the U.
S. federal government are building safeguards for climate data, public information, and scientific expertise affected by institutional disruption. Germany’s Climate Computing Center is preparing roughly five petabytes of storage for U.S. climate simulations, including material intended for the next IPCC assessment, while projects such as CMIP7-ark support redundant international repositories. In the United States, former NOAA communicators have rebuilt much of Climate.gov through Climate.us, and Climate Reserve is moving displaced researchers and projects into nonprofit and academic settings. Together, these efforts show how climate knowledge can be preserved through distributed archives, restored services, and alternative research homes.
If you read one thing
It offers the clearest broad introduction to the international effort to preserve climate data.
The evidence
It adds the distinct effort to keep climate expertise and disrupted research going through new nonprofit and academic placements.
Best explainer
It explains how climate.us helps maintain public access to climate information alongside the data-preservation and researcher-support efforts.
International backups for climate data
An international, distributed archive effort is taking shape to preserve U.S. climate simulations and research data. Redundant storage is intended to guard against political interference, cyberattacks, infrastructure failures, and physical destruction.
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Research centers, nonprofits and former federal staff are creating ways to preserve U.S. climate data, keep public information available and continue projects disrupted by federal cuts. In Hamburg, the German Climate Computing Center is preparing additional storage for U.S. climate simulations, while Climate.us has rebuilt public-facing resources and Climate Reserve is supporting researchers and projects in new institutions. These efforts aim to reduce the risk that data, expertise and services will become inaccessible, though their long-term capacity and funding remain uncertain.