Implementation of FAIR principles in the IPCC: the WGI AR6 Atlas repository
Maialen Iturbide, Jesús Fernández, José Manuel Gutiérrez, Anna Pirani, David Huard, Alaa Al Khourdajie, Jorge Baño‐Medina, Joaquín Bedia, Ana Casanueva, Ezequiel Cimadevilla, Antonio S. Cofiño, Matteo De Felice, Javier Díez-Sierra, Markel García‐Díez, James Goldie, Dimitris A. Herrera, Sixto Herrera, Rodrigo Manzanas, Josipa Milovac, Aparna Radhakrishnan, Daniel San-Martín, Alessandro Spinuso, Kristen M. Thyng, Claire Trenham, Özge Yelekçi
Abstract
The Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has adopted the FAIR Guiding Principles. We present the Atlas chapter of Working Group I (WGI) as a test case. We describe the application of the FAIR principles in the Atlas, the challenges faced during its implementation, and those that remain for the future. We introduce the open source repository resulting from this process, including coding (e.g., annotated Jupyter notebooks), data provenance, and some aggregated datasets used in some figures in the Atlas chapter and its interactive companion (the Interactive Atlas), open to scrutiny by the scientific community and the general public. We describe the informal pilot review conducted on this repository to gather recommendations that led to significant improvements. Finally, a working example illustrates the re-use of the repository resources to produce customized regional information, extending the Interactive Atlas products and running the code interactively in a web browser using Jupyter notebooks.