Neil Dymond-Green, Service Director for ImpactFinn Dymond-Green investigates how international macrodata in the UK Data Service collection is supporting research in the area of climate change.
At the UK Data Service, we’re excited that we are able to provide access to some fantastic open international data from different data producers such as the World Bank, the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund and the OECD.
As COP26 approaches, and our minds are china rcs data increasingly drawn to discussions of climate change and what humans can do to slow our contribution to it, we’re also pleased that we can offer access to the rich seams of International Energy Agency data to researchers and students in higher and further education.
Exploring data-enhanced climate change research
It felt timely to explore where the data we hold is being used in recent climate change research.
To do so, we ran a search based on citations of the data coupled with common related terms such as ‘climate change’ and ‘global warming’. Our first search revealed some interesting examples of where researchers had correctly cited the data they used. We continued our searches to attempt to draw out other examples of uses of the international data the UK Data Service provides access to, even where not (or only partially) cited.