Profiling Open Digital Repositories in the Atmospheric and Climate Sciences: An Initial Survey.

As digital research data proliferate and expectations for sharing data escalate, the landscape of open data repositories is becoming more complex. Data sharing is especially important in the atmospheric and climate sciences, where data integration and reuse can have significant impact on the advancement of research on climate change. This study analyzed 38 open digital repositories in the atmospheric and climate sciences using 55 criteria to characterize the repositories based on content analysis of the repository websites. The resulting repository profiles offer systematic descriptions of capabilities, services, and other characteristics for identifying specific repository features and comparing them across repositories. The profiles are of value for data curation education, researchers in the geosciences, and librarians and others providing data services in the sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]