IMO Climates & Weather Archives

[CorentinB]

New Dataset

• Agency: IMO
• Agency Division: Unknown
• Data Type: Climates/Weather
• Data Format: Unknown
• FTP/HTTP URL: ftp://researchdata.irimo.ir/research/

[x775]

As of this posting the above contains:

Total files: 1 486 191
Total size: 37.2 TB

Perhaps this should be split into a couple of different issues.

[JeremiahCurtis]

Looked into this one and it doesn't look like this is administered by any US agency

[CorentinB]

Is there a problem in the fact that it isn't administered by an US Agency ?

[JeremiahCurtis]

Not a problem....just noting that if we're focusing on data that are highly at-risk from the "presidential" administration, these might not be included since they are outside the purview of US government servers.....

[CorentinB]

But climate is a world problem, and not just an US problem no ?

[x775]

It very much is, but with respect to the aforementioned presidential administration in the US, prioritising and safekeeping data from American agencies is paramount (i.e. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/donald-trump-environmental-protection-agency-website-climate-change-global-warming-a7544621.html and others). This data, whilst equally important, is not collected nor hosted by US agencies and is thus consequently not facing the same risks, hence the need for prioritisation.

[gabefair]

Thank you for adding this ticket @CorentinB
Currently the scope of this project is to backup datasets that are threatened by our current presidential administration. I am not aware of any reason to suspect that Iran is threatening its datasets. Because of this I am considering closing this ticket. I will leave it open for now and just mark it as low priority.