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diff --git a/datasets/global_co2/README.md b/datasets/global_co2/README.md index d0bfa61..fd6975c 100644 --- a/datasets/global_co2/README.md +++ b/datasets/global_co2/README.md @@ -17,10 +17,13 @@ When using this data, please cite: } ``` -While it appears that the data is in the public domain, it is not clear what -license it is under. We therefore download it from the original source (hosted -at ETH Zurich) and convert it to our dataset format. The original data is -sampled every 4 years and cropped to recent history to reduce the length of -the series. +It seems that the work of Meinshausen et al. is licensed under [CC BY +3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), judging from [the +publication](https://www.geosci-model-dev.net/10/2057/2017/). This allows us +to redistribute this time series as part of the dataset, provided that the +above source is cited. We thus include the source csv in the repository. + +Note that the original data is sampled every 4 years and cropped to recent +history to reduce the length of the series.  |