From 4e76da2cab64ee80f9c61fd5952f4943b036ded0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gertjan van den Burg Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 14:50:49 +0000 Subject: Add global_co2 to repository Downloading this dataset is difficult on Travis and it is likely that it is licensed for redistribution (CC-BY-3), so we include it in the repository directly from now on. --- datasets/global_co2/README.md | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'datasets/global_co2/README.md') 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. ![Plot of global_co2 dataset](./global_co2.png) -- cgit v1.2.3