Holistic Data Discovery: Navigating Human Health, Food, Environment, and Climate

Identifying optimal datasets for analyzing extreme climate events and their repercussions on human health and ecological systems is pivotal. The profusion of datasets available at data centers complicates this selection process. Scientific publications utilizing these datasets provide essential connections between datasets and pertinent research domains. Establishing these connections is, however, hampered by two primary hurdles: infrequent dataset citations within research articles and inconsistent topic categorization in literature. This presentation outlines the strategies employed at the Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) to navigate these challenges. At GES DISC, connections are made between specific datasets and corresponding research papers. These papers are subsequently sorted into themes encompassing human and ecosystem health, environmental consequences, and extreme climatic events. Users can navigate these themes to pinpoint their area of interest, linking them directly to the applicable datasets housed at the GES DISC.