The NCAR Climate Data Guide: Connecting Data Experts with Users

Since its inception in 2012, the NCAR Climate Data Guide has provided curated, expert-user guidance on the most commonly used climate datasets, renalyses, and indices of climate variability and change. The resource has provided information to hundreds of thousands of users around the world. Over the past few years, the website for the Guide has been overhauled and entries expanded to cover products measuring the entire Earth system. In this talk, we present the current state of the Guide, provide examples of how the Guide is useful for users in different fields of climate studies, and make a community call for participation in expanding the Guide to include all datasets relevant for confronting the problems faced in Earth system science today.