Permissions and licensing
Here are the outlines for using visualizations and data, including attribution, citation, and licensing requirements for various datasets.
This Global Climate Risk Platform sources data from various platforms and data sources and processes these datasets to create simplified yet meaningful and impactful visualisations. We try to make sure that, if the content on this site was not created by the operator, the rights in copyright of third parties were respected. In particular, content of third parties is marked as such and attributed as applicable. Nevertheless, should you notice a breach of copyright, you are requested to let us know. If we become aware of a breach of the law, we will remove this content immediately.
The list below details the various datasets used within the Global Climate Risk Platform and their license/citations.
Anyone using the visualisations available on the Global Climate Risk Platform for commercial or non-commercial purposes can reuse or share the products under following conditions:
- User must attribute the original source of visualization to Global Climate Risk Platform and provide links to the original visualization or https://globalclimaterisks.org.
- User provide proper citations for the original data sources for any non-commercial usage. The list is available below.
- User must contact the original data provider for proper licensing if they wish to use it for commercial purposes.
Extreme Weather Events
Arctic Sea Ice extent
Arctic Sea Ice age
NSIDC: 0749
NSIDC: 0611
Arctic Sea Ice Area
IPCC
Greenland Surface melt extent
Greenland Ice Sheet Today is produced at the National Snow and Ice Data Center by Ted Scambos, Julienne Stroeve, and Lora Koenig with support from NASA. NSIDC thanks Jason Box, Xavier Fettweis, and Thomas Mote for data and collaboration
Mote, Thomas L. and Mark R. Anderson. 1995. Variations in snowpack melt on the Greenland ice sheet based on passive microwave measurements. J. Glac. 41(137): 51-60.
Additional references:
Mote, Thomas L. 2007. Greenland surface melt trends 1973-2007: Evidence of a large increase in 2007. Geophysical Research Letters 34, L22507. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2007GL031976.
Mote, T. L. 2014. MEaSUREs Greenland Surface Melt Daily 25km EASE-Grid 2.0, Version 1. Boulder, Colorado USA. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. doi: https://doi.org/10.5067/MEASURES/CRYOSPHERE/nsidc-0533.001.
