ICO orders release of (mostly useless) weather station data [printer-friendly] • The Register

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"The Information Commissioner's Office has ordered the University of East Anglia to release a portion of a weather dataset. The University's Climatic Research Unit had shared the data with Georgia Tech but refused to release it more widely. A leading Oxford physicist [1], Professor Jonathan Jones, made the successful request, which the ICO has now published. The CRUTEM data set contains gridded weather station data provided by over 100 national meteorological services. Although CRU shared at least part of the data set with sympathetic academics, it had refused it to Jones and others in 2009, claiming several justifications. One justification that it was already available. Others were that the data wasn't already available but that making it available would breach copyright, harm the suppliers and jeopardise international relations. The ICO rejected all grounds and ordered it to be disclosed to Professor Jones...."

Link:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/28/ico_climategate_release_this_rubbish/print.html

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Tags:

oa.new oa.data ru.ps oa.uk oa.climate

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 13:21

Date published:

07/06/2011, 10:20