RSOTC - The Regional State of the Climate dashboard

Monitorization of climate change is of utmost importance, especially as some trends observed are not fully (or at all) captured by climate projections. In order to do this, the State of the Climate reports are a great resource. However, most of the reports published do not fully follow FAIR principles, and  are focused on large areas (countries or whole continents). To improve this situation, the Regional State of the Climate (RSOTC) project is implementing a web-based dashboard providing near-real-time climate data (time series, maps and diagrams) for the Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) European regions. This dashboard shows the evolution of climate indicators as those used in the State of the climate reports, aggregated over these smaller socio-political regions, enabling in this way a policy-ready source of climate information. It allows users to visualise climate trends, such as rainfall and temperature, as they emerge from short term variability, and to easily access the underlying data, so they can compare it with the large amount of environmental and socio-economical data available for these regions. Users are also able to interact with the data to apply a toolbox for quick in-place  statistical analysis. It implements FAIR principles as a core requirement, to ensure open access, reproducibility, and transparency, including releasing the source code. The dashboard, and its underlying REST API, will be contributed to the ENVRI Catalogue of Services as a Science Demonstrator, being a complementary service similar to the ENVRI Dashboard for the State of the Environment. Finally integration with the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is also planned. This project is funded by the 1st OSCARS project open call (EU’s HorizonEurope programme, grant agreement No. 101129751).