Are We at Risk of Losing the Current Generation of Climate Researchers to Data Science?

Climate model output has progressively increased in size over the past decades and is expected to continue to rise in the future. Consequently, the research time expended by Early Career Researchers (ECRs) on data-intensive activities is displacing the time spent in fostering novel scientific ideas...

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Autores: Jain, Shipra, Mindlin, Julia, Koren, Gerbrand, Gulizia, Carla, Steadman, Claudia, Langendijk, Gaby S., Osman, Marisol, Abid, Muhammad A., Rao, Yuhan, Rabanal, Valentina
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/213072
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/213072
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:CLIMATE MODEL DATA
CLIMATE RESEARCH
CLIMATE SCIENCE
CMIP
EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS
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Sumario:Climate model output has progressively increased in size over the past decades and is expected to continue to rise in the future. Consequently, the research time expended by Early Career Researchers (ECRs) on data-intensive activities is displacing the time spent in fostering novel scientific ideas and expanding the frontiers of climate sciences. Here, we highlight an urgent need for a better balance between data-intensive and foundational climate science activities, more open-ended research opportunities that reinforce the scientific freedom of the ECRs, and strong coordinated action to provide infrastructure and resources to the ECRs working in under-resourced environments.