{"id":499,"date":"2024-09-25T09:37:53","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T08:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/applied-weather-climate\/?page_id=499"},"modified":"2025-03-13T00:15:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T00:15:02","slug":"open-data-catalogue","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/applied-weather-climate\/open-data-catalogue\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Data Catalogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Welcome to the Hub for Applied Weather and Climate Research (HAWC) Dataset Catalogue. This platform has been developed to centralise and showcase the diverse range of open-access datasets produced by researchers within the Department of Meteorology and its associated centres. Many valuable datasets are currently scattered across various repositories, known only to their authors or a small group. 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