[Mini-article] Cabot Institute article

[RaoOfPhysics]

Some work affiliated to Cabot Institute for the Environment, University of Bristol.

Current candidates:

• [Article Idea] Crustal carbonate build-up #19
• [Article Idea] Tree canopy and fractal scaling #22
• [Article Idea] Weather patterns and power outages #23

[RaoOfPhysics]

SUPERSEDED BY #19

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Alcott, L.J., Walton, C., Planavsky, N.J. et al. Crustal carbonate build-up as a driver for Earth’s oxygenation. Nat. Geosci. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01417-1

Model data and code available on GitHub – https://github.com/lalcott/d13Ctemp_2023 – but not well documented, so may not be straightforward to use.

[RaoOfPhysics]

SUPERSEDED BY #22

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Fischer, F. J., & Jucker, T. (2024). No evidence for fractal scaling in canopy surfaces across a diverse range of forest types. Journal of Ecology, 112, 470–486. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14244

• Data available under CC BY: https://portal.tern.org.au/metadata/TERN/4ff0b4c9-cfa0-4d09-9520-b5402adc583f
• Code (in R) available on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/10042139

Probably an easier candidate, in some sense.

[RaoOfPhysics]

SUPERSEDED BY #23

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Souto, L., Neal, R., Pope, J.O. et al. Identification of weather patterns and transitions likely to cause power outages in the United Kingdom. Commun Earth Environ 5, 49 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01217-w

Quoting from the relevant sections:

Data availability

The datasets used in this analysis are partly available on the internet. Weather pattern data up to 2020 are provided by https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.942896. Power system failure datasets reported to NaFIRS are proprietary and cannot be made publicly available by the authors. For more information about NaFIRS, including definitions and reporting requirements for power system failures in the UK, refer to https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/docs/2020/04/riio-ed1_regulatory_instructions_and_guidance_annex_f_-_interruptions.pdf.

Code availability

The analysis was performed in MATLAB R2021a. Code used in the analysis is provided by https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10476553 without the datasets.

[RaoOfPhysics]

I looked through around ten recent publications from the Cabot Institute and settled on these, based on a combination of having visualisations+tables that would be interesting to report and data+code being available.

[rolyp]

Another option we could pursue for this would be to post a request to the Cabot Institute mailing lists. That might also help with finding a collaborator/partner, and we could also be specific about the criteria we’re looking for (e.g. science based on publicly available data, relatively small datasets, of public interest, relevant to policy making, etc).

[RaoOfPhysics]

That makes sense. Do you have access to the mailing lists? (I’m slightly partial to the first paper listed above, though! Please take a look when you can and let me know what you think.)

[rolyp]

I do, we can probably sign you up as well (not sure if it’s restricted to UoB only). The crustal carbonate article looks like interesting science, I’ll take a look. (All other things being equal, we should certainly prioritise articles on topics we find interesting or would like to learn more about! :)

[rolyp]

Added some comments to the HackMD draft email, we can discuss more when we meet!

[rolyp]

@RaoOfPhysics Let’s use “Mini article n” issues (such as this one) to gather ideas for working with specific collaborators (in this case Cabot Institute) and consider them “closed” once we’ve made a concrete choice for which “[Article idea]“ to pursue. So if we commit to #19 at some point we’ll close this off.