06 Climate and weather (Sources of meteorological research data)
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This article is from the Meteorology FAQ, by Tom Berg hcane@mobile.gulf.net with numerous contributions by others.
06 Climate and weather (Sources of meteorological research data)
<URL:http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov>
<URL:ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/>
<URL:telnet://hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov> (login "storm", password "research")
National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) of NOAA. Inventories and
metadata for various climate datasets are available, along with
selected datasets. Monthly Climatic Data for the World for the last
several years is available here in the directory
<URL:ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/mcdw/>. This is a World Data
Center A for meteorology.
<URL:http://www.cdc.noaa.gov>
The Climate Diagnostics Center (CDC), previously the Climate Research
Division of the ERL Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory
(CMDL), conducts diagnostic studies of climate variability on time
scales of months to centuries. CDC climatological data is archived in
netCDF format. This site gives access to metadata (information about
these datasets) which can be searched by various keywords; actual data
must be ordered from CAC by email or fill-in forms.
<URL:http://nic.fb4.noaa.gov>
<URL:ftp://nic.fb4.noaa.gov/pub/>
Climate Prediction Center. Climate products and services consisting
of operational prediction of climate variations, monitoring of the
climate system and development of data bases for determining current
global and regional climate anomalies and trends, and analysis of
their origins and linkages to the complete climate system, including
ENSO advisories and indices, and monthly mean and anomaly fields.
<URL:http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/DAAC_DOCS/gdaac_home.html>
Goddard Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC). Data and related
services for global change research and education. Data holdings cover
information on the upper atmosphere, atmospheric dynamics, and global
biosphere.
Products include data from Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS),
Total Ozone Mapping Satellites (TOMS), Coastal Zone Color Scanner
(CZCS), Sea-viewing Wide Field of View Sensor (SeaWiFS), Pathfinder
Advanced Very High Resolution (AVHRR) land sensor 4-Dimensional
Assimilation dataset, Total Ozone Vertical Sounder (TOVS) Pathfinder
data, Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere (TOGA) Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere
Response Experiment (COARE) Field Observation experiment data.
<URL:http://rainbow.ldgo.columbia.edu>
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University's Climate
Group's server. The "Data Library" contains various climatologies for
the ocean and atmosphere, and topographic data, along with a nice
interactive system for selection and display of data.
<URL:http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~rbrbrn/awsproj.html>
<URL:http://uwamrc.ssec.wisc.edu/amrchome.html>
The Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of
Wisconsin - Madison maintains archives of Antarctic data, including
synoptic reports and satellite images.
<URL:http://www.giss.nasa.gov/Data/>
<URL:ftp://ftp.giss.nasa.gov>
Various monthly mean data files, including surface temperature
anomalies, grids of various variables used in the GCM II (General
Circ. Model). Also various maps of vegetation indices, cultivation
indices, wetland ecosystems.
The ftp machine can not be accessed using a WWW browser -- you must
ftp directly. The file "GISS.HELP" contains an index. As of Feb 96,
the ftp server's data is somewhat outdated.
<URL:http://isccp.giss.nasa.gov>
ISCCP C2 cloud data from GISS. This data is no longer on the main
server, above.
<URL:http://strat-www.met.fu-berlin.de>
Free University of Berlin Stratospheric Research Group. Stratospheric
data (heights and temperatures).
<URL:http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/longpdk/>
"The Long Paddock" Climatology of Australia with focus on Queensland.
Maps of monthly rainfall, SOI, SST. Information on drought and the
southern oscillation.
<URL:http://thunder.atms.purdue.edu:80/toga_atlas/>
Climatology of the TOGA-COARE and adjacent regions.
<URL:http://www.cyberus.ca/~sorokoj/>
Links to many paleoclimate resources.
<URL:http://climate.sage.dri.edu>
Western Regional Climate Center
<URL:http://met-www.cit.cornell.edu/nrcc_home.html>
Northeast Regional Climate Center
<URL:http://sercc.dnr.state.sc.us/sercc.html>
Southeast Regional Climate Center
<URL:http://maestro.srcc.lsu.edu/srcc.html>
Southern Regional Climate Center
<URL:http://hpccsun.unl.edu/>
High Plains Regional Climate Center
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