08 Hydrology and glaciology (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.
08 Hydrology and glaciology (Sources of meteorological research data)
<URL:http://wwwdaac.msfc.nasa.gov>
Marshall Space Flight Center Distributed Active Archive Center
(MSFC.DAAC). Data holdings are primarily aimed at researchers
investigating facets of the hydrologic cycle. Available data includes
SSM/I NOAA/NASA Pathfinder Products, TOVS NOAA/NASA Pathfinder Path C1
Products, SSM/I Antenna Temperatures and Sensor Counts, and
Climatological Summaries.
<URL:http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu/NASA/GUIDE/>
The National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive
Center (NSIDC DAAC) maintains information about snow cover and
avalanches, glaciers and ice sheets, floating ice, ground ice and
permafrost, atmospheric ice, extra-terrestrial ices, paleoglaciology
and ice cores. Also see the NSIDC home page at
<URL:http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu/>.
<URL:http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov>
<URL:gopher://gopher.nohrsc.nws.gov>
<URL:ftp://ftp.nohrsc.nws.gov/pub>
National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center. Snow cover
measurements in US and Canada, and snow water equivalent data.
<URL:http://polar.wwb.noaa.gov/seaice/>
The National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Sea Ice home page.
Contents include the most recent automated sea ice analysis for both
hemispheres and ice drift forecast guidance.
<URL:http://www.dow.on.doe.ca/ice/home.ice.html>
Ice Services Branch of Environment Canada. Information about
available products and services, and some sample data.
<URL:ftp://meds02.met.fu-berlin.de/pub/SEA-ICE/>
The Institute for Meteorology of the Free Uni Berlin provides
operation sea-ice maps. Text is mostly in German but there are some
English translations.
<URL:http://www.meto.umd.edu/~alan/soil_moisture/>
University of Maryland Global Soil Moisture Data Bank. A collection
of data, model output, and links to soil moisture information.
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