-Climate and weather
(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 .
This is a World Data Center A for meteorology.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
ISCCP C2 cloud data from GISS. This data is no longer on the main
server, above.
"The Long Paddock" Climatology of Australia with focus on Queensland.
Maps of monthly rainfall, SOI, SST. Information on drought and the
southern oscillation.
Climatology of the TOGA-COARE and adjacent regions.
Links to many paleoclimate resources.
Western Regional Climate Center
Northeast Regional Climate Center
Southeast Regional Climate Center
Southern Regional Climate Center
High Plains Regional Climate Center
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