Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 January 2019
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Alaska Satellite Facility www.asf.alaska.edu/asf-tutorials/sar-faq/
AMIP – Atmospheric Model Inter-comparison Project https://pcmdi.llnl.gov/mips/amip/home/overview.html
ARM – Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program – Climate Research Facility www.archive.arm.gov/
ASOS – Automated Surface Observation System description www.weather.gov/media/lmk/pdf/educational_pages/ASOSandClimateObservations__What_Is_ASOS.pdf
ASOS – Automated Surface Observation System User’s guide (1998) – pdf can be downloaded from www.nws.noaa.gov/asos/pdfs/aum-toc.pdf
Blue Hill Observatory – http://bluehill.org/observatory/
BoM – Australian Bureau of Meteorology www.bom.gov.au/climate/
Buoy Data
Moored Buoys Data
Drifting Buoy Data
Moored Buoys Data
Drifting Buoy Data
www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dac/index.php
CDB – Climate Diagnostics Bulletin, Published by the CPC Monthly since 1983 and available electronically from 1999 at www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/CDB
CERA20C – ECMWF 20th Century Reanalysis version C http://apps.ecmwf.int/datasets/data/cera20c-enda/levtype=sfc/type=an/
Copernicus Climate Change Service https://climate.copernicus.eu/
Climate Data Guide Comparison of Reanalysis Products (NCAR/UCAR)
https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data/atmospheric-reanalysis-overview-comparison-tables
Climate Data Records from Environmental Satellites – Interim Report www.nap.edu/catalog/10944/climate-data-records-from-environmental-satellites-interim-report
Climate Forecast and Monitoring www.climate.gov/
Climate Prediction Center (CPC/NOAA) www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/
Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, www.cru.uea.ac.uk/
CRU Climatic Research Unit data – The Climate Data Guide: CRU TS3.21 Gridded precipitation and other meteorological variables since 1901. Retrieved from https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data/cru-ts321-gridded-precipitation-and-other-meteorological-variables-1901.
Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) www.crrel.usace.army.mil
Compendium of Meteorology https://archive.org/details/compendiumofmete00amer
COOP – Cooperative Observer Network Data for the United States
Digital Soils Data Base (IGBP-DIS) www.daac.ornl.gov/
ENSO and Seasonal Climate Forecasts
Climate Prediction Center/NCEP/NOAA www.cpc.noaa.gov/
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts
International Research Center for climate and society (IRI) https://iri.columbia.edu/our-expertise/climate/forecasts/seasonal-climate-forecasts/
ENSO Monitoring websites (NOAA)
www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/index.shtml
ENSO Blog (NOAA)
www.climate.gov/news-features/department/enso-blog
EOF and SVD – A Manual for EOF and SVD Analyses of Climatic Data (H.Bjornsson and S.A. Venega) C2GCR Report 97–1, Feb 1997 www.jsg.utexas.edu/fu/siles/EOFSVD.pdf
EPA 2014, Environmental Protection Agency Ozone website. http://cfpub.epa.gov/airnow/index.cfm?action=gooduphigh.index
ERA20c – ECMWF 20th Century Reanalysis Data http://apps.ecmwf.int/datasets/data/era20c-ofa/
ESRL/PSD Earth System Research Laboratory/Physical Science Division/NOAA. Climate and Weather Data www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/
European Space Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) Land Cover project www.esa-landcover-cci.org/
European Space Agency (ESA) Earth Observation Data https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/home
GADR – Global Argo Data Repository
GHCN – Global Historical Climate Network NCEI/NOAA www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/land-based-station-data/land-based-datasets/global-historical-climatology-network-ghcn
Global Land Surface Facility (GLCF) http://glcf.umd.edu/data/landcover/description.shtml Data are available at 1o, 8 km and 1 km resolution. Land surface is characterized into 13 classes.
Global Multi-resolution Terrain Elevation Data (GMTED2010) http://eros.usgs.gov/elevation-products Vertical resolution of roughly 25–40m depending on horizontal resolution either on ½, ¼ to 1/8 degree Data poleward of 60oN may be incomplete. https://lta.cr.usgs.gov/GMTED2010. The U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) provides a National Elevation Data set for the United States at horizontal resolutions 10 m to 30 m. The USGS also provides global DEM data (ref GMTED2010) at comparable horizontal resolutions and vertical resolutions of 25 m to 30 m. Data are incomplete north of 60o N.
Global Reservoir and Lake Monitor
https://ipad.fas.usda.gov/cropexplorer/global_reservoir/
Glossary of Meteorology, American Meteorological Society
GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate experiment. www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/Grace/
Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) www.glerl.noaa.gov/data
Harvard School of Design for general information about using digital elevation models. www.gsd.harvard.edu/gis/manual/dem/
Hurrell, James & National Center for Atmospheric Research Staff (Eds). Last modified 28 Aug 2013. The Climate Data Guide: Hurrell North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) Index (station-based). Retrieved from https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data/hurrell-north-atlantic-oscillation-nao-index-station-based.
IMD – India Meteorological Department – www.imd.gov.in/pages/monsoon_main.php
Integrated Climate Data Center (ICDC) – Land Type Data are distributed by the Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC), located at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center http://lpdaac.usgs.gov and also distributed in netCDF format by the Integrated Climate Data Center (ICDC, http://icdc.zmaw.de) University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
International Geosphere Biosphere Programme (IGBP) www.igbp.net/
International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN) www.ipf.tuwein.ac.at/insitu
International Surface Irradiance Study (ISIS) datasets www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/grad/isis/index.html
International Surface Pressure Databank (ISPD) http://reanalyses.org/observations/international-surface-pressure-databank
IPCC History www.ipcc.ch/organization/organization_history.shtml
IPCC Third Assessment Report (TAR) www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg1/index.php?idp=38
IPWG – International Precipitation Working Group http://ipwg.isac.cnr.it/data/datasets3.html
IRI/LDEO Data Library, http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/
IRI Maproom – http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/maproom/
JRA-55C reanalysis https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data/jra-55c-reanalysis-using-conventional-observations
JRA-55AMIP http://dias-dmg.tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/dmm/doc/JRA55_AMIP-DIAS-en.html
Long-term Data Record (NDVI and other products) (https://ltdr.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/ltdr/ltdrPage.cgi)
MERRA-2 Reanalysis
https://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/uui/datasets?keywords=%22MERRA-2%22
MJO Monitoring www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/MJO/mjoupdate.pdf
NASA – Earth Data Centers https://earthdata.nasa.gov/
NASA – Land cover types http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov
NASA Global Change Master Directory http://gcmd.nasa.gov
NASA – USGS Land Products DAAC https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/
National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) Paleoclimatology web site www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/abrupt/data4.html
The National Map – https://nationalmap.gov/landcover.html
National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) drought indices www.ncdc.gov/oa/climate/research/prelim/drought/palmer.html
NCDC maps of seasonal climate change www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/trends.html#top
National Drought Mitigation Center, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. http://drought.unl.edu/Planning/Monitoring/ComparisonofIndicesIntro/PDSI.aspx
National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ and www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/topo/globe.html
National Ice Center – www.natice.noaa.gov Ref for the Interactive Multisensor Snow and Ice Mapping System (IMS)
Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov
National Snow and Ice Data Center – NSIDC, 2011: Global lake and rice ice phenology. Internal development version accessed by NSIDC staff, December 2011. http://nsidc.org/data/lake_river_ice
NLCD, National Land Cover Database, 2006: Produced by the U.S. Geological Survey in conjunction with the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium (MRLC). Available for no charge at www.mrlc.gov
NOAA Central Library Photos www.photolib.noaa.gov
NOAA Central Library Weather Maps www.lib.noaa.gov/collections/imgdocmaps/daily_weather_maps.html
NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/index.html)
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data and more information at http://gcmd.nasa.gov/records/GCMD_EOSWEBSTER_NOAANASA_Path_NDVI.html or http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/NASA/GES-DAAC/PAL/.vegetation/.pal_ndvi.html or https://lta.cr.usgs.gov/NDVI
North American Soil Moisture Database (NASMD) http://soilmoisture.tamu.edu/
NSIDC – National Snow and Ice Data Center http://nsidc.org/
NSIDC – Nomenclature http://nsidc.org/cryosphere/seaice/data/terminology.html
PMEL – Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory www.pmel.noaa.gov/
PRISM – Parameter-elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model http://prism.oregonstate.edu
Radiosondes – NCAR historical summary www.eol.ucar.edu/homes/junhong/Ency-radiosonde.pdf
Radiosonde Atmospheric Temperature Products for Assessing Climate – NCDC www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/ratpac/
Rutgers Global Snow laboratory http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/
SCAN (Soil Climate Analysis Network) www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/scan
Snow Measurement Guidelines www.nws.noaa.gov/os/coop/reference/Snow_Measurement_Guidelines.pdf
Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data
Blended Satellite and in situ data www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.noaa.oisst.v2.html
Blended Satellite and in situ data www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.noaa.oisst.v2.html
or
In situ SST Data
https://data.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/iso?id=gov.noaa.ncdc:C00884
or
Soil Moisture Operational Products System (SMOPS) www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/land/smops/
Standard Rain Gage – www.weather.gov/iwx/coop_8inch
STAR – NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research
Sunshine hours tables http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/Dur_OneYear.php
Surface-based cloud observations https://atmos.washington.edu/CloudMap/WebO/index.html
Tokyo Climate Center ds.data.jma.go.jp/tcc/tcc/
United Kingdom Meteorological Office (UKMO) Unified Model –
www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/modelling-systems/unified-model
U.S. Climate Reference Network
U.S Coast Guard Navigation Center
U.S. Drought Monitor
http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/
The U.S. Drought Monitor Facts Sheet, NOAA, 2012 www.nws.noaa.gov/om/csd/graphics/content/outreach/brochures/FactSheet_Drought.pdf
USGS National Elevation Dataset 3–10m resolutions available at no cost on http://nationalmap.gov/viewer.html. This data set also includes Land Cover.
USGS Fact Sheet Colorado River, 2004: 3062 Version 2 http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2004/3062
U.S. Department of Agriculture – National Resources Conservation Service www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/site/national/home/
Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin www.usda.gov/oce/weather/
World Radiation Monitoring Center www.bsrn.awi.de/
WMO (2003) www.wmo.int/pages/prog/wcp/documents/Guidefulltext.pdf
WMO Guide to Climatological Practices (2011) Can be downloaded from www.wmo.int/pages/prog/wcp/ccl/guide/guide_climat_practices.php
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