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NOAA'S NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA
CENTER (NCDC)
National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
- main entry page
NCDC Online Climate Data Directory
NCDC Dataset Documentation & Metadata
NNDC CLIMATE DATA ONLINE
(CDO)
NCDC GIS
PORTAL
CIRES/NOAA - CLIMATE DIAGNOSTICS CENTER
The mission of CDC is to identify
the nature and causes of climate variations on time scales ranging
from a month to centuries. The goal of this work is to develop the
ability to predict important climate variations on these time
scales.
UNITED
STATES INTERACTIVE CLIMATE PAGE
- Obtain the
climatologies of temperature, precipitation and other variables
for cities throughout the United States and its possessions.
- Create maps of monthly US temperature and
precipitation products from 1895 to the present.
- Site has
neat topographic maps
of each state with the major cities plotted, plus links to each
state's Office of Climatology and Regional Climate Center
- Also has a link for easy
access to
US Climate Divisions Plotting Page and
help for using it.
CPC - CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER
Climate Prediction Center Home - w/ latest outlooks
Outlook
Maps, Graphs, & Tables
Storm Tracks
Blocking
OSCILLATION
/ TELECONNECTION / INDEX SITES
Indices: Get & Plot Index Data / Time Series
(ESRL-PSD)
«Climate
Indices: List of Monthly Time Series w/ Links«
Climate
Indices Plotting Page
Download
Climate Time Series - selected longer time series
Overviews / Explanations of Various Indices
Northern Hemisphere Teleconnection Patterns - CPC
SOI
ENSO - CPC
Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) - NCAR
El
Nino Theme Page NOAA TAO Project
Annular Modes
Annular
Modes Website - Dave Thompson, CSU
Arctic Oscillation (AO) - CPC
Antarctic Oscillation (AAO) - CPC
NAO
North Atlantic
Oscillation (NAO) - Ian Bell
North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)- CPC
PNA
Pacific
North American (PNA) - CPC
Pacific/ North
American Index (PNA) - JISAO
PDO / NPO / IPO
Pacific Decadal
Oscillation (PDO) - JISAO Univ of Washington
North Pacific Gyre
Oscillation (NPGO) -
IPO-PDO - IPCC - TAR
Interdecadal-Decadal
Pacific Oscillation Index (IPO) -Fiji-Tonga
AMO
Atlantic
Multidecadal Oscillation FAQ - AOML
Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) - Wikipedia
MJO
Madden/Julian Oscillation (MJO) - CPC
Madden-Julian Oscillation - B. Geerts and M. Wheeler
Various
MJO Things - William S. Kessler NOAA/PMEL
QBO
Quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) - Wikipedia
Quasi-Biennial
zonal wind Oscillation (QBO) - Univ of Reading
Oscillations in Models
Atmosphere-Ocean Coupled Model Phenomena (IPCC-TAR)
8.7.1
El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
8.7.2
Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)
8.7.3
Monsoons
8.7.4
Madden and Julian Oscillation (MJO)
8.7.5
The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and the Arctic Oscillation (AO)
8.7.6
Pacific-North American (PNA) and Western Pacific (WP) Patterns
INDIVIDUAL STATION DATA - UNITED STATES
Locate Weather Observation Station Record
Katie's How-To-Guide for getting station data
(from the link
above)
HCN -
The United States Historical Climatology Network - a high
quality, moderate-sized data set of daily and monthly records of
basic meteorological variables from over 1000 observing stations
across the 48 contiguous United States.
GLOBAL WEATHER/ CLIMATE DATA
KNMI CLIMATE EXPLORER
- excellent source of global data, with plotting options, etc. --
register to get more access
Global Precipitation
Climatology Project (GPCP) - from NASA-Goddard. Version
2.1 (V2.1) of the GPCP monthly product and Version 1.1 (V1.1) of the
Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) One-Degree Daily
(1DD) product. The GPCP V2.1 product begins in 1979 and the 1DD V1.1
product begins in October 1996.
Climate Monitor Online
- Climate Research Unit, University of East Anglia UK
Worldwide Weather & Climate
(from the
Resources in
Atmospheric Sciences website by B. Geerts, E. Linacre and
L. Oolman)
Global Summary of the Day
Climate
Indices: Monthly Atmospheric and Ocean Time Series
United Kingdom:
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/
=> Global info:
World Weather & Climate
Australia BOM - climate:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/
Atlas of Extratropical Storm Tracks
- NASA Goddard - This on-line atlas provides fundamental information
about extratropical storm systems, including maps of storm frequency
and intensity as well as plots of individual storms paths.
TOOLS & USEFUL WEBSITES
NCDC Contour/Vector Graphing Options
NOAA Air Resources Laboratory (ARL)
Backward Trajectory Site / Direct to
READY website for
running HYSPLIT model
NOAA/ESRL
Radiosonde Database Access
Resources in Atmospheric Sciences by B. Geerts, E. Linacre and
L. Oolman
GrADS:
GRID ANALYSIS AND DISPLAY SYSTEM
The Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) is an
interactive desktop tool that is currently in use worldwide for the
analysis and display of earth science data. GrADS is implemented on
all commonly available UNIX workstations,
Apple Macintosh, and DOS or Linux based PCs, and is freely
distributed over the Internet via anonymous ftp. GrADS provides an
integrated environment for access, manipulation, and display of
earth science data.
NCEP/NCAR REANALYSIS LINKS
NOAA ESRL-PSD
Interactive Plotting & Analysis Pages
http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/PublicData/getpage.pl
Katie's Lat-Lon Guidelines for Plotting Maps
Using the Reanalysis Sites
[pdf]
ENTRY PAGE FOR
CORRELATIONS & COMPOSITES:
NOAA ESRL-PSD -Earth System Research
Laboratory Physical Sciences Division
TO GET COMPOSITES AT THIS SITE:
TO
DO CORRELATIONS AT THIS SITE (you can also import your own time series and get correlation
maps via this page!)
Christopher Godfrey's NCEP Reanalysis Plotter
Quick & easy plotting for daily data (1950-2008) -- can plot two variables &
make a loop too
NORTH
AMERICAN REGIONAL REANALYSIS WEBSITE (NARR)
Mesinger, F. et
al. (2006)
North
American Regional Reanalysis Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Vol. 87, No.
3, pp. 343–360. [pdf]
NOTE: Some NOAA server changes may have been made and not
all information may be available at all links.
TWENTIETH CENTURY REANALYSIS
The
The 20th Century Reanalysis contains objectively-analyzed
4-dimensional weather maps and their uncertainty for most of the
1900's.
CDC
NCEP/NCAR REANALYSIS
PROJECT SITE
CDC (Climate Diagnostics Center) SITE
(EASIEST TO USE! -- Follow Directions BELOW)
NCEP/NCAR
REANALYSIS -- Descriptions of What's Online (By starting here you can
scroll down through many sections to read descriptions of the variables in the
categories listed under Daily Data below)
TO SEE IT ALL!
Go here to see the full listing of all the different data
sets and scroll through a list of all the different variables.
From this
page you can narrow your search by data set or by variable.
Search
all of the NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis available at CDC
DAILY
(or 4x daily) GRIDDED DATA -- start with the "Search
for Climate Data at CDC" link. Then to get plots of gridded individual daily
data do the following:
- At the right side of the page in the scrolling menu, select the variable
you want to plot
- Be sure "Group results by variable" (the default) is selected,
then
- CLICK the SEARCH button and you will be taken to a new page listing
options for your selected variable.
- To make a plot for a single point in time, click on Make Plot or Subset
in the: "4 times daily individual observations" and you
will be taken to a new page containing the options to make your plot.
You will be able to plot data for one of these four times on any individual
day in the database: 0z, 6z, 12z, 18z
- Some variables have additional options, such as that of plotting a daily
average, or plotting at either one of the NCEP Reanalysis Pressure
Levels, the NCEP Reanalysis Surface Level, etc. (e.g., see the
Air Temperature variable)
- NOTE: To be sure you are plotting just a single point in time and not
averaging model observations from different times, be sure your time
range selections specify the SAME DATE & TIME (e.g. 1950 Jan 01 0z
and 1950 Jan 01 0z) as the "begin" and "end"
times.
Visualize
NCEP Data / CLIMATIC GRIDDED DATA (go here to get plots of monthly data, anomalies,
longterm means, etc.):
CLIMATE DATA SETS FROM CDIAC (Carbon Dioxide Information
Analysis Center)
Global Temperature, Precipitation, Sea Level
Pressure, and Station Pressure Data
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Temperature,
Trends
- The Global Historical Climatology
Network: Long-Term Monthly Temperature, Precipitation, Sea
Level Pressure, and Station Pressure Data (1992),
NDP-041
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Abstract
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Historical Isotopic Temperature Record
from the Vostok Ice Core
(2000), Trends
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Global, hemispheric, and zonal
temperature deviations derived from radiosonde records
(1999), Trends
- Annual and Seasonal Global
Temperature Deviations in the Troposphere and Low
Stratosphere, 1958-1998 (1999),
NDP-008
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Abstract
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Global and hemispheric temperature
anomalies-land and marine instrumental records
(1999), Trends
- Global and Hemispheric Annual
Temperature Variations Between 1861 and 1991 (revised 1994),
NDP-022
-
Abstract
- An Updated Global Grid Point
Surface Air Temperature Anomaly Data Set: 1851-1990 (revised
1991),
NDP-020
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Abstract
- Global Paleoclimatic Data for 6000
Yr B.P. (1985),
NDP-011
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Abstract
- A Computer-Based Atlas of Global
Instrumental Climate Data (1994),
DB1003
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Abstract
- A Comprehensive Precipitation Data
Set for Global Land Areas (1991),
TR051
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Abstract
United States Temperature,
Precipitation, and Snow Data
Climate Data - Former U.S.S.R.
Climate Data - People's Republic of
China
Cloud and Sunshine Data
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Clouds,
Trends
- Climatological Data for Clouds Over
the Globe from Surface Observations (1988),
NDP-026
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Abstract
- Climatological Data For Clouds Over
the Globe From Surface Observations, 1982-1991: The Total
Cloud Edition (1994),
NDP-026A
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Abstract
-
Edited Synoptic Cloud Reports from
Ships and Land Stations Over the Globe, 1982-1991
(1995),
NDP-026B
- Extended Edited Synoptic Cloud
Reports from Ships and Land Stations Over the Globe,
1952-1996 (1999),
NDP-026C
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Abstract
- Historical Sunshine and Cloud Data
in the United States (revised 1991),
NDP-021
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Abstract
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Trends in Total Cloud Amount Over China
(1999), Trends
Other Climatic Data
- Antarctic Surface Temperature and
Pressure Data (1989),
NDP-032
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Abstract
- Monthly Mean Pressure
Reconstructions for Europe (1780-1980) and North America
(1858-1980) (1987),
NDP-025
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Abstract
- Tree Ring Chronology Indexes and
Reconstructions of Precipitation in Central Iowa, USA
(1984),
NDP-002
-
Abstract
- An Annotated Inventory of Climatic
Indices and Data Sets (1986), TR035 -
Abstract
- A Global Geographic Information
System Data Base of Storm Occurrences and Other Climatic
Phenomena Affecting Coastal Zones (1991),
NDP-035
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Abstract
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An Introduction to Atmospheric and Oceanographic Datasets
NCAR Technical Note NCAR/TN-404+IA
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MAPS OF GLOBAL & REGIONAL
CLIMATE
Global
Climate Animations (by J.J. Shinker, University of
Oregon, Department of Geography Climate Lab)
Climate Maps of the United States (CLIMAPS) - NCDC
Regional Climate Maps - Worldwide - Climate Prediction Center
(CPC) monthly regional analyses products
See also: CPC's
Global Climate Data & Maps for recent climate time series
Trewartha Map of World Climates
(from The Earth's Problem Climates,
2nd Edition, G. T. Trewartha, 1981)
Trewartha Maps for each continent
United States Climate Page
Koeppen Map of World Climates with Climographs
(from Man's Domain, A Thematic Atlas of
the World, 2nd Edition)
World Map of the
Köppen-Geiger climate classification updated - Based on recent
data sets from the
Climatic
Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia and the
Global Precipitation
Climatology Centre (GPCC) at the German Weather Service this is
a new digital Köppen-Geiger world map on climate classification for
the second half of the 20th century.
U.S. Koeppen Climate Classification in GIS -
Information about reproducing the Köppen
climate classification is presented here. This process was carried
out prior to creating the agroclimate classification with the
intention of seeing how well the
PRISM
data would reproduce a well-known and currently accepted climate
classification.
PRISM
climate maps - PRISM is a unique knowledge-based system that
uses point measurements of precipitation, temperature, and other
climatic factors to produce continuous, digital grid estimates of
monthly, yearly, and event-based climatic parameters
Additional Useful Maps & Links
GLOBAL HAZARDS & EXTREMES
Dartmouth Flood Observatory
Webpage
Extreme Weather & Climate Events
- NOAA NCDC
Billion
Dollar U.S. Weather Disasters 1980-2008 - NOAA NCDC
NOAA NCDC Global Hazards/ Extremes (information
about significant climate anomalies and events worldwide by year and
month)
GISS NASA Atlas of Extratropical Storm Tracks
CURRENT WEATHER
UNISYS website
http://weather.unisys.com/
NWS Office Tucson
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/tucson/
University of Michigan USA
weather page
http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/states/states.html
University of Oregon Current
Weather and Climate page
http://geography.uoregon.edu/weather/index.html
NWS Weather Charts on the NET
(includes link to global DIFAX charts; see International Charts
link)
http://weather.noaa.gov/fax/graph.shtml
USA Today Weather Satellite
Image website (has images for each continent)
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wsatimag.htm
OSU Weather (Ohio State Weather Site)
ECMWF Current Forecasts (by continent)
DAILY U.S. WEATHER MAPS:
NOAA's Daily Weather Map - Weekly Series
[Online access to daily maps for
Sep 1, 2002 - present]
NOAA Central Library U.S. Daily Weather Maps Project
[Online access to scanned historical daily weather maps from 1871
thru December 2002 -- need a browser plug-in to view- see info on
this site]
WEATHER / CLIMATE TUTORIALS
MetEd
Library of Distance Learning -- from UCAR-COMET
(requires registration)
THE WEATHER PREDICTION.COM -The
grand site of weather analysis and forecasting education
WW 2010
Online Meteorology Guides (Univ of Illinois)
Virtual Skies Aviation Weather Tutorial (NASA)
ENSO Tutorial (CPC-NCEP, NOAA)
El
Nino Theme Page
.NOAA TAO Project
Northern Hemisphere Teleconnections (CPC-NCEP, NOAA)
Intro
to Atmospheric & Oceanographic Datasets (NCAR)
Bad
Meteorology - by Alistair B.
Fraser - corrects some common misconceptions in meteorology
Basics of Understanding and Using Soundings UBC
Numerical Weather Prediction UBC
Hurricanes, Typhoons, Cyclones Backgrounder - NCAR
Wildfires, Weather & Climate Backgrounder - NCAR
STATISTICS CONCEPTS
Online Statistics Education: An
Interactive Multimedia Course of Study:
http://onlinestatbook.com/
Rice Virtual Lab in
Statistics - lots of interactive learning tools
The CUWU
Statistics Programs - applets on Analyzing Data, Box
Models, Guessing Correlations, Putting Points on a Scatterplot, etc.
"Statiscope" Data Analysis
Regression Applet
Histogram Applet
Confidence Interval Applet
GLOSSARIES & TERMS
GLOSSARY OF METEOROLOGY (from
the American Meteorological Society)
Climate Prediction Center's Climate Glossary
Persistent Patterns that Shape Weather and Climate Variability—A
Glossary (NCAR)
Thunderstorm Glossary (NCAR)
GLOBAL
CHANGE MASTER DIRECTORY - A comprehensive directory about Earth science
and global change data. (The site is maintained by NASA in support of the U.S.
Global Change Research Program.)
EPA's
Global Warming Site: Glossary of Climate Change Terms
Global
Change Acronyms & Abbreviations (U.S. Global Change
Research Information Office (GCRIO)
Global
Change Acronyms (Carbon Dioxide Information Center)
Names
of Winds - Golden Gate Weather Services
BLOGS
RealClimate. Blog -- "Climate Science from Climate Scientists"
Madweather Blog - a
blog about Southwestern weather, weather forecasting & observing,
and other related topics
100 Best Blogs for Earth Science Scholars
INTERNATIONAL GLOBAL CHANGE SCIENCE &
PERSPECTIVES
The
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
GLOBE -
International Hands-On Science and Education -
Be a part of a global scientific project! For this site,
students all over the world gather environmental data at or near their schools and then
send it to the GLOBE network via the Internet. Then scientists use the data in their
research, and the data is used to make images for daily display on the web.
EARTHWEEK - A Diary of the Planet
Weekly global updates of natural and human-made
environmental hazards and disasters.
Global
Warming: Early Warning Signs
(Similar to Earthweek, but maps warning
signs of global warming;
sponsored by various environmental groups)
The
Global Compact and Environment -- Principles of the United
Nations regarding the environment
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
/ NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL PUBLICATIONS
Understanding
and Responding to Climate Change (2006) Highlights of National
Academies Reports [PDF}
Surface Temperature
Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years, (2006) The National
Academy of Sciences, National Research Council.
U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCY SITES ON CLIMATE
CHANGE & THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT
EPA's
Global Warming Site
EPA's Inventory
of United States. GHG Emissions
NASA's Visible Earth Site - a
catalog of NASA images and animations of our home planet.
USGS's Earthshots: Satellite
Images of Environmental Change
NOAA's "Operational Significant Event Imagery"
(OSEI)-- view your planetary home with new eyes; see also the Image
of the Day
Nighttime
Lights of the World - from NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
A
PALEO PERSPECTIVE ON GLOBAL WARMING
from NOAA's National Climatic Data
Center Paleoclimatology Program
GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH AT THE U OF A:
Global Change research is carried out
in numerous units throughout the University of Arizona. The best place to identify the full
range of global change researchers on campus is the IE site:
Institute
of the Environment (IE)
IE is the UA's institute for "Providing
an Interdisciplinary Framework for Addressing Global Environmental
Questions."
Also learn about the
CLIMAS
project which integrates science, policy, and community issues related to
climate variability in the Southwest.
The Laboratory of Tree-Ring
Research In 1937, the scientific study of tree-rings
in America was formalized by the creation of the Laboratory of
Tree-Ring Research (LTRR) here at the University of Arizona in
Tucson. The LTRR has become a world leader in the use of
tree rings to study global change.
College of Science
Global Change Lecture Series
took place in Fall 2006.
GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE NEWS
Link to
SCIENCE
DAILY.COM: Earth & Climate Site
Google News
Yahoo News
The New York Times
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