The weather and climate resource links on this page are intended as a quick reference for classroom and research purposes.
Category |
Page Title |
Page URL |
Description |
File Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
General |
IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library |
http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/ |
Various gridded observation and reanalysis data for a specified region and time period |
Various |
General |
NOAA PSD ESRL catalog |
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/ |
Variety of gridded climate datasets and plots for specified regions |
NetCDF, PNG |
Observation Archive |
NCEI (formerly NCDC) Daily Observational Data |
https://gis.ncdc.noaa.gov/map/viewer/ |
Interactive map for selecting a variety of daily data |
TXT, PDF, CSV |
Soundings |
NOAA/ESRL Radiosonde Database |
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/raobs/ |
Archived global sounding observations available as raw data or Skew-T plots |
Various |
Soundings |
University of Wyoming Radiosonde Database |
http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html |
Interactive map for global sounding observations available as raw data or Skew-T plots |
TXT, GIF, PDF |
Reanalysis |
ECMWF Reanalyses Datasets |
https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/datasets/browse-reanalysis-datasets |
Various ERA reanalysis products available for specified time periods. free account required |
GRIB, NetCDF |
Climate Data and Forecasts |
NCEI (formerly NCDC) Climate Monitoring |
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/climate-monitoring/ |
Information about the current state of the climate including national and global overviews, interactive temporal graphs, and climate indices/teleconnections |
XML, CSV, JSON |
Climate Data and Forecasts |
NOAA Climate Prediction Center |
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/ |
Seasonal outlooks/discussion for the U.S. and global climate indices |
Text and maps |
Climate Data and Forecasts |
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) |
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/ |
Datasets and images from climate simulations and observations |
GIF, text, netCDF, PDF, binary data |
Climate Data and Forecasts |
National Snow & Ice Data Center |
http://nsidc.org/ |
Datasets and images on glaciers, ice sheets, sea ice, soil moisture, and snow |
PNG, text, netCDF, MATLAB, ESRI Shapefile, GeoTIFF, binary |
Images and Animations |
NOAA PSD ESRL Interactive Climate Analysis and Plotting tools |
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/cgi-bin/data/getpage.pl |
Generates hourly-to-annual maps and composites of reanalysis data |
PNG, netCDF, TXT, Postscript |
Images and Animations |
NOAA/ESRL Carbon Dioxide plots |
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/index.html |
Various CO2 figures including current global and Mauna Loa Observatory values |
PNG, PDF, TXT |
Images and Animations |
Godfrey NCEP Reanalysis Plotter |
http://www.atms.unca.edu/cgodfrey/reanalysis/reanalysis.shtml |
Creates single images and loops of various NCEP/NCAR reanalysis atmospheric variables (includes observed and derived quasi-geostrophic variables) |
PNG |
Images and Animations |
Space Science and Engineering Center (UW) |
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/ |
Real-time imagery and data, includes several satellite images and animations |
GIF |
Forecast & Climate Images/Animations |
Climate Reanalyzer |
https://climatereanalyzer.org/ |
Various weather & climate data |
Various |