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Academic Institutions

• Alaska Climate Center
• Brown Univ. Earth Systems History
• Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies
• Climate research institutions home pages. Including a pointer to a list of data archives.
• Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum
• Global Climate Change Information Programme (GCCIP) at Manchester Metropolitan University.
• International Research Inst. for Climate Prediction. NOAA, Lamont-Doherty, Scripps Inst.
• McGill Univ. Centre for Climate & Global Change Research
• Ohio St. Univ.
• Ohio St. Univ., Dept. of Geography.
• Penn State Earth System Science Center (ESSC)
• Texas A&M Ocean/Atmosphere Aerosols Group
• Univ. of Birmingham (UK) Meteorology & Climatology pages
• Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Earth System Science
• Univ. of Chicago.
• Univ. of Mass. Climate System Research Center.
• Univ. of Washington Climate Processes over the Oceans page
• Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Dept. of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences
• Utah Climate Center

Commercial Sites

• Remote Sensing Systems. A provider of satellite data products.
• Yankee Environmental Systems, Inc.

Data Archives

• CEOS IDN Datasets List. Holy cow, Batman! This is big. Takes forever to load and render, but worth it.
• Canadian Meteorological Centre, Climate & Water Information.
• Climate Normals Database for Ecodistricts in Canada.
• Climate Trend. Interactive temperature series display.
• Columbia Ingrid System and data catalog. This is absolutely awesome.
• Digital Geospatial Data Source Directory
• GEOS-1 Multiyear Assimilation (Reanalysis).
• Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) is a comprehensive source of information about Earth science, environmental, biosphere, climate, and global change data holdings available to the scientific community throughout the world.
• Global Observing Systems Information Center
• Global Ocean Surface Temperature Atlas (GOSTA) CD-ROM data.
• Ilana Stern's Sources of Met. Data.
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center.
• Langley DAAC. Mostly radiation budget, clouds, aerosols.
• NASA Goddard Data Assimilation Office.
• NASA Goddard Distributed Active Archive Center. Documentation for a large number of climatic datasets.
• NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Datasets, Images and Software
• NOAA Climate Prediction Center Products
• NOAA Data Set Catalog
• NOAA Environmental Information Service. Data products from NOAA.
• NOAA National Climatic Data Center
• Oak Ridge National Lab. Carbon Dioxide Information & Analysis Center. Data sets relating to climate and CO2. Also at ftp site, ftp://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/pub/
• Peter Lyster's Earth and Space Science Data Page. Look here for satellite data sets in particular.
• Scripps Inst. library's data services directory.
• Steve Baum's Climate Data Page
• The Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL).
• U.S. Global Change Data and Information System (GCDIS)
• World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) data sources

Experiment or Project

• ARGO. Profiling float program.Information Center.
• Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project (AMIP). Features of a large number of cliamte models.
• Australian GCOS, GOOS Participation
• Climate Predictability and Variability (CLIVAR) of the World Climate Res. Prog.
• Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES). Online documentation.
• Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget Project (GERB)
• Global Analysis, Interpretation & Modelling Task Force (GAIM) of the International Geosphere Biosphere Program (IGBP) of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU)
• Global Change & Terrestrial Ecosystems (GCTE) International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP)
• IGOS - Integrated Global Observing Strategy
• INDOEX - The Indian Ocean Experiment
• International Geosphere Biosphere Program (IGBP) of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU)
• International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project
• PAGES, Past Global Changes
• PREDICATE, Mechanisms and Predictability of Decadal Fluctuations in Atlantic-European Climate
• TRAGNET: United States Trace Gas Network
• The Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE).
• Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) Array
• West Antarctic Ice Sheet Initiative
• West Antarctic Ice Sheet Initiative.

Governments outside the US

• Australian Antarctic Division
• CSIRO Div. of Atmos. Res.
• Dutch Global Climate Change Res.Prog.
• Hadley Center for Climate Prediction & Research
• Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, UK Met. Office
• UK Climatic Research Unit at Univ. of E. Anglia, Norwich. Has good climate information.

International Organizations

• Global Change START
• Global Climate Observing System
• IPCC Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.
• IPCC Working Group I: The Science of Climate Change.
• IPCC Working Group II: Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability.
• IPCC Working Group III: Mitigation of climate change.
• Int. Assoc. for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans (IAPSO).
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
• The Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL).

Non-governmental Organizations

• CIESIN SEDAC climate model page. Let's you compare models runs for various climate scenarios.
• CIESIN gateway system conducts searches of databases from one site.
• CIESIN. This site has a large collection of documents relating to climate change.
• EcoNet Climate Resources
• Pew Center on Global Climate Change.

Publications

• Climate Dynamics.
• Climate Monitor
• Earth Interactions. Strange helper application required.
• Exchanges and other CLIVAR publications.
• Global Change: An Atmospheric Perspective. Online companion to the textbook.
• Global Change electronic edition
• Global Climate Change Digest.
• Global Warming and Climate Change
• Quaternary Research.
• Tellus, Series A: Dynamic meteorology and oceanography.
• Tellus, Series B: Chemical and physical meteorology.
• The Degrees of Change. Newsletter and electronic conference [not yet implemented] from Carnegie Mellon.
• Tiempo Global Warming and the Third World
• Biogeochemistry.
• Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. Contents, abstracts, and (Acrobat format only) articles.
• Change. Dutch Global Climate Change Res.Prog.
• Climate Change: The Challenge, John Houghton
• Climate Research
• Climatic Change.
• Journal of Applied Meteorology. Contents, abstracts, and (by subscription, only) papers.
• Journal of Climate. Contents, abstracts, and (by subscription, only) papers.
• Journal of Physical Oceanography. Contents, abstracts, and (by subscription, only) papers.
• Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. Contents, abstracts, and (by subscription, only) papers.
• The Holocene.
• UCAR Quarterly.
• Am. Met. Soc. publications page
• David Archer's papers. Mainly oceanic carbon cycle.
• Elsevier earth & planetary science publications.
• Satellite papers by Eric Salathé

Societies

• American Geophysical Union
• American Meteorological Society

Software

• Community Climate Model. A widely-used GCM.
• Frankfurt Biosphere Model. A carbon cycle model.
• NCSA Hierarchical Data Format.
• NetCDF format. The NetCDF format is widely used for geoscience data, including Unidata data.

Tutorials and FAQs

• A Matter of Degrees A Primer on Global Warming from Environment Canada.
• Climate FAQS, by Jan Schloerer and Robert Grumbine. Recommended for amateurs. Also lots of pointers to other sites.
• Climate Observations Substantitate Global Warming Models, from Chemical & Engineering News
• Guide to IPCC-Related Publications
• ICLEI CO2 briefing. From The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives.
• IPCC 95 Summaries
• IPCC Working Group I Report
• NOAA Climate Diagnostics Center ENSO page
• Puchalsky's sci.env selections
• Sea Level Ice and Greenhouses FAQ, by Grumbine
• UNEP Climate Change Fact Sheets
• Union of Concerned Scientists, USA. What is global warming?
• Univ. of Chicago global warming class
• Univ. of Cincinnati global warming course. Has a lot of useful links.
• William Connolley: Was an Ice Age predicted in the 70s? Examines the widely-circulated myth. (This is an anti-crank site.)

US Government Institutions

• DOE Computer Hardware, Advanced Mathematics & Model Physics
• Global Change Research Information Office
• Global Energy & Water Cycle Experiment
• Lawence Livermore National Lab, Earth & Environmental Sciences Directorate.
• Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab. Atmos. Sciences
• Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab. Prog. for Climate Model Diagnosis & Intercomparison
• NASA Climate News and Research. Not much news--actually more a promotional/vanity site for one NASA group.
• NASA Global Change Data Center
• NASA Goddard Climate & Radiation
• NASA Goddard Coupled Climate Dynamics Group
• NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
• NASA Langley Atmospheric Sciences Division.
• NCAR Climate & Global Dynamics Division
• NCAR Environmental & Societal Impacts Group. Plenty of articles and publications.
• NCAR GENESIS Earth Systems
• NOAA Climate Diagnostics Center
• NOAA Climate Monitoring & Diagnostics Laboratory, incl. Carbon Cycle Group
• NOAA Climate Prediction Center
• NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
• NOAA High Plains Regional Climate Center
• NOAA National Climatic Data Center
• NOAA Northeast Regional Climate Center
• NOAA Office of Oceanic & Atmospheric Research
• NOAA Southeast Regional Climate Center
• NOAA Southern Regional Climate Center
• NOAA Western Regional Climate Center
• UCAR Climate Analysis Section
• US Global Change Research Program.
• USGS Global Change Research Program

Web Indexes

• Climate Change Documents. A good collection of amateur-oriented Web documents.
• Grumbine's Home page. Contains lots of links to other sites.
• McGill Univ. climate information sources
• Meteorological Web Directory.
• Open Univ., Netherlands climate change pointers. Good data sources pointers.
• Polar Pointers. A huge list of polar and glacial sites.
• Steve Baum's Climate Models
• Steve Baum's Climatology and Paleoclimatology Page
• USGS Climate Index
• WINDandSEA, The Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences Internet Locator, NOAA
• William Connolley's weather and climate links. Good coverage of European sites.

Parascientific Sites

• [I] Bad Atmospheric Science. This section got so big I moved it to its own page.

Paul D. Farrar

Last updated 17 Jul 03