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Climate Diagnostic Center (CDC)  (datasets for classes and others)

http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/data/composites/printpage.pl

 

http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/data/getpage.pl

 

NOAA Earth System research Laboratory (monthly time series of all climate indices)

http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/climateindices/

 

OLR data and anomalies

http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/map/clim/olr.shtml

 

Tropical hazards discussion:

http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/ghazards/ghaz.shtml

 

NASA giovanni datasets for climate analysis

http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni

 

Global Monsoons:

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/Global_Monsoons/Global-Monsoon.shtml

New CPC products for Monsoons:

1. Spatial patterns of land-only precipitation, which are updated daily, including new maps with specifically-fixed starting dates for all regional monsoons:

http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/Global_Monsoons/African_Monsoons/precip_monitoring.shtml

http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/Global_Monsoons/American_Monsoons/NAMS_precip_monitoring.shtml

http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/Global_Monsoons/American_Monsoons/SAMS_precip_monitoring.shtml

http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/Global_Monsoons/Asian_Monsoons/precip_monitoring.shtml

2. Time series of land-only precipitation, which are updated daily, including new maps with specifically-fixed starting dates for all regional monsoons:

http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/Global_Monsoons/African_Monsoons/30d-precip_click_map.php

http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/Global_Monsoons/American_Monsoons/30d-precip_click_map.php

http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/Global_Monsoons/Asian_Monsoons/30d-precip_click_map.php

For the Asian-Australian monsoon domain, information has been added for 10 new regions: Taiwan, Hainan Island, southern Japan, central Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand (Malay Peninsula), Malaysia (Sandakan), eastern Indonesia (Kokas), central Indonesia (Celebes), and western Indonesia (Java).

3. Precipitation patterns for the onset, mature, and demise phases of the South American monsoon:

http://origin.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/Global_Monsoons/American_Monsoons/SAMS-Phases/

 

El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO):

http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/MJO/enso.shtml

Comparisons El Nino/La Nina

http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/enso/compare/

 

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2009/20090709_elnino.html

 

Global Satellite images:

http://www.master.iag.usp.br/index.php?pi=N

 

Hawaii satellite images

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/west/hi.html

 

More on imagery and other info for the tropics

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/

 

NOAA-NESDIS  satellites: energy budget (short wave and long wave radiation) and several other atmospheric products

http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/SatProducts.html

 

 

Tropical cyclones (very cool for satellite images on tropical storms and others)

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic2/

Global Observing Systems  Information Center (GOSIC)

http://gosic.org/default.htm

 

National Weather Service Data sets to import in GIS (USA)

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/gis/kml/

 

Datasets for West USA:

Precipitation, temperature from stations (states and counties):

http://www.cefa.dri.edu/Westmap/

 

Several products for the USA:

http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/PROJECTS.html

 

GLOBAL TEMPERATURES (NCDC/NOAA)

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/

 

GLOBAL WARMING: OPINION:

 

Three short interviews to abc news by Richard Somerville (Scripps/UCSD) about global warming

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/video/warming-planet-9847553

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/video/global-warming-fix-9847616

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/video/tipping-point-climate-change-9847648

 

More on the 2011 floods in Brazil and Australia and  commentary by Richard Somerville


http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/wild-weather-evidence-climate-change-winter-storm-global-warming-12612353

The print link is:

http://abcnews.go.com/International/extreme-flooding-world-caused-climate-change-scientists/story?id=12610066

Some good commentary is at:

http://climateprogress.org/2011/01/14/abc-news-australia-floods-extreme-weather-global-warming-climate-change/

 

 


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