Rainfall and Temperature page.

This page presents climatologies for the globe, selected regions, Washington State, and the Seattle metropolitan area as a resource to students and researchers. Information presented ranges from digital values and maps for selected regions to animations to interactive java plotting and data access routines. Analyses of the recent climate are available here.

digital values for numerous sites in the western United States
time series plots for U.S. sites
digital rainfall and temperature values for stations around the world (WMSSC)
digital values of many variables for numerous sites around the world
temperature, rainfall, drought maps for the contiguous U.S.
detailed annual mean rainfall maps for the contiguous U.S.
detailed Oregon precipitation maps
rainfall maps: global | Africa | South America
animations for the globe and selected regions (mpeg)
maps of sea level pressure, temperature, and geopotential height for individual days
maps of surface temperature, pressure, winds, cloudiness over the oceans
more maps of climate over and in the oceans (uses Java)



Annual mean and seasonal surface winds
Annual mean: image | PostScript file
January and July surface wind: image | PostScript file
Digital values for this climatology are available as netCDF files: zonal (east-west component) and meridional (north-south component. Averages for individual calendar months, the annual mean, and the standard meteorological seasons are available on these files.



Landform data: Maps of topography and water bodies
individual U.S. states
subregions and the contiguous U.S.

Climate zones for the world's land regions (sans Antarctica).




October 2000
Todd Mitchell (mitchell@atmos.washington.edu)
JISAO data