This data archive is slowly being migrated to the Center for Science in the Earch System (CSES). A good way to find a data set on this and the CSES pages is to google "jisao keyword," where keyword could be SST, or the name of a particular data set.
The data archive consists of
Gridded data sets: document spatial and
temporal variability,
Key climate time series: North Atlantic Oscillation,
northeast Brazil rainfall, etc.,
Links to WWW data sites: a good starting
place for data sets that we don't provide,
Links to WWW sites which provide
software to analyze data.
precipitation | surface temperature | sea-level pressure | surface vector wind & stress | miscellaneous
MATLAB scripts for reading and writing data in netCDF.
MATLAB scripts for reading FITS-format files.
MATLAB distributed oceanographic data
system (DODS) code for reading files at other institutions.
MATLAB code for reading data written in
hierarchical data format (HDF).
NOAA
CDC provides both FORTRAN and IDL routines to read netCDF files.
netCDF (command line) operators (NCOs) to manipulate
netCDF and HDF files
ASCII dumps of netCDF files (how to read them).
GrADS command lines for reading a netCDF file.
GrADS users:The older files were written with time specified as
yyyymmddhhmmss (year, month, ...), and GrADS does not recognize this
time convention. If you run into a file like this, please let me know, and I will update the time specification in the file.
If you need the data in ASCII format, let me know, and time permitting, I will see what I can do.
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Monthly-means / pentad-means / daily- and hourly means / other
Indian Monsoon data: vegetation and precipitation departures served by the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)
Ocean portal: links to data sites, complete with reviews and maybe reader voting! Sponsored by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commision of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
NOAA National Climatic Data Center
Selected fields from the Japan Meteorological Agency
UNESCO hydrological data for Latin America and the Caribbean
"WaterWeb" search engine for hydrological data. Let me know if this is useful!
The British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC) provides global, gridded, historical data sets of sea surface temperatures, sea-level pressure, marine air temperature (nighttime) for academic use.
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) provides several global, gridded data sets: surface temperature, precipitation, clouds, aerosols, and other fields.
The IRI/LDEO (International Research Institute for Climate Prediction / Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory) data library contains a broad selection of climate data sets.
NASA Climatology Interdisciplinary Data Collection snow depth, soil type, vegetation indices, surface budgets, ..., a wide variety of data sets.
Tiempo WWW page: source of several series in the present page and references to gridded data sets.
Pacific Island Rainfall provided by the Oklahoma Climatological Survey.
University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit: historical, gridded, global precipitation, SLP, surface temperature, minimum-, maximum-temperature, vapor pressure, and many other fields.
Western Region Climate Center: digital values of climatological mean precipitation and surface temperature for the National Weather Service cooperative network stations in the western United States.
NCEP Climate Prediction Center:
·El Nino / Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and general atmospheric circulation indices.
·reanalysis, precipitation, OLR fields
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory provides high spatial resolution sea surface temperatures and other, more oceanographic, fields.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR): a large variety of climate data sets:
·free data sets available by anonymous ftp
·precipitation
data sets (not necessarily free)
·oceanographic data, some of it gridded
·"An informed guide
to climate data sets."
NOAA Climate Diagnostics Center: the NMC Reanalysis data and the Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (COADS) in netCDF format. Also, water vapor temperature is available here.
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center: historical data sets.
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Microwave Sounding Unit temperature and ocean rainfall
FSU Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies: near real-time monthly-mean pseudostress analyses for the tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans.
Global River Discharge
Database Project (RivDIS)
Global Runoff Data Centre
(GRDC) river discharge data. Try the RivDIS site first, the GRDC
folks treat data like state secrets and they are very tied to IBM technology.
United Kingdom Meteorological Office climate data sets.
Pentad-means:
Selected NASA model and satellite data from SIESIP
Daily- or hourly means:
Pacific Island Rainfall provided by the Oklahoma Climatological Survey.
PMEL TAO Project hourly and daily data from moorings in the equatorial Pacific Ocean.
National Climatic Data Center: daily, hourly, and 15-minute averages. mostly U.S., but some global.
National Center for Atmospheric Researh: the smarter way to find data at this site might be to use a search engine with the keywards "dss.ucar.edu keyword(s)" where the keyword(s) could be daily/hourly and the variable name.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory provides high spatial resolution sea surface temperatures and other, more oceanographic, fields.
Western Region Climate Center: digital values of climatological mean precipitation and surface temperature for the National Weather Service cooperative network stations in the western United States.
Other sites
Please send me URLs for sites with useful free software for analyzing data.
