National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
The world's largest active archive of weather data. NCDC produces numerous climate
publications and responds to data requests from all over the world.
SERCC is one of six regional climate centers in the United States directed
by the National Climatic Data Center
and the National Environmental
Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Established by NCDC to meet local and regional needs for climate data,
research-based information, and expertise.
State Climatologists are individuals who have been identified by a state
entity as the state's climatologist and who are also recognized by the Director of the
National Climatic Data Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as
the state climatologist of a particular state.
Climate Prediction Center
Assess and forecast the impacts of short-term climate variability,
emphasizing enhanced risks of weather-related extreme events, for use in mitigating losses
and maximizing economic gains.
Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration
NOAA's Mission is to describe and predict changes in the Earth's
environment, and conserve and wisely manage the Nation's coastal and marine resources.
National Snow and Ice Data
archives and distributes digital and analog snow and ice data. It also
maintains information about snow cover, avalanches, glaciers, ice sheets,
freshwater ice, sea ice, ground ice, permafrost, atmospheric ice,
paleoglaciology, and ice cores.
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University data
library contains a wide variety of oceanographic and atmospheric data.
NASA's Langley Distributed Data Archive
Processes, archives, and distributes Earth Science data.
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration NOWCAST site
A web mapping
portal to real-time coastal observations and NOAA forecasts.
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL)
Conducts scientific investigations in physical oceanography, marine meteorology,
geochemistry, and related subjects.
NOAA/PMEL Live Data Access
Provides live access to all PMEL climate data.
Joint Institute for the
Study of Atmosphere and Oceans (JISAO)
An archive for various atmospheric and oceanographic gridded and time series data
National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
The National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) is the national repository for
geophysical data, providing a wide range of science data services and information.
National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC)
Serves to "acquire, process, preserve, and disseminate oceanographic
data." Its primary mission is to ensure that global oceanographic data
collected at great cost is maintained in a permanent archive that is easily accessible to
the world science community and to other users.
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
Established in 1989 as a non-profit, non-governmental organization to provide
information to help scientists, decision-makers, and the public better understand their
changing world. CIESIN specializes in global and regional network development, science
data management, decision support, and training, education and technical consultation
NASA Planetary Data
Archives and distributes digital data from past and present NASA planetary
missions, astronomical observations, and laboratory measurements. The PDS is sponsored by
NASA's Office of Space Science to ensure the long-term usability of data, to stimulate
research, to facilitate data access, and to support correlative analysis.
NOAA Climate Diagnostics Center
The Satellite Climate Research Group uses data from various environmental
satellites in studies of seasonal to interannual climate variability.
The European Space Agency (ESA/ESRIN)
ESA's Ionia (Greek school of philosophy) server with information about the four
basic elements: fire, water, air, and earth.
Center for Earth and Planetary Studies and its Regional Planetary Image Facility
Scientific research unit within the Collections and Research Department of
the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. CEPS performs original
research and outreach activities on topics covering planetary science, terrestrial
geophysics, and the remote sensing of environmental change.
Atlas of the Southern Ocean
Alfred Wegener Institute's information about the hydrographic structure of
the Southern Ocean.
TOGA- The Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) Project
The TAO Array, consisting of nearly 70 moored buoys spanning the
equatorial Pacific, measures oceanographic and surface meteorological variables critical
for improved detection, understanding and prediction of seasonal-to-interannual climate
variations originating in the tropics, most notably those related to the El Nio/Southern
Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)
Datasets, images, and software.