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Meteorology FAQ Part 1/7: Intro

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#1 / 11	Meteorology FAQ Part 1/7: Intro
Fri, 19 Jun 1992 00:00:00 GMT

Tom Be #2 / 11	Meteorology FAQ Part 1/7: Intro Archive-name: meteorology/research-data Last-modified: 1 March 2000 Recent changes: ==within last two weeks== ==within last four weeks== This article is copyright (c) 2000 by Tom Berg. It may be freely distributed for non-commercial purposes only, provided that this copyright notice and the instructions on retrieving a current copy are not removed. With special honor given to Ilana Stern who conceived of this FAQ and maintained it with the greatest of professionalism and care until the torch was passed to me. If the date in the headers of the document you're reading is more than a month old, you should retrieve a current copy. Current copies of this FAQ series can be obtained in hypertext form via WWW at <URL:http://www.mobile.gulf.net/~hcane/met/scigeo.html>. There are 7 documents in this FAQ series: Meteorology FAQ Part 1/7: Intro Meteorology FAQ Part 2/7: Sources of weather data Meteorology FAQ Part 3/7: Sources of research data <=== Meteorology FAQ Part 4/7: Sources of CD-ROMs Meteorology FAQ Part 5/7: Internet resources Meteorology FAQ Part 6/7: Print and other resources Meteorology FAQ Part 7/7: List of U.S. State Climatologists Corrections, additions, and comments should be sent to Tom Berg at this FAQ series. Note that if I know about it, it's in these documents. ------------------------------ Subject: 1) Table of contents 1) Table of contents 2) Overview 3) Multidisciplinary Data Centers 4) Climate and weather 5) Satellite data 6) Hydrology and glaciology 7) Environmental chemistry 8) Geophysical and mapping data 9) Instruments and field experiments 10) Oceanography 11) Miscellaneous data 12) Software and documentation Each (major) section has a "Subject:" line, so you can search on the subject title above to find the section quickly. ------------------------------ Subject: 2) Overview Sites listed in this section contain sites with data other than just weather information. This includes map data, miscellaneous images, atmospheric and oceanographic research data, and software for use with meteorological data. Primary data centers are listed first, followed by sites which may have some data of that type but are not necessarily official data centers. Much of the research data is not free and is not directly available over the network; only metadata, or information about the data, is available, and you must place an order for the actual data. ------------------------------ Subject: 3) Multidisciplinary Data Centers <URL:http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov> <URL:telnet://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov> (login "gcdir") The Global Change Master Directory is a multidisciplinary on-line information system containing descriptions of Earth and space science data holdings available to the science community. These include data from NASA, NOAA, NCAR, USGS, DOE (CDIAC), EPA, NSF and other U.S. and international agencies, universities, and research centers. For telnet access, login as "gcdir". <URL:http://www.ucar.edu/dss/index.html> <URL:ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu> National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Data Support Section maintains a large archive of a variety of atmospheric, oceanic, and geophysical datasets, encompassing most subdisciplines. This site contains information (metadata) on available datasets; a few small datasets are directly available. <URL:http://www.esdim.noaa.gov> National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Environmental Information Services Home Page. This "master page" links to the Web pages of the various NOAA Data Centers: National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) <URL:http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/> National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) <URL:http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/> National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) <URL:http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/> You can search the NOAA dataset catalog, which covers all the NOAA Data Centers. The individual data centers are also listed elsewhere in this document. <URL:http://eos.nasa.gov> Home page for Earth Observing System (EOS). This "master page" links to the home pages of the various Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs), which provide data from EOS: JPL Physical Oceanography DAAC <URL:http://podaac-www.jpl.nasa.gov> Marshall Space Flight Center DAAC <URL:http://wwwdaac.msfc.nasa.gov> Goddard DAAC <URL:http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/DAAC_DOCS/gdaac_home.html> Earth Resources Observation Systems DAAC <URL:http://sun1.cr.usgs.gov/landdaac/landdaac.html> National Snow and Ice Data Center DAAC <URL:http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu/NASA/GUIDE/> Langley DAAC <URL:http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov> Oak Ridge National Laboratory DAAC <URL:http://www-eosdis.ornl.gov> NOAA's Satellite Active Archive <URL:http://www.saa.noaa.gov> Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) <URL:http://www.ciesin.org> Alaska Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Facility <URL:http://eosims.asf.alaska.edu:12355/datacenters_documents/ASF_datacent...> The individual data centers are also listed elsewhere in this document. <URL:http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/earth/earth_home.html> National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) earth science archive page. A new policy from the Earth Sciences and Applications Division at NASA Headquarters directed NSSDC to distribute its holdings to various designated archives. NSSDC no longer archives any new Earth science data; this site describes the Earth science data transfer activities and provides selective data and resources available to users. <URL:http://www-mel.nrlmry.navy.mil/> Defense Modeling Simulations Office (DMSO) Master Environmental Library (MEL). This site offers keyword searching of a directory of all meteorological, oceanographic, and other environmental data at Department of Defense sites such as the Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center, Naval Research Laboratories, Air Force Global Weather Center, etc. <URL:http://www.grid.unep.ch/gridhome.html> United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Global Resource Information Database (GRID). Global and European datasets for environmental researchers, including vegetation and topography maps, maps of population and other human-related items, and various climatologies. ------------------------------ Subject: 4) Climate and weather <URL:http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov> <URL:ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/> <URL:telnet://hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov> (login "storm", password "research") National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) of NOAA. Inventories and metadata for various climate datasets are available, along with selected datasets. Monthly Climatic Data for the World for the last several years is available here in the directory <URL:ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/mcdw/>. This is a World Data Center A for meteorology. <URL:http://www.cdc.noaa.gov> The Climate Diagnostics Center (CDC), previously the Climate Research Division of the ERL Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL), conducts diagnostic studies of climate variability on time scales of months to centuries. CDC climatological data is archived in netCDF format. This site gives access to metadata (information about these datasets) which can be searched by various keywords; actual data must be ordered from CAC by email or fill-in forms. <URL:http://nic.fb4.noaa.gov> <URL:ftp://nic.fb4.noaa.gov/pub/> Climate Prediction Center. Climate products and services consisting of operational prediction of climate variations, monitoring of the climate system and development of data bases for determining current global and regional climate anomalies and trends, and analysis of their origins and linkages to the complete climate system, including ENSO advisories and indices, and monthly mean and anomaly fields. <URL:http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/DAAC_DOCS/gdaac_home.html> Goddard Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC). Data and related services for global change research and education. Data holdings cover information on the upper atmosphere, atmospheric dynamics, and global biosphere. Products include data from Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), Total Ozone Mapping Satellites (TOMS), Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS), Sea-viewing Wide Field of View Sensor (SeaWiFS), Pathfinder Advanced Very High Resolution (AVHRR) land sensor 4-Dimensional Assimilation dataset, Total Ozone Vertical Sounder (TOVS) Pathfinder data, Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere (TOGA) Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (COARE) Field Observation experiment data. <URL:http://rainbow.ldgo.columbia.edu> Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University's Climate Group's server. The "Data Library" contains various climatologies for the ocean and atmosphere, and topographic data, along with a nice interactive system for selection and display of data. <URL:http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~rbrbrn/awsproj.html> <URL:http://uwamrc.ssec.wisc.edu/amrchome.html> The Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin - Madison maintains archives of Antarctic data, including synoptic reports and satellite images. <URL:http://www.giss.nasa.gov/Data/> <URL:ftp://ftp.giss.nasa.gov> Various monthly mean data files, including surface temperature anomalies, grids of various variables used in the GCM II (General Circ. Model). Also various maps of vegetation indices, cultivation indices, wetland ecosystems. The ftp machine can not be accessed using a WWW browser -- you must ftp directly. The file "GISS.HELP" contains an index. As of Feb 96, the ftp server's data is somewhat outdated. <URL:http://isccp.giss.nasa.gov> ISCCP C2 cloud data from GISS. This data is no longer on the main server, above. <URL:http://strat-www.met.fu-berlin.de> Free University of Berlin Stratospheric Research Group. Stratospheric data (heights and temperatures). <URL:http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/longpdk/> "The Long Paddock" Climatology of Australia ... read more »
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#3 / 11	Meteorology FAQ Part 1/7: Intro
Fri, 19 Jun 1992 00:00:00 GMT

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Fri, 19 Jun 1992 00:00:00 GMT

Tom Be #5 / 11	Meteorology FAQ Part 1/7: Intro Archive-name: meteorology/state-climatologists Last-modified: 1 April 2000 Recent changes: ==within last two weeks== ==within last four weeks== This article is copyright (c) 2000 by Tom Berg. It may be freely distributed for non-commercial purposes only, provided that this copyright notice and the instructions on retrieving a current copy are not removed. With special honor given to Ilana Stern who conceived of this FAQ and maintained it with the greatest of professionalism and care until the torch was passed to me. If you would like to put this article in an archive and want to receive a new copy automatically at every update, please send me email. I DO NOT MAINTAIN A MAILING LIST SO PLEASE DON'T ASK FOR ME TO SEND YOU COPIES AT EACH UPDATE UNLESS YOU ARE ARCHIVING IT FOR PUBLIC USAGE OR FURTHER REDISTRIBUTION! If the date in the headers of the document you're reading is more than a month old, you should retrieve a current copy. Current copies of this FAQ series can be obtained in hypertext form via WWW at <URL:http://www.mobile.gulf.net/~hcane/met/scigeo.html>. There are 7 documents in this FAQ series: Meteorology FAQ Part 1/7: Intro Meteorology FAQ Part 2/7: Sources of weather data Meteorology FAQ Part 3/7: Sources of research data Meteorology FAQ Part 4/7: Sources of CD-ROMs Meteorology FAQ Part 5/7: Internet resources Meteorology FAQ Part 6/7: Print and other resources Meteorology FAQ Part 7/7: List of US State Climatologists <=== Corrections, additions, and comments should be sent to Tom Berg at this FAQ series. Note that if I know about it, it's in these documents. ------------------------------ Subject: 1) Table of contents 1) Table of contents 2) Overview 3) State Climatologists 4) Regional Climate Centers ------------------------------ Subject: 2) Overview If you are looking for historical information for a US location, your best bet would be to contact the state climatologist for the area of interest. This unofficial list was compiled from a variety of sources, including the official list of State Climatologists, which is available from John Key to abbreviations: T = Telephone O = Omnet F = Fax B = Bitnet TM = Telemail I = Internet URL = www URL ------------------------------ Subject: 3) State Climatologists Alabama Dr. Richard McNider Department of Atmospheric Sciences University of Alabama in Huntsville 977 Explorer Drive Huntsville, AL 35806 T: 205-922-5752 F: 205-922-5755 Alaska Dr. Dwight D. Pollard Alaska State Climate Center Environment and Natural Resources Institute 707 A Street Anchorage, AK 99501 T: 907-257-2741 F: 907-276-6847 Arizona Dr. Anthony J. Brazel Laboratory of Climatology Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-1508 T: 602-965-6265 <URL:http://saguaro.la.asu.edu/ooc/general/state/> Arkansas Dr. John G. Hehr Dept of Geography Ozark Hall 108A University of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR 72701 T: 501-575-3159 F: 501-575-2642 California Mr. William A. Mork CA Dept of Water Resources Division of Flood Management P.O. Box 942836 Sacramento, CA 94236-0001 T: 916-653-7237 Colorado Dr. Thomas McKee Colorado Climate Center Dept of Atmospheric Science Colorado State University Ft. Collins, CO 80523 T: 303-491-8545 (Nolan Doesken, Asst. SC) <URL:http://ulysses.atmos.colostate.edu/> Connecticut Dr. David R. Miller Dept of Natural Resources-U87 1376 Storrs Road University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06269-4087 T: 203-486-2840 Delaware Dr. Daniel J. Leathers Center for Climatic Research 210 Newark Hall Dept of Geography University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716 T: 302-831-2294 F: 302-831-6654 <URL:http://www.udel.edu/leathers/stclim.html> Florida Dr. Kevin Kloesel Dept of Meteorology Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306-3034 T: 904-644-1268 <URL:http://www.ispa.fsu.edu/climate.html> Georgia Dr. Bill Bell State Climate Office Driftmier Engineering Center University of Georgia T: 706-542-6067 F: 706-542-8806 <URL:http://www.bae.uga.edu/climate/index.html> Hawaii Mr. Manabu Tagomori State Dept of Land & Natural Resources Div. of Water & Land Dev. P.O. Box 373 Honolulu, HI 96809 T: 808-587-0230 Idaho Dr. Myron Molnau Biological and Agricultural Engineering Dept 425 Engineering/Physics Building University of Idaho Moscow, ID 83844-0904 T: 208-885-6184 F: 208-885-7908 <URL:http://www.uidaho.edu/~climate> Illinois Dr. Wayne M. Wendland Illinois State Water Survey 2204 Griffith Drive Champaign, IL 61820-7495 T: 217-333-0729 F: 217-333-6540 Indiana Mr. Ken Scheeringa Dept. of Agronomy 1150 Lilly Hall Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907-1150 T: 317-494-8105 F: 317-496-2926 Iowa Mr. Harry J. Hillaker, Jr. State Climatologist 9607 NW Beaver Drive Johnston, IA 50131 T: 515-270-6907 Kansas Ms. Mary Knapp (acting) Weather Data Library 211 Umberger Hall Kansas State University Manhattan, KS 66506-3400 T: 913-532-6270 F: 913-532-6487 Kentucky Mr. Glen Conner Kentucky Climate Center Dept. of Geography & Geology Western Kentucky University Bowling Green, KY 42101 T: 502-745-4555 <URL:http://www.wku.edu/~gg024004/ky-climate-center.html> Louisiana Mr. John M. Grymes, III LA Office of State Climatology Southern Regional Climate Center Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4105 T: 504-388-6870 F: 504-388-2912 Maine Dr. Bernard E. Dethier University of Maine PO Box 745 Blue Hill, ME 04614 T: 207-582-3224 Maryland Dr. Alan Robock State Climatologist Dept. of Meteorology University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742-2425 T: 301-405-5377 T: 301-405-7223 for climate information F: 301-314-9482 <URL:http://www.metolab3.umd.edu/~alan/sc.html> Massachusetts Dr. David Taylor State Climatologist Mass Dept of Water Resources 496 Park Street North Reading, MA 01864 T: 617-275-8860 ext 138 F: 617-271-0178 Michigan Dr. Fred V. Nurnberger MDA/Climatology Program 417 Natural Science Building Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824 T: 517-373-8383 or 355-0231 F: 517-432-1076 TM: [climatology/mda]tm11/usa Minnesota Mr. Jim Zandlo State Climatology Office University of Minnesota S-325 Borlaug Hall St. Paul, MN 55108 T: 612-296-4214 F: 612-625-2208 <URL:http://www.soils.agri.umn.edu/research/climatology/> Mississippi Dr. Charles L. Wax MS State Climatologist Drawer 5167 Mississippi State University Mississippi State, MS 39762 T: 601-325-3915 Missouri Steve Qi Hu University of Missouri-Columbia Department of Soil and Atmospheric Sciences 100 Gentry Hall Columbia, Missouri 65211 T: 573-882-7437 or 6591 Montana Dr. Jon M. Wraith Plant & Soil Science Dept. Montana State University Bozeman, MT 59717-0312 T: 406-994-5067 F: 406-994-3933 Nebraska Mr. Allen Dutcher Nebraska State Climatologist 239 Chase Hall High Plains Climate Center University of Nebraska Lincoln, NE 68583-0728 T: 402-472-5206 F: 402-472-6614 O: k.hubbard Nevada Professor John W. James Dept of Geography College of Arts & Sciences University of Nevada/Reno Reno, NV 89557-0048 T: 702-784-6995 New Hampshire Dr. Barry D. Keim Department of Geography James Hall University of New Hampshire Durham, NH 03824 P: 603-862-3136 F: 603-862-2649 <URL:http://unhinfo.unh.edu:70/0/unh/acad/libarts/geog/climate.html> New Jersey Dr. David Robinson Office of the State Climatologist Dept. of Meteorology Cook College Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ 08903 T: 908-445-4741/9588 F: 908-445-0006 <URL:http://climate.rutgers.edu/stateclim/> New Mexico No S.C. at this time; the New Mexico Climate Center is at NMSU <URL:http://weather.nmsu.edu/> New York Mr. Keith L. Eggleston 1117 Bradfield Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 T: 607-255-1749 F: 607-255-2106 <URL:http://met-www.cit.cornell.edu/nrcc_home.html> North Carolina Dr. Sethu Raman Dept. of Marine/Earth/Atmos Science Box 8208 NC State University Raleigh, NC 27695-8208 T: 919-515-1440 or 3056 F: 919-515-7802 <URL:http://cumulus.meas.ncsu.edu> North Dakota Professor John W. Enz Dept. of Soils Science North Dakota State University Fargo, ND 58105-5638 T: 701-237-8576 F: 701-237-7851 Ohio Dr. Jeffrey C. Rogers Dept. of Geography 1036 Derby Hall The Ohio State University Columbus, OH 43210-1361 T: 614-292-0148 F: 614-292-6213 Oklahoma Dr. Ken Crawford Oklahoma Climatological Survey University of Oklahoma Sarkey's Energy Center 100 East Boyd, Suite 1210 Norman, OK 73019-0628 T: 405-325-2541 F: 405-325-2550 ... read more »
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