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Nimbus 7 Coastal Zone Color Scanner Pigment Concentration
Ocean surface color is used to estimate surface pigment concentration (chlorophyll). Based on the Nimbus 7 satellite data for 1978-1986, taken from "Monthly Mean Distributions...- dataset HDF
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NASA International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) D1
Gridded cloud products for each 3-hour period during a day on a global, 280km equal-area grid- dataset Binary
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Terrestrial Water Budget Data Archive
The dataset authors have created a terrestrial water budget data archive on a 1-degree grid. They identified 13332 global stations with complete records and created 30-year...- dataset GRIB
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Argonne 0.2-Degree Land Use and Deposition Data
This dataset contains land use classification data on a 1/6 degree by 1/4 degree grid covering the United States from 52W longitude to 134W and from 24N latitude to 54N. Also...- dataset ASCII
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Arkin's Monthly Tropical Wind and OLR, 1968-1984
Monthly tropical strip wind and outgoing longwave radiation (OLR). OLR is the 1985 revised calibration. For the 1974-1978 period, the winds here are better than in the NMC...- dataset Binary
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Global Ocean Heat Flux and Wind Stress
The Climatic Research Institute at Oregon State University compiled these climatologies of ocean heat balance and wind stress for the global oceans. The input data was from the...- dataset ASCII
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Global Ocean Precipitation Frequency and Characteristics, by Petty
Grant Petty used the present-weather code values from COADS shipboard reports (1958-1991) to evaluate the frequencies and characteristics of global oceanic precipitation.- dataset ASCII
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Global Digital 1-Degree Soil Type and Surface Slope
Global data for soil type, texture, surface slope and other properties, at a 1 degree resolution. Based on FAO soil maps (1974) and on Matthews vegetation dataset (DS765.0....- dataset ASCII
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London's Global Total Ozone Analyses, monthly 1957Jul-1976
Global monthly total ozone grid data obtained from Dr. Julius London, University of Colorado where the data was key entered and checked.- dataset ASCII
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Nimbus-5 Selective Chopper Radiometer (SCR) 1972-1974
Data along the orbits for five brightness channels, Nimbus-5 SCR. Also includes daily global analyses of the channels.- dataset Binary
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Northern Hemisphere Weekly and Monthly Snow Cover
The U.S. National Earth Satellite Service (NESS) created hand-drawn Northern Hemisphere maps of snow and ice boundaries on a weekly basis starting in 1966. A satellite...- dataset ASCII
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GATE Analyses by Ooyama, Chu, and Esbensen
These volumes contain the Ooyama, Esbensen and Chu analysis of upper air soundings taken during Phase III of GATE. The analyzed data has been interpolated to a regular grid...- dataset Binary ASCII
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AVHRR Pathfinder Atmosphere (PATMOS) Climate Dataset
A reprocessing of Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Pathfinder atmosphere (PATMOS) results in a 20-year global climate dataset providing information on the...- dataset Binary
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Rand's Global Sea Surface Temperature and Ice Climatology
Monthly Average SST and Ice-Pack Limits, based on 1970s and pre-1970s data, derived from DS270.0 [http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds270.0/] and Navy data.- dataset ASCII
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Matthew's GISS Methane from Rice Cultivation
High-resolution global databases on the geographic and seasonal distribution of rice cultivation and associated methane emission, compiled by Matthews et al. (1991), have been...- dataset ASCII
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U.S.S.R. Various Global and Hemispheric Analyses, 1880-1985
As part of a data exchange involving climate data, DSS received various global and hemispheric gridded analyses from the U.S.S.R. The analyses include a long time series of...- dataset GRIB NetCDF
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Shea and Trenberth's Global Monthly Sea Surface Temperature Climatology
Shea, Trenberth, and Reynolds (CAC) made improvements to the Reynolds (CAC) SST data set in the regions of the Gulf Stream and Kuroshio Current.- dataset ASCII
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CPC Merged Analysis of Precipitation (CMAP)
Precipitation from five kinds of satellite estimates and the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis model output are combined for global coverage monthly precipitation values. The standard...- dataset NetCDF
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Tropical Marine Climatic Atlas, by Sadler
Monthly Climatology based on 1900-1979 COADS 2 by 2 degree monthly summary data, and in the case of surface pressure the NCAR 5 by 5 long term climatology.- dataset ASCII
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NMC Nimbus-5 Sea Ice and Rain Rate (ESMR) Data for February 1975
This dataset contains daily sea ice and rain rate data from the Nimbus-5 Electronically Scanned Microwave Radiometer (ESMR). The data, on a global 2.5-degree latitude/longitude...- dataset OTHER
