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GEWEX NASA Water Vapor Project (NVAP)
A five year (1988-1992) total and layered global water vapor data set on 1 degree by 1 degree grids. This set is derived from radiosonde observations, TOVS and SSMI data....- dataset Binary
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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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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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GISS Global Methane and Livestock Distribution, 1-Degree
A global high resolution data base of animal population densities and associated methane (CH4) emissions has been developed at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies...- 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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Cogley and Briggs Global 1-Degree Precipitation Climatology and Topography
This dataset contains 1-degree global topography data and precipitation climatology.- 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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Ocean-atmosphere heat, momentum and freshwater flux, climatology, by Josey et al.
Simon A. Josey, Elizabeth C. Kent, and Peter K. Taylor compiled the SOC monthly mean flux atlas on a 1 degree by 1 degree grid. The fields have been derived from the COADS...- dataset NetCDF ASCII
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NSCAT Scatterometer Ocean Winds, Level 2
NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT) global ocean surface winds are determined from sigma-naught backscatter. JPL has provided the data, and the satellite provided only a short archive...- dataset Binary HDF
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Northern Hemisphere Climatological Grid Data
A selected 15-year climatology of the Northern Hemisphere using the Navy Marine Atlas Series and 5-year mean grids summarized from daily grids from the National Climatic Center...- dataset ASCII Binary
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Tropical Pacific Ocean 20-Year Surface Heat Budget
Monthly and annual means of various heat budget terms were derived for the tropical Pacific Ocean for a period of 20 years between 1957 and 1976, inclusive, from about five...- dataset ASCII
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Global Gridded Spectral Height and Temperature Fields
This dataset contains once-daily global gridded geopotential height and temperature at levels from 1000 millibars up to 1 millibar for the period from April 1979 to May 1994....- dataset Binary
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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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German IGY Tropical Sea Level Pressure, daily 1957Jun-1958
This dataset contains sea-level pressure data on a 5-degree latitude/longitude grid over the global tropics from 25S to 25N. The time period covered by the data is for the...- dataset Binary
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Climatological Data for Clouds Over the Globe from Surface Observations: The...
<p>TOTAL CLOUD Edition</p> <p> <font color="red">Superseded by the Extended Edited Synoptic Cloud Report Archive. See <font...- dataset ASCII
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NCDC Western Northern Hemisphere Stratospheric Analyses, weekly for January,...
The weekly stratospheric analyses of geopotential height and temperature in this dataset were produced from available radiosonde and rocketsonde data for the 5, 2, and 0.4...- dataset Binary
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Matthew's GISS Global 1-Degree Vegetation, Land-use and Albedo Data
This dataset, from Elaine Matthews of NASA, contains six databases of global 1-degree data for use in climate studies. The six databases are a vegetation dataset representing...- dataset ASCII
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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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Hourly SMS GATE Data
This satellite dataset was prepared for the period covering the GARP Atlantic Tropical Experiment (GATE) in 1974. The raw data are from the first Synchronous Meteorological...- dataset Binary
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Sadler's Tropical Pacific 250mb Wind Analyses, monthly 1966-1973
Aircraft and rawinsonde (300, 250, and 200mb) observations over the tropical Pacific were analyzed to produce monthly grids of wind at approximately 250mb for the periods...- dataset Binary
