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• 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
• Japan Meteorological Agency
• 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.
• A variety of upper atmosphere time series provided by Jonathan Kinnersley of the University of Washington.
• 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.
• "WaterWeb" search engine for hydrological data. Let me know if this is useful!

• Selected fields from the Japan Meteorological Agency
• NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction: reanalysis, precipitation, OLR fields
• Selected NASA model and satellite data from SIESIP

• Indian Monsoon data: meteorological fields and precipitation served by the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)
• 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 values of 16 variables for surface stations throughout the United States. There are three groupings in the daily data section, and you want the third group, "Data Files." Click on "- U.S. High Resolution--Select by Station (Cooperative, NWS)", and with a lot of patience you will be able to obtain the data.
• 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.

• Data of various spatial and temporal scales for the Americas and surrounding ocean regions in support of the Pan American Climate Studies program.
• Annual whaling statistics for 1910-2001
• Pacific fisheries data
• United Nations Global Resource Information Database (GRID) various environmental data bases (soil moisture retention, for example).

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