Climate topics
This list deals with the long-term mean state of the atmosphere, as well
as interannual variations
Climate data and
climate monitoring
- The National
Climatic Data Center (NCDC), USA,
in particular their monthly
US climate assessment, and US climate
summary for the last few years
- Global climate analysis (temp
and precip of last week-month-year), from NOAA's Climate
Prediction Center
- hydrometeorological climate data
in the USA,
from the National Weather Service
- US station climate summaries,
tabulated by month
- global climate
anomalies based on microwave imagery, from NOAA NESDIS
- monthly-mean gridded station
data (temperature and precip), from the University
of Delaware
- Australian climate data, from
the Bureau of Meteorology
- Global mean
surface temperatures, from NASA GISS
- World Glacier Monitoring Center, Switzerland
- Watch on volcanic
eruptions, by the University
of Wisconsin
- Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Center
(NOAA)
- Climate Information Digest,
a monthly publication by IRI, the International Research Institute for Climate
Prediction
- The Climate
Diagnostics Center
lets you make your own graphs of climate variables (NCAR/NCEP reanalysis):
Regional climate centers
Climate change
- Global Change Master Directory (or
try here), a comprehensive search and retrieval
system for Earth science data both for educational and research needs,
maintained by the Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA,
USA. All data
descriptions are written in the Directory Interchange Format, so they can
be read from many platforms.
- Global surface
temperature analysis, by NASA GISS
- Global Change, a
magazine
- Common Questions about
Climate Change, a document by WMO
- Our Changing Climate,
a Report to the Nation
- Links to climate
change research, by the University
of Munchen
- Climate-related reports, by
the Environmental News Network
- Global warming
and the third world: Tiempo, a UK
newsletter
- Climate change societal impact, a
UCAR initiative
- Climate variations:
regional impact, by IRI
- A primer on climate
change, a 1997 public policy summary by Environment Canada
- Climate Change
information kit, a survey of changes and global impacts (few figures),
by the United Nations Convention on Climate Change
- Global resources,
a brief survey of the state of current environmental crises, by the Union
of Concerned Scientists Site (addresses global warming, ozone depletion,
biodiversity, etc)
- “What’s up with the weather?”,
a PBS forum to accompany a 2 hour video with the same title, produced by
Nova/Frontline
- Global
warming, a 1999 summary by NCDC
- Global environmental change,
with up-to-date trend data, by the EPA
- The tragedy of
the Commons, about the impact on ecosystems
- Global
climate change: some quicktime movies, by Hope
College
- The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) home
- The Pew Center on Global Climate Change,
containing several authoritative reports, especially the Wigley report
(1999) and the report on sea
level change.
- Hurricanes
and climate change, by the US Global Change Research Program
- and Center for the
Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change and Still Waiting for the Greenhouse (two
climate-change-sceptic’s sites)
Paleoclimates
El Niño
Climate prediction and
modeling
Climate processes: field
research experiments
Stratospheric ozone
depletion
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- Last update: March 9, 2002. Please email corrections and new sites to Bart Geerts