Useful Links for Climate Research
Datasets and Analytical Tools
- PSD Interactive Climate Analysis and Plotting Web-Tools
- NCEI Map Viewer: Map visualization and data selection by station, climate division, region, etc. of Daily, Monthly, Annual, Timeseries, Climatologies, Climate Indices, SST, sea ice, snow, SST, sea ice, snow
- US Station Climatologies: Climatologies of temperature, precipitation, and other variables for cities throughout the United States
- US Station Daily: time series, climatologies, and distributions
- NOAA Climate Change Web Portal: Mean temperature, precipitation, minTemp, maxTemp outputs and projections from CMIP5 experiments
- Average Hourly Climate Conditions – Climograms: Global climate station summaries
Compositing Tools
- Web-based Reanalysis Intercomparison Tool: Monthly Maps
- Monthly/Seasonal Maps and Composites: NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis
- Monthly/Seasonal Maps and Composites: US Climate Division Dataset
- Reanalysis Intercomparison Tools: e.g., ERA, MERRA, NCEP/NCAR
- Reanalysis Intercomparison Tools: Monthly/Seasonal Timeseries
- North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR)
Correlation Tools
Time series
- Section Plots (Hovmollers): Operational, R1, 20CR Reanalysis, OLR
- US Station Daily: time series, climatologies, and distributions
- Reanalysis Intercomparison Tools: Monthly/Seasonal Timeseries
Arctic Sea Ice Dataset
- Sea Ice Index Ice Analysis Spreadsheets
- Data Access to daily and monthly SIE and SIA data
- Hadley Center Sea Ice Data
- National Snow & Ice Data Center