Data Sources

Land-Based Station Data (NCEI) | NCEI – National Centers for Environmental information / NOAA – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

ECA & D  European Climate Assessment & Database (daily data) | KNMI - Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut

WMSSC - World Monthly Surface Station Climatology | RDA – Research Data Archive, Computational & Information Systems Lab / NCAR – National Center for Atmospheric Research / UCAR - University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

GSOD - Global Surface Summary Of the Day (find a station) |  NCEI – National Centers for Environmental information / NOAA – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

GSOD - Global Surface Summary Of the Day (map server) |CDO - Climate Data Online / NCEI – National Centers for Environmental information / NOAA – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

OGIMET  | Servício de Información Meteorológica

SNIRH - Sistema Nacional de Informação de Recursos Hídricos | Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente

IGRA - Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive  | NOAA – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Atmospheric Soundings Wyoming Weather Web | College of Engineering, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming

E-OBS | ECA & D - European Climate Assessment & Database / KNMI - Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut

GPCP - Global Precipitation Climatology Project | GEWEX (World Climate Researche Programme, WMO) ftp://ftp-anon.dwd.de/pub/data/gpcc/html/download_gate.html (download from German Metorological Agency - Deutscher Wetterdienst)

Data

Reanalysis.org | CIRES, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (Boulder, University of Colorado)

Reanalysis datasets at PSD | PSD – Physical Sciences Division / ESRL – Earth System Research Laboratory / NOAA – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Climate Reanalyzer | University of Maine

IRI - Climate Data Library | IRI International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Earth Institute, Columbia University

Tools

MATLAB (comercial) | Mathworks

GrADS | Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, Institute of Global Environment and Society

IDV | Unidata Program Center (UPC), University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), Boulder, Colorado

Panoply | Robert B. Schmunk - NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

NCL | Computational & Information Systems Laboratory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

Wetter3 | Wetter3.de

Met Office | Met Office Digital Library and Archive - Daily Weather Report / Daily Weather Summary

EUMETSAT | EUMETSAT - European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites

MERRA - “Modern Era Retrospective-Analysis for Research and Applications” | GMAO – Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA (http://giovanni.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni/ - visualizer)

Paleoclimatology Datasets | NCEI – National Centers for Environmental information  / NOAA – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Historical Climatology Datasets | Georgetown University - Prof. Dagomar Degroot

Portal Tambora | Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg: Library & Department of Physical Geography

Hurricanes | NHC – National Hurricane Center / NOAA – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gis/ - GIS data)

ESWD | ESSL – European Severe Storms Laboratory