Archive-name: weather/data/part1 Last-modified: 5 Jul 1994 Recent changes: ==within last two weeks== Corrected URL for www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/weekly.html in topic index ==within last four weeks== Added www.jpl.nasa.gov WWW site for images from shuttle Added www.rsmas.miami.edu WWW site for SST images Added WWW access to aprf.arl.mil Added WWW information for climate.gsfc.nasa.gov Added telnet access info for shelley.ca.uky.edu Changed file name for Internet resources for earth sciences info at csn.org This is a guide to Internet sources of meteorological, oceanographic, and geophysical data. Contents: 1) Overview 2) How to get a current copy of this document 3) How to use this document 4) Topic Index 5) List of sites 6) How to use the data retrieval methods Each (major) section has a "Subject:" line, so you can search on the subject title above to find the section quickly. --------------- Subject: Overview This is part 1 of a guide to various sources of meteorological, oceanographic, and geophysical data. Some of these data sets are intended for enjoyment or hobbyist use; other data are more research-oriented. Much of the research data is not free and is not directly available over the network; usually, only information about this data is available, and you must place an order for the actual data. The contents of this series of FAQs are: Part 1: Meteorological data available via the Internet Part 2: Meteorological data available via tape, CD-ROM, and other media The section on mailing lists which used to be included in this FAQ is now a separate FAQ, "Mailing lists and newsgroups for meteorology". This article is copyright (c) 1993 by Ilana Stern. It may be freely distributed for non-commercial purposes only, provided that this copyright notice and the instructions on retrieving a current copy are not removed. The information in this article is provided as-is, with no warranties or assurances as to its accuracy. I prefer that archives maintain current copies, since this information changes rapidly. If you would like to put this article in an archive and want to receive a new copy automatically at every update, please send me email. Corrections, additions, and comments should be sent to Ilana Stern at ilana@ncar.ucar.edu. Please include in your message where you read this document. Note that if I know about it, it's in this document. --------------- Subject: How to get a current copy of this document If you are reading this document after 26 Jul 1994, you are reading an outdated copy. A current copy can be obtained by anonymous FTP to rtfm.mit.edu, from the file weather/data/part1 in the directory /pub/usenet/news.answers. These files are updated every two weeks, when a new copy is posted to sci.geo.meteorology, news.answers, and sci.answers. This document also appears on the mailing lists CLIMLIST and met-stud, which are described in the FAQ, "Mailing Lists for Meteorology". If you can't use FTP, send email to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with send /pub/usenet/news.answers/weather/data/part1 as the only text in the message (leave the subject blank). Other sources for this document: ftp://vmd.cso.uiuc.edu/wx/sources.doc http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/weather/top.html (in somewhat hypertext form!) --------------- Subject: How to use this document As the amount of information available over the networks has been increasing, so have the methods by which this information can be obtained. No longer is direct usage of FTP the only, or even the most frequent, method of obtaining data; we now have Gopher, Wais, and WWW, as well as many site-specific interfaces. Because the information itself may be accessible in many different ways, this FAQ will identify resources in terms of URLs (Uniform Resource Locators). This will also help convert this FAQ to a hypertext document, so that it can be used with a WWW browser to go directly to any of the listed sources. Here's a glossary, so you can decode the URLs if necessary to reach the sites: ftp://host.name.domain/directory/[filename] ftp site http://host.name.domain/directory/[filename] www server telnet://host.name.domain telnet site gopher://host.name.domain gopher server wais://host.name.domain wais server news:newsgroup.name newsgroup So, for example, if a document is available at ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu/ it means that you should ftp to ncardata.ucar.edu, and the information is in the top-level directory. If you don't know what these information retrieval methods are, see the section "How to use the data retrieval methods". --------------- Subject: Topic Index 1) Current weather (satellite images) 2) Current weather and forecasts (maps, radar, soundings) 3) Current weather and forecasts (text) 4) Special event information (may be transient) 5) Other images 6) Map data 7) Research data and metadata 8) Software 9) Pointers to other resources This section lists the names and access protocol of sites of interest, with a brief blurb as to their contents. See section 5 for more information about these sites. Some sites appear more than once under different subject headings. Some sites have identical contents; please use the site closest to you. 1. Current weather (satellite images) a) North America b) Europe c) Pacific d) Other a. North America a1. Hourly GOES visible and IR (last few days) ftp://early-bird.think.com/pub/weather/maps/ ftp://ftp.uwp.edu/pub/wx/ ftp://kestrel.umd.edu/pub/wx/ ftp://wmaps.aoc.nrao.edu/pub/wx/ ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/multimedia/images/wx/ ftp://wx.research.att.com/wx/ gopher://wx.atmos.uiuc.edu:70/11/Images/ gopher://metlab1.met.fsu.edu/11/images/ http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/wxworld/html/satimg.html afs://afs/athena.mit.edu/project/weather a2. Daily full-disk GOES ftp://westsat.com/pub/images gopher://gopher.ssec.wisc.edu:70/11/gsdc.d/ a3. Image archives (older images) gopher://wx.atmos.uiuc.edu:70/11/Images/ ftp://westsat.com/pub/images gopher://nevado.srcc.lsu.edu/11/Images/GOES/ gopher://nevado.srcc.lsu.edu/11/Images/AVHRR/ a4. Other ftp://ats.orst.edu/pub/weather/ GOES vis/IR images of North, Central America ftp://cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca/photos/ GOES-7, NOAA-series images of central and eastern Canada (non-current) ftp://uriacc.uri.edu/davet.195/ (VMS) NOAA-11 images of the northeast US ftp://ftp.colorado.edu/pub/weather-images/ Visible and IR images of the US ftp://wilbur.stanford.edu/pub/weathergifs/ Visible and IR images of the US ftp://rainbow.physics.utoronto.ca/pub/sat_images/ NOAA-11/12 mosaic images of North America ftp://photo1.si.edu//More.Smithsonian.Stuff/nasm.planetarium/weather.gif/ NOAA and other satellite images ftp://snow.nohrsc.nws.gov/pub/jpg NOAA-10 and -11 AVHRR images of the US, Alaska and Canada false color composite of bands 1,3&4 in JPEG format gopher://ashpool.micro.umn.edu/11/Weather/Maps/ Visible and IR over North America gopher://cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca/11/photos/ GOES-7, NOAA-series images of central and eastern Canada (non-current) gopher://downwind.sprl.umich.edu/11/Weather_Images US IR and vis GIF images gopher://meteor.atms.purdue.edu/ GOES vis, IR, composites, enhanced images over US and Indiana gopher://metlab1.met.fsu.edu/11/images/ GOES 1.1 km vis images of Tallahassee, Orlando, Florida gopher://grizzly.uwyo.edu/ GOES vis, IR images of North America, western US, eastern US, plus floater wais://quake.think.com:210/weather/ Searchable weather index containing satellite maps http://thunder.atms.purdue.edu/ GOES vis, IR, composites, enhanced images over US and Indiana http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/wxworld/html/satimg.html GOES vis and IR over North America, MPEG animations http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/images.html SST off US east coast from high resolution NOAA polar orbiter http://rs560.cl.msu.edu/weather/ GOES visible and IR images over North America b. Europe ftp://cumulus.met.ed.ac.uk/ Meteosat vis/IR images of Europe ftp://ftp.sat.dundee.ac.uk/ NOAA AVHRR images of Europe ftp://liasun3.epfl.ch Meteosat vis/IR images of Europe ftp://plaza.aarnet.edu.au Full-disk GMS vis/IR images ftp://wilbur.stanford.edu Meteosat vis/IR images of Europe, Africa in gif format http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/english/Wetter/index.html Latest Meteosat vis/IR image of Europe, Africa in jpeg format http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/ NOAA AVHRR images of Europe gopher://ashpool.micro.umn.edu/11/Weather/Maps UK, Europe, Scandinavian visible and IR gopher://gopher.uni-bayreuth.de:70/11/Service/Meteosat/ Meteosat vis/IR images of Europe gopher://cognac-f.epfl.ch:70/11/Divers/meteo/ Images of Europe http://web.nexor.co.uk/places/satelite.html/ IR, vis images of Europe and N. Africa in gif and jpeg format http://rs560.cl.msu.edu/weather/ IR, vis images of Europe and N. Africa in gif and jpeg format telnet://cspnsv.csp.it:5000/ Meteosat images c. Pacific http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/english/Wetter/index.html ftp://boa.gsfc.nasa.gov/Weather/gms/ (for use by east America, Europe) Full-disk GMS vis/IR hourly images in gif and hdf ftp://ftp.jcu.edu.au/JCUMetSat/ GMS-4 images of Australia, TOGA/COARE area ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/pub/Weather/ (for use by west America) Full-disk GMS-4 vis/IR hourly images, GOES-7 half-hourly, in gif and hdf ftp://plaza.aarnet.edu.au/Weather (for use by Australia, NZ, Asia) Full-disk GMS vis/IR hourly images in gif and hdf ftp://westsat.com/pub/images/ Full-disk GOES images of Pacific ftp://hydro.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/data/noaa/ Quick-look HRPT images of Japan, Pacific in pgm format ftp://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/ 5-channel and SST data from AVHRR on NOAA-11, NOAA-12, full-disk and TOGA/COARE GMS-4 vis/IR hourly ftp://wilbur.stanford.edu/ Images of Australia, TOGA/COARE area in gif format gopher://babel.ho.bom.gov.au/11/Australian%20Weather%20Information/Images Images of Australia gopher://gopher.ncc.go.jp:70/11/INFO/weather/ GMS and NOAA images of Japan and Pacific gopher://nippori.tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ Quick-look NOAA jpg images of Pacific -- archive back to November 1992 http://rs560.cl.msu.edu/weather/ Full-disk GMS vis/IR hourly images in gif and hdf format http://life.anu.edu.au:80/weather.html Various images & forecasts for Australia, world http://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/ 5-channel and SST data from AVHRR on NOAA-11, NOAA-12, full-disk and TOGA/COARE GMS-4 vis/IR hourly http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/images.html SST in NW Pacific from high resolution NOAA polar orbiter d. Other ftp://photo1.si.edu//More.Smithsonian.Stuff/nasm.planetarium/weather.gif/ Images from various satellites gopher://gopher.ssec.wisc.edu/70/ Antarctic composite images, worldwide composite http://rs560.cl.msu.edu/weather/ Antarctic composite images, worldwide composite http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/images.html SST in various places from high resolution NOAA polar orbiter 2. Current weather and forecasts (maps, radar, soundings) a. US maps: 6-panel, UA, surface ftp://early-bird.think.com/pub/weather/maps/ ftp://ftp.uwp.edu/pub/wx/ ftp://kestrel.umd.edu/pub/wx/ ftp://wmaps.aoc.nrao.edu/pub/wx/ ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/multimedia/images/wx/ b. Other ftp://cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca/maps/ Canadian weather map (in French or English) (not current) ftp://ftp.colorado.edu/pub/weather-images/ Surface analyses, radar summaries, soundings for various locations ftp://unidata.ucar.edu/images/ Surface analyses, radar summaries, meteorgrams, skewT for various locations telnet://wind.atmos.uah.edu:3000/ Surface T, SLP, radar, wind, surface data for US and S.E. US (using WXP) gopher://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu:70/ Surface & upper air analyses, forecasts, meteorgrams for Vermont, N.E. US gopher://cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca/11/maps/ Canadian weather map (in French or English) (not current) gopher://downwind.sprl.umich.edu/11/Weather_Images Current Asian, European, South American temperatures and precipitation gopher://mcidas.uncc.edu/1mcidas.70 Southeast US skew-T, meteorgrams, mesoscale analyses, upper-air plots gopher://meteor.atms.purdue.edu/ Surface & upper air analyses, forecast model output, radar, skewT, meteorgrams for US states gopher://metlab1.met.fsu.edu/ Radar summaries, upper air plots, soundings, for US states; surface plots for US states, Canada, Caribbean gopher://grizzly.uwyo.edu/ Four-panel US maps from forecast models, meteorgrams, forecasts for US states, regional surface maps, radar gopher://unidata.ucar.edu:70/11/Images/ Surface analyses, radar summaries, meteorgrams, skewT for various locations gopher://vortex.weather.brockport.edu/11/ Forecast model output (ECMWF, NMC), Oswego lake effect model output images gopher://wx.atmos.uiuc.edu:70/11/Images/ Six-panel US maps (various variables), UA and surface maps (US, Canada) http://rs560.cl.msu.edu/weather/ Six-panel US maps (various weather variables), radar maps http://aristarchus.rutgers.edu/weather.html Weather map with radar (US) (updated every 20 minutes!): http://cs.indiana.edu/weather/panels.html Six-panel US maps http://cs.indiana.edu/weather/surface.html Current surface weather map http://thunder.atms.purdue.edu/ Surface & upper air analyses, forecast model output, radar, skewT, meteorgrams for US states http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/wxworld/html/top.html Surface and upper air analyses, 6-panel maps, soundings, forecast model output for US and US regions http://www.mit.edu:8001/weather/ Surface analysis for US, plus forecasts 3. Current weather and forecasts (text) A. Weather Undergrounds (US/Canada fcsts, global reports, ski conds, severe wx) B. Other North American forecasts C. Forecasts elsewhere a. Weather Undergrounds (US/Canada fcsts, global reports, ski conds, severe wx) gopher://downwind.sprl.umich.edu/11/Weather_Text telnet://downwind.sprl.umich.edu:3000/ telnet://hermes.merit.edu/ telnet://measun.nrrc.ncsu.edu:3000/ telnet://vortex.weather.brockport.edu:3000/ telnet://wind.atmos.uah.edu:3000/ b. Other North American forecasts ftp://ats.orst.edu/pub/weather/ Some US city and Oregon weather forecasts ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu/pub/weather/ Colorado weather forecasts telnet://duat2.wtp.gtefsd.com Aviation weather telnet://nevado.srcc.lsu.edu Observations and forecasts for US gopher://shelley.ca.uky.edu/11/.weather Zone forecasts for US States, central US river stage forecasts, detailed Kentucky information (login "kyag") gopher://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu:70/ Forecasts and summaries for US as whole, N.E. US gopher://ashpool.micro.umn.edu/11/Weather/ Current weather and forecasts for US, Canada gopher://gopher.atmos.albany.edu Forecasts and other weather products for eastern New York State gopher://gopherpc.abrfc.noaa.gov/ River stage forecasts for Arkansas-Red River Basin (central US) gopher://mcidas.uncc.edu/ Many National Weather Service products for Southeast US gopher://metlab1.met.fsu.edu/11/weather Florida weather and forecasts gopher://nevado.srcc.lsu.edu/ Observations and forecasts for south central US states gopher://owl.nstn.ns.ca/ Canadian forecasts gopher://shelley.ca.uky.edu/11/.weather Zone forecasts for US States, central US river stage forecasts, detailed Kentucky information gopher://vortex.weather.brockport.edu/ Current weather at SUNY brockport, US forecasts gopher://wx.atmos.uiuc.edu:70/ Current weather and forecasts for US, Canada, Caribbean http://rs560.cl.msu.edu/weather/ Current weather and forecast for Lansing, MI http://www.mit.edu:8001/weather/ Current weather and forecasts for US cities c. Forecasts elsewhere telnet://vicbeta.vic.bom.gov.au:55555/ Australian weather observations and forecasts gopher://babel.ho.bom.gov.au/11/Australian%20Weather%20Information Australian weather summaries, forecasts, warnings gopher://gopher.ncc.go.jp:70/11/INFO/weather/ Japan weather forecasts (in Kanji) gopher://tortel.dcc.uchile.cl:70/ Chilean weather forecasts (in Spanish) http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/deutsch/Wetter/meldungen.html Berlin weather (in German) 4. Special event information (may be transient) A. Still images B. Movies C. Text a. Still images ftp://unidata.ucar.edu/images/ Images of hurricanes Emily, Hugo, Beryl, Kevin ftp://ats.orst.edu/pub/weather/ Hurricane Andrew and Emily images ftp://ftp.colorado.edu/pub/weather-images/hurricane.andrew Hurricane Andrew images and weather maps ftp://ftp.colorado.edu/pub/weather-images/hurricane.emily Hurricane Emily images and weather maps ftp://ftp.met.fsu.edu/pub/hurricane_Andrew Hurricane Andrew images ftp://snow.nohrsc.nws.gov/ "Blizzard of 93", midwest flood, Malibu fires smoke plume jpeg images ftp://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/gumley/ Midwest flood images ftp://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/pub/spectactular Hurricane Fernanda images gopher://downwind.sprl.umich.edu/11/Weather_Archives/ Blizzard of 93, hurricanes Andrew, Hugo, Emily, Elena; tornado paths gopher://wx.atmos.uiuc.edu:70/11/Images/Hurricane%20Emily/ Hurricane Emily track (gif and ps) and image gopher://unidata.ucar.edu:70/11/Images/ Images of hurricanes Emily, Hugo, Beryl, Kevin http://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/fernanda.html Hurricane Fernanda images http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/weather.html California fires, hurricane Emily track http://www.sel.bldrdoc.gov/images/eclipse.html Images of May 10, 1994 annular eclipse b. Movies ftp://earthsun.umd.edu/JEI/GOES "Blizzard of 93" movie in .flc format ftp://sumex-aim.stanford.edu/pub/info-mac/art/qt/ Quicktime (for Macintosh) movie of "Blizzard of 93" gopher://ageninfo.tamu.edu/11/eclipse MPEG of GOES-7 and GOES-8 images during May 10 1994 eclipse http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/weather.html Hurricane Emily movies (mpg) http://ageninfo.tamu.edu/eclipse/ MPEG of GOES-7 and GOES-8 images during May 10 1994 eclipse c. Text ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/DMSP/SERVICES/WEEKLY/TCYCLONE Tropical Cyclone Weekly summary ftp://nic.fb4.noaa.gov/pub/cac CAC ENSO advisories and indices, monthly mean and anomaly fields gopher://cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca/11/climate/nino/ CAC ENSO advisories and indices (CMAF climate monitoring) http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/weekly.html Tropical Cyclone Weekly summary http://www.sel.bldrdoc.gov/ Space weather (magnetic and solar) 5. Other images ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/SPACE/CDROM/ Various earth-from-space images ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/pub/cdrom/ Viking, Magellan, Voyager images from CD-ROMs ftp://snow.nohrsc.nws.gov/ Snow cover maps of US derived from GOES and AVHRR ftp://sseop.jsc.nasa.gov/ Pictures taken from the space shuttle in bitmap format gopher://downwind.sprl.umich.edu/11/Weather_Archives/Clouds/ Images of Whole earth, various types of clouds telnet://sanddunes.scd.ucar.edu/ AVHRR images of USA http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/sircxsar.html SIR-C/X-SAR space radar images of Earth http://www.sel.bldrdoc.gov/ Space weather (magnetic and solar), current solar images 6. Map data ftp://csn.org/COGS/ Mapping software and datasets ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu/ Elevation data ftp://spectrum.xerox.com/pub/map/ Various USGS data gopher://ageninfo.tamu.edu/11/apl-us Shaded relief map of USA generated from ETOPO5 dataset http://ageninfo.tamu.edu/apl-us/ Shaded relief map of USA generated from ETOPO5 dataset http://www.ucar.edu/metapage.html Elevation data (choose "Research data" and then look at geophysical data) 7. Research data and metadata a) Primary data centers b) Other sites a. Primary data centers ftp://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/pub Data and information from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/ NGDC datasets, CD-ROM information ftp://ftppodaac.jpl.nasa.gov/ Info on datasets available from the JPL Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) ftp://hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/upload/inventories/ Info on datasets available from NCDC ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu/ Info on datasets available from NCAR, some small datasets directly available ftp://nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Info on NSSDC datasets and global change data telnet://eosdis.larc.nasa.gov Info on datasets available from EOSDIS (login "ims", password "larcims") telnet://esdim1.nodc.noaa.gov Info on datasets, satellites, sensors (login "NOAADIR") telnet://glis.cr.usgs.gov Info on datasets available from USGS telnet://hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov Info on datasets available from NCDC (login "storm", password "research") telnet://nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov Info on NSSDC datasets, and Global Change Master Directory (login "NSSDC") gopher://gopher.ngdc.noaa.gov/ NGDC datasets, CD-ROM information gopher://gopher.nodc.noaa.gov/ Connections to various government agencies: NOAA, NIST, EPA, DOE, etc. wais://ridgisd.er.usgs.gov DOE_Climate_Data.src: Contains info about climate data sets http://seazar.jpl.nasa.gov/ Info on datasets available from the JPL Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/upload/inventories/ Info on datasets available from NCDC (alias of hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov) http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ngdc.html National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), info about datasets http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/dmsp.html Info about, and sample data from Defense Meteorological Satellite Program http://www.sel.bldrdoc.gov/ Info about data products from NOAA's Space Environment Laboratory http://www.ucar.edu/metapage.html National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), info and small datasets http://info.er.usgs.gov/ United States Geological Survey (USGS) http://noaacdc.colorado.edu/cdc/cdc_home.html Info on data available from NOAA's Climate Diagnostics Center http://starhawk.jpl.nasa.gov/pds_home.html Info and data from NASA planetary missions and experiments b. Other sites ftp://aprf.arl.army.mil/pub/profiles/ Real-time wind and temperature profiles from White Sands, NM, USA ftp://ccg.cmdl.erl.gov/pub/ Carbon dioxide and methane observations from cooperative network ftp://cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca/climate/nino/ CAC ENSO advisories and indices ftp://hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/upload/blizzard Data from East coast blizzard ftp://jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/nimbus7 Nimbus-7 TOMS ozone data (not publication quality) ftp://jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/meteor3 Meteor-3 TOMS ozone data (not publication quality) ftp://atlantic.ocean.fsu.edu/pub/ East coast tidal heights and winds ftp://downdry.atmos.colostate.edu/ Atlantic basin tropical cyclone track data ftp://nasagiss.giss.nasa.gov/ Cloud, SST, surface T, vegetation data ftp://nic.fb4.noaa.gov/pub/cac CAC ENSO advisories and indices, monthly mean and anomaly fields ftp://srv1rvares.er.usgs.gov/hcdn92/ Streamflow data from USGS telnet://kuda.atd.ucar.edu Kuwait oil fire (1991) data from NCAR (login "kuda", password "science") telnet://storm.ofps.ucar.edu STORM-FEST data, link to NCDC (login "storm", password "research") gopher://cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca/11/climate/nino/ CAC ENSO advisories and indices (CMAF climate monitoring) gopher://diu.cms.udel.edu/ Ocean Information Center -- info on WOCE, TOGA/COARE, other ocean data gopher://nx1.soils.umn.edu:70/ U. Minnesota Soil Science Department/Climatology Working Group http://aprf.arl.army.mil/aprf.html Real-time wind and temperature profiles from White Sands, NM, USA http://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/~gumley/Home.html Information about the MODIS Airborne Simulator multispectral scanner http://diu.cms.udel.edu/ Ocean Information Center -- info on WOCE, TOGA/COARE, other ocean data http://graupel.mit.edu/Radar_Lab.html Information about MIT radar lab, and data archive metadata http://rainbow.ldgo.columbia.edu/ Climate datasets, bibliographies, ENSO forecast http://thunder.atms.purdue.edu:80/toga_atlas/ Climatology of the TOGA-COARE and Adjacent Regions http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/upload/blizzard Data from East coast blizzard (alias of hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov) http://www.service.uit.no/geofysisk/geofysisk.html Some magnetometer and meteorological data for Adventdalen, Norway wais://ridgisd.er.usgs.gov/ NOAA_National_Environmental_Referral_Service.src 8. Software ftp://acoustics.whoi.edu/public/Matlab/oceans Various oceanography-related Matlab stuff ftp://archive.afit.af.mil/pub/space/ NORAD (TLE) for NOAA sats, tide code ftp://atlantic.ocean.fsu.edu/pub/Tides/ Tide code (shareware) for IBM-PC compatible ftp://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/wiscombe/ Mie code, discrete ordinate code, thermo code ftp://cumulus.met.ed.ac.uk/calmet/ Software for computer-aided learning (CALMET) ftp://ftp.erc.msstate.edu/pub/griblib.tar.Z GRIB decode in C ftp://ftp.met.fsu.edu/ Data analysis software ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ Code and format description for HDF ftp://ftpnssl.nssl.uoknor.edu/pub/skaggs Humidity-wind chill-heat index program, sunrise calculation program ftp://hydro.princeton.edu/stamm/energy.budget/ Software for insolation, energy budget ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu/datasets/ds111.2/software GRIB decode in Fortran ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu/pub/SkewT Skew T - log P charting software gopher://downwind.sprl.umich.edu/ Air pollution model software, other? 9) Pointers to other resources ftp://csn.org/COGS/ores.txt Information on other Internet resources ftp://ftp.met.fsu.edu/pub/Internet_info/ Internet resource info gopher://downwind.sprl.umich.edu/ Resources for curriculum materials http://hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov/NASA_homepage.html NASA system-wide WWW server (choose LARC server for more resources) http://info.er.usgs.gov/network/index.html Hypertext network resources for science (assembled by USGS) http://life.anu.edu.au:80/weather.html Various images & forecasts for Australia, world; also other resources http://sci-ed.fit.edu/wx.html Pointers to many of these meteorological data sources http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/ A variety of resources for the atmospheric science community http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/DataSources/MetIndex.html Pointers to many of these meteorological data sources http://www.mth.uea.ac.uk/climateinfo.html Pointers to oceanography, meteorological, general physical science resources http://zia.geog.buffalo.edu/GIAL/netgeog.html Hypertext resource information, mostly for geography Subject: List of sites This section provides expanded listings of the sites in the previous section. Remember to set the transfer type to "binary" when retrieving images! acoustics.whoi.edu (FTP) Rich Pawlowicz's Matlab oceanography toolbox. Includes equations for physical properties of seawater, some geographical functions, and plotting routines. For use with Matlab 4.1. (rich@boreas.whoi.edu) ageninfo.tamu.edu (Gopher, WWW) Dept. of Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University server. Contains Digital Relief Map of USA based on ETOPO5, and other resources. Also has MPEGS of the May 10 1994 eclipse from GOES-7 and GOES-8. ames.arc.nasa.gov [128.102.18.3] (FTP) The SPACE directory has been moved to explorer.arc.nasa.gov. apollo.lsc.vsc.edu 70 (Gopher) (LYNDON STATE COLLEGE, VT/Department of Meteorology) Text products and McIdas weather images, including surface plots of the Northeast, meteograms and skew-T plots of ALB, PWM, and BTV, US satellite imagery, NGM forecast data, upper-air plots, and more. aprf.arl.army.mil [155.148.12.200] (FTP, WWW) Real-time, hour-averaged, qc'd, surface to stratosphere profiles of wind, temperature, and optical/radar turbulence from the Atmospheric Profiler Research Facility, White Sands, New Mexico. Change directory to "/pub/profiler". Data is available in tabular format in the subdirectory "hourly-profiles" and in graphical format in the subdirectory "hourly-profiles/images". This information is also available via WWW on this site at aprf.html. For further information, see the README, or e-mail to: wayne@aprf.arl.army.mil or jhines@arl.army.mil. archive.afit.af.mil (FTP) NORAD "Two-line Element"(TLE) data for the NOAA satellites series in directory "pub/space". Also, TIDES216.zip tide calc shareware. aristarchus.rutgers.edu (WWW) US Weather map with radar. (Currently doesn't appear to be active.) ashpool.micro.umn.edu (Gopher) (National Weather Service Forecasts) Weather forecasts by state. atlantic.ocean.fsu.edu [128.186.3.39] (FTP) East coast tidal heights and winds in "pub/Tidedata", QuickBasic IBM-PC shareware to compute tides and currents in "pub/Tides", Luyten & Stommel oceanographic atlas in "pub/LiveAtlas", and other related items. For information contact sturges@atlantic.ocean.fsu.edu. athena.mit.edu (AFS) (/afs/sites/athena.mit.edu/project/weather) Contains images from wx.atmos.uiuc.edu in various subdirectories (SATELLITE, SURFACE, etc.). The most recent images are flagged with the name 'latest' so you can easily find them. There's also an animation program. Contact ericldab@athena.mit.edu for more info. ats.orst.edu [128.193.120.19] (FTP) GOES IR and VIS images over North and Central America, plus a "floater" image which "could be anything." Also Oregon and US city forecasts. babel.ho.bom.gov.au (Gopher) Satellite images of Australia, and text weather forecasts and warnings for all states and territories. Includes connections to other weather resources. boa.gsfc.nasa.gov [128.183.93.16] (FTP) Same GMS images as explorer.arc.nasa.gov; this site should be used by East Coast and European sites. ccg.cmdl.erl.gov (FTP) NOAA/CMDL flask monitoring network for carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) atmospheric concentrations. Data is from many monitoring sites. Also in-situ continuous CO2 data from CMDL observatories. Change directory to /pub/co2 or /pub/ch4. cdiac.esd.ornl.gov [128.219.24.36] (FTP) Contains data and information on general and technical aspects of carbon dioxide, methane, and other trace gas emissions; the carbon cycle; and other climate-change topics from CDIAC (the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, address in section 3). The data for CDIAC's "Trends 91: A Compendium of Data on Global Change" is also available here. (Contact CDIAC at cdp@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov to obtain a copy of the book.) climate.gsfc.nasa.gov [128.183.46.16] (FTP, WWW) The directory "pub/wiscombe" contains various software of interest in several subdirectories, including Mie code by Warren Wiscombe, discrete ordinates radiative transfer code, and atmospheric thermodynamics code. Also, cloud-free images of midwest flooding in directory "pub/gumley". For access via a WWW browser, http://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/~gumley/Home.html contains information about the MODIS Airborne Simulator (multispectral scanner). cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca [142.97.22.42] (Gopher, FTP, WWW) (Ontario Climate Gopher) Atmospheric Environment Service (Canada) site containing CAC (Climate Analysis Center) ENSO advisories updated monthly (between the 10th and 15th), and CAC ENSO indices in the directory "climate/nino". Also has (non-current) Canadian weather maps, satellite photos (mostly Ontario and eastern Canada), and forecasts (mostly Ontario); hopefully, these will be updated in the future. This site is also accessible via a WWW browser by opening the URL http://cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca/, but apart from the addition of "Climate Perspectives" (which is apparently under construction), this link just links to the gopher service. csn.org [128.138.213.21] (FTP) Change directory to "COGS". A large file containing detailed information on FTP sites, Bitnet and Usenet discussion groups, and data sources is located in the file "ores.txt". This file contains more information on mapping, GIS, remote sensing, and geology, subjects which are mostly outside the scope of this meteorology-oriented FAQ. Mapping software and datasets are also available in this directory. Contact bthoen@csn.org (Bill Thoen) for more information. cspnsv.csp.it 5000 (Telnet) Include the "5000" when connecting to the machine. This runs a program, "METEO-WINDOW" on a Cray, with a remote graphics display on your machine. The first time, you will be asked to send mail to meteo-window@csp.it with the numerical address of your graphics terminal (must be running X-windows). METEO-WINDOW displays Meteosat satellite images and weather information of general interest (in English) and of the Piedmont, Italy region (in Italian). For more information contact Michele.Lionetti@csp.it. cumulus.met.ed.ac.uk [129.215.168.19] (FTP) Change directory to "images". IR and visible images of Europe from Meteosat, twice daily, in 1152 x 900 GIF format (size of Sun root window). Also Atlantic area and African images. The subdirectory "gifs" has smaller 3x daily images of the Nordic areas, the UK, and Europe. The directory "animations" contains movies in .fli and MPEG formats. Software to uncompress "gzip" files is here too. Info from gcw@met.ed.ac.uk (Gordon Watson) The directory "calmet" contains software and documents in support of computer-aided learning in meteorology; it is associated with the CALMET mailing list described in section IV of this document. The file "intro_to_calmet" in the "documents" subdirectory describes how to find what's available. diu.cms.udel.edu [128.175.24.6] (WWW, Gopher) OCEANIC, the Ocean Information Center, contains information about data collected for both the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) and the Tropical Oceans and Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA COARE). In addition OCEANIC has a searchable international research ship schedule database, a searchable directory of names/addresses/e-mail of scientists involved in WOCE and numerous links to WOCE data facilities and other oceanographic information systems. This system is still in an evolutionary phase but is for the most part fully functional. For more information, questions, comments, etc. please e-mail oceanic@diu.cms.udel.edu or call (302)645-4278. downdry.atmos.colostate.edu [129.82.107.154] (FTP) Atlantic basin tropical cyclone best track data, 1886-1992. Every 6 hour intensity and position information. README.atl is the documentation, tra86to92.atl is the data. Provided by landsea@downdry.atmos.colostate.edu (Chris Landsea). downwind.sprl.umich.edu 3000 [141.212.196.177] (Telnet, Gopher) Include the "3000" when connecting to the machine. This is the University of Michigan's Weather Underground, a menu driven system which has a large variety of information, including US and Canadian weather forecasts, ski conditions, earthquake reports, severe weather reports, and current weather conditions for some international cities. This machine is also accessible by gopher (omit the 3000 when connecting). The same information is available, along with other educationally-oriented information. duat2.wtp.gtefsd.com [131.131.7.106] (Telnet) This service is intended for pilots. You can log in as a guest by hitting return when asked for your as your pilot certification number, and entering N12345 when asked for your aircraft tail number. Various weather products are available including SA, UA, and severe weather info. Hit '?' for help whenever you are confused by a prompt. DUATS can also be accessed directly by 1-800-767-9989 at 9600 baud. early-bird.think.com [131.239.2.1] (FTP) Mirror site for vmd.cso.uiuc.edu in pub/weather/maps. earthsun.umd.edu [132.178.15.9] (FTP) Change directory to "/JEI/GOES". 48-hour sequence derived from GOES IR images is in the file "storm.zip" which was compressed with PKZIP 2.04. It is a 640x480 .FLC file and thus requires either running the sequence on a UNIX box or on a DOS machine with a SVGA card that is moderately VESA compatible with 512K RAM. PLAY79.EXE (for DOS) is available on the same site; xanim (for Unix) is available from cs.orst.edu (/pub/src/printers/xanim/xanim.tar.Z) and other sites. (For more info contact Christopher Keane, keane@earthsun.umd.edu.) eosdis.larc.nasa.gov [192.107.191.17] (Telnet) The Langley Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) archives and distributes Radiation Budget, Cloud, Aerosol, and Tropospheric Chemistry Data to the general science community. Data are available via FTP, tape and CD-ROM. Users can use telnet to the DAAC IMS (Information Management System) to place an order. The IMS features a graphical user interface, so you must have an X window or Sun OpenWindows display. (You can contact DAAC by telephone or email as well -- see section III.) Use 'ims' as the login and 'larcims' as the password. For more information contact Sue Sorlie (userserv@eosdis.larc.nasa.gov). esdim1.nodc.noaa.gov [140.90.235.10] (Telnet) Login as "NOAADIR". Menu-driven system will let you select datasets from various government sources according to search parameters, and will give you contact addresses and other information on them. You can also get information about satellites, sensors, and research experiments. explorer.arc.nasa.gov [128.102.32.18] (FTP) Visible and IR hourly GMS-4 images in gif format (neat pictures, may be enhanced), and in hdf format (raw, intended for research), in the directory "pub/Weather/GMS-4". Resolution is 5 km so images are 2-3 MB in size. The hdf files have navigation information included. The "pub/Weather/GOES-7" directory contains half-hourly visible and IR GOES-7 images in gif and hdf formats; the IR data is 8 km resolution and the VIS is a very large 4 km resolution. For more information contact medin@cincsac.arc.nasa.gov (Milo S. Medin). The directory "cdrom" contains Viking, Magellan, and Voyager data, and the directory "pub/SPACE" contains various earth-from-space images and information. This site is for users "near" California; East Coast US and European sites should connect instead to boa.gsfc.nasa.gov, and Australian sites should use plaza.aarnet.edu.au. (The GOES-7 data doesn't appear to be on these sites yet.) ftp.colorado.edu [128.138.129.2] (FTP) Change directory to "pub/weather-images". Weather radar summary map GIFS and PICT files, surface maps, satellite images for several US cities and regions. Also images and other stuff for Andrew in the subdirectory "hurricane.andrew". ftp.erc.msstate.edu (FTP) GRIB decode in C in "pub/griblib.tar.Z". ftp.jcu.edu.au [137.219.16.14] (FTP) Change directory to "JCUMetSat". GMS-4 images updated regularly for various Australian states, Australia as a whole, the globe, the TOGA/COARE area, and events of interest such as cyclones. The images are in a format designed for the package JCUMetSat on Amiga computers, but can be converted to GIF format using the ALCHEMY software (shareware) available at this site. (More information on the format and images can be obtained from Professor C.J. Kikkert, eecjk@marlin.jcu.edu.au.) ftp.met.fsu.edu [128.186.5.56] (FTP) This FTP site at Florida State University is mostly a repository for public domain software and shareware that is useful to atmospheric scientists. There are also Hurricane Andrew images in the directory "/pub/hurricane_Andrew". The file "internet.tex" in the "pub/Internet_info" directory contains an article by Jon Ahlquist about Internet resources for atmospheric scientists; this was published in the March 1993 Bulletin of the AMS, but the on-line version will be updated from time to time. For more information contact ahlquist@met.fsu.edu. ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu (FTP) Code and software for HDF data format. ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov [192.149.148.109] (FTP) Some publically accessible data and tools from NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center. Also, information on NGDC CD-ROM products. More information available from info@ngdc.noaa.gov This information is also available by NGDC's Gopher and WWW servers. ftp.sat.dundee.ac.uk [134.36.22.15] (FTP, WWW) Dundee University archive of NOAA AVHRR / HRPT images of Europe for the last 15 years, with on-line access to lower resolution images (Quicklooks) for the last six months, and a full resolution data service on request. For information contact Alan Muir (asm@ua.ndu.ac.uk). ftp.uwp.edu [131.210.1.4] (FTP) Mirror site for vmd.cso.uiuc.edu in pub/wx. ftpnssl.nssl.uoknor.edu (FTP) Change directory to "/pub/skaggs". Fortran program to calculate windchill and heat index based on NWS code, and to interconvert humidity variables based on Smithsonian Meteorological Tables. Also code to calculate sunrise and sunset. Questions to gary@skaggs.nssl.uoknor.edu. glis.cr.usgs.gov [152.61.192.54] (Telnet) This is a menu driven system (Global Land Information System) which allows users to search a list of research datasets available from the EROS Data Center at USGS, and order data if desired. Most of the data are ecosystem maps and elevation/depth maps. gopher.atmos.albany.edu (Gopher) SUNY Albany Atmospheric Science Gopher. gopher.ciesin.org [160.39.1.202] (Gopher) (CIESIN-NASA-EOS Global Change Information Network) This gopher server has some papers on global change (not many yet). Under the "Environmental Internet Catalog" there are resources under various useful topics, particularly under "Earth Science", "Ecology and the Environment", and "Weather and Meteorology". It allows gopher access to some of the FTP and telnet resources described in this document. Comments should be sent to CIESIN.Info@ciesin.org. gopher.ncc.go.jp (Gopher) (National Cancer Center, Tokyo JAPAN) Select "Other-information" and then "weather". This is a joint system between the National Cancer Center and the Japanese Weather Association. Files are updated every 3 hours. gopher.ngdc.noaa.gov [192.149.148.109] (Gopher) (National Geophysical Data Center) Some publically accessible data and tools from NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center. Also, information on NGDC CD-ROM products. Connections to other data services, NOAA environmental gopher, other gateways. (This service is still under developement.) More information available from info@ngdc.noaa.gov. gopher.nodc.noaa.gov (Gopher) Appears to be a gopher connection to the same sort of thing as esdim1.nodc.noaa.gov (datasets from various government sources). Also allows connections to various government agency info (NASA, NOAA, NIST, DOE, Dept. of Interior, EPA, USDA). gopher.ssec.wisc.edu (Gopher) (Space Science and Engineering Center, U. of Wisconsin-Madison) This server currently offers near real-time daily browse GIF images from the GOES satellite and 8 Antarctic browse GIF images per day. The Antarctic browse (funded by NSF) is a composite of 5 geostationary and 2 polar satellites covering the area from 45 degrees south to the South Pole. General background information about McIDAS is also available. Some images from the new GOES-8 area also available. For information contact Steve Rader (rader@ssec.wisc.edu) gopherpc.abrfc.noaa.gov [192.133.17.165] (Gopher) (Arkansas-Red River Forecast Center) This server contains forecasts of river levels and flood stages for the mainstem rivers in the Arkansas-Red River Basin area (AR, CO, OK, LA, MO rivers). graupel.mit.edu (WWW) MIT Weather Radar Laboratory information under Radar_Lab.html. grizzly.uwyo.edu (Gopher) Weather satellite images and forecast model output, meteorgrams and some forecasts and observations for US states and regions. hanauma.stanford.edu [36.51.0.16] (FTP) The CIA World Bank database contains coastlines, rivers and political boundaries. An 0.5 degree elevation dataset is also there. A program for decoding the CIA data can be found as "mfil" on pi1.arc.umn.edu [137.66.130.11] (Info from ken@msc.edu) NOTE this site no longer exists. This information *may* be moved to oas.stanford.edu sometime in the future. I'll try to keep an eye on the situation. hermes.merit.edu [35.1.48.150] (Telnet) Type um-weather at the "Which Host?" prompt and use menus. (Connects to downwind.sprl.umich.edu) hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov [192.67.134.72] (FTP, Telnet, WWW) Information on datasets available from NCDC (the National Climatic Data Center) in "/pub/upload/inventories". These are inventories of the contents of various datasets. If you find this information useful, please send email to tross@ncdc.noaa.gov, as NCDC wants to evaluate this service. If you wish to order data after browsing this information, contact their customer service department at 704-271-4800. This site is also reachable by telnet using "storm" as the login and "research" as the password, or by using a WWW browser such as Mosaic and opening http://hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov. Also available in the directory "/pub/upload/blizzard" is a file "storm.txt" containing observations from the 1993 "Storm of the Century." hydro.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp (FTP) Change directory to "data/noaa". NOAA quick look images of the area around Japan are recieved and processed by Takagi Laboratory in Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo. The images are in Portable GrayMap file format(PGM), which can be easily converted to other image formats using `pbmplus' utilities. The mmddhhQL.pgm.Z files are images (mm=month, dd=day, hh=hour) of size 512x480. hydro.princeton.edu (FTP) Insolation calculation from Berger model and energy balance from Pease model in directory "stamm/energy.budget". Provided by John Stamm, jstamm@phoenix.Princeton.EDU. jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov (FTP) Nimbus-7 and Meteor-3 daily gridded Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) ozone data. Change directory to /pub/nimbus-7 or /pub/meteor3. Read the README files in each directory and other text files...user is warned that the data are not archive quality and not suitable for publication. Data will eventually be archived with the GSFC DAAC. kestrel.umd.edu [129.2.110.31] (FTP) Mirror site for vmd.cso.uiuc.edu in pub/wx. Also archives gifs and programs (not messages) from the Wxsat mailing list (see part 3 of this FAQ) in pub/wxsat. kuda.atd.ucar.edu [128.117.84.65] (Telnet) Log in as "kuda" with "science" as the password. This will put you into a database program which will allow you to select from many types of atmospheric measurements and supporting data from the Persian Gulf region during the Kuwait oil well fires (1991). Inventory includes aircraft measurements of particulates, chemistry, radiation, and state parameters, surface-based meteorological, air quality, and radiation measurements, model output grids, and digital satellite images from NOAA and DMSP polar orbiters. For more information, contact kudastaff@kuda.atd.ucar.edu, or Julie Haggerty at 303/497-1058. liasun3.epfl.ch (FTP) Change directory to "pub/weather". IR and visible images of Europe from Meteosat, in GIF format. It appears that this site contains the same images as cumulus.met.ed.ac.uk. life.anu.edu.au 80 (WWW) Australian National University Bioinformatics server. Connections to many weather resources worldwide on their very nice Weather Page (weather.html). Comments to David.Green@anu.edu.au. mcidas.uncc.edu (Gopher) UNC/Charlotte Earth Science server. MCIDAS images and many text products from the NWS for the Southeast US, including forecasts, climate summaries, air pollution, severe weather, precipitation. measun.nrrc.ncsu.edu 3000 (Telnet) Include the "3000" when connecting to the machine. This is a menu driven system which has a large variety of information, including US and Canadian weather forecasts, ski conditions, earthquake reports, severe weather reports, and current weather conditions for some international cities. (Weather Underground at NCSU, similar to UM service.) meteor.atms.purdue.edu (Gopher) (Purdue University WXP Gopher) This gopher site includes satellite images, surface plots and analyses, upper air plots and analyses, soundings, radar, and plots of the results from various NMC forecast models. A very nice feature of this gopher is the "plot summary" in each directory, which explains very clearly the meteorological usefulness and interpretation of the various plots. Questions and comments to devo@cell.atms.purdue.edu. metlab1.met.fsu.edu (Gopher) This gopher site includes satellite images, surface plots and analyses, upper air analyses, soundings, and radar for the US (some Canadian plots), and text forecasts for Florida. The ftp site ftp.met.fsu.edu can be accessed via this site. nasagiss.giss.nasa.gov [192.42.70.2] (FTP) Various monthly mean data files, including ISCCP C2 cloud data, surface temperature anomalies, grids of various variables used in the GCM II (General Circ. Model). Also various maps of vegetation indices, cultivation indices, wetland ecosystems. The file "GISS.HELP" contains an index to the contents of this FTP area. Contact giss@nasagiss.giss.nasa.gov for help or more information. (Note: you will be asked for a password -- just enter your email address.) ncardata.ucar.edu [128.117.8.111] (FTP) Information on datasets available from NCAR (the National Center for Atmospheric Research), and a few small datasets. If you would like to order data after browsing this information, email to datahelp@ncar.ucar.edu. Small datasets can be provided by FTP; we also write various kinds of tapes. See the README file. The "pub/weather" subdirectory contains Colorado weather and (in season) ski condition reports. A few special datasets are located in the FTP area, and are free. They are described in the file "pricing". These include a 1 deg resolution elevation dataset, a continental outline dataset, and a list of all WMO stations with latitude, longitude, and elevation. This ftp area can also be accessed with a nifty hypertext interface via www.ucar.edu (WWW) by selecting "Research Data Archive". nevado.srcc.lsu.edu (Telnet, Gopher) The Southern Regional Climate Center operates a gopher and telnet site, with data mostly for the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. There is some other US data available through the telnet site (login srcc). nic.fb4.noaa.gov (FTP) Selected monthly mean and anomaly fields [from the Climate Diagnostic Data Base (CDDB)] are in the directory "/pub/cac/cddb"; tropical indices are in the subdirectory "indice" within that directory. Text for the Climate Diagnostics Bulletin and ENSO Advisory is available in the directory "/pub/cac/nino". noaacdc.colorado.edu (WWW) The Climate Diagnostics Center (CDC), previously the Climate Research Division of the ERL Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL), conducts diagnostic studies of climate variability on time scales of months to centuries. CDC climatological data is archived in netCDF format. This site gives access to metadata (information about these datasets) which can be searched by various keywords; actual data must be ordered from CAC by email or fill-in forms. nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (FTP or Telnet) Telnet: The National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) On-Line Data and Information Service (NODIS) is a menu-driven interactive system which provides information on services and data supported by NSSDC. Login as NSSDC. Some topics: Nimbus-7 GRID TOMS Data, Geophysical Models, Standards and Technology Information System. NODIS also provides access to the Global Change Master Directory, a multidisciplinary on-line information system containing descriptions of Earth and space science data holdings available to the science community. These include data from NASA, NOAA, NCAR, USGS, DOE (CDIAC), EPA, NSF and other U.S. and international agencies, universities, and research centers. FTP: some information and actual data is also available via anonymous FTP. For more information contact MDUSO@NSSDCA.GSFC.NASA.GOV. nx1.soils.umn.edu [128.101.77.165] (Gopher) (MN Climatology Working Group) This gopher directory contains lots of files with climate data for Minnesota. Comments and questions to gopher-admin@soils.umn.edu. owl.nstn.ns.ca (Gopher) Canadian site for Canadian forecasts. photo1.si.edu [160.111.16.2] (FTP) Change directory to "/More.Smithsonian.Stuff/nasm.planetarium" (case sensitive!). The subdirectory "weather.gif" has 640 X 480 X 256 GIF89a format (some older files in GIF87a) images from NOAA and Meteor polar orbiting weather satellites, maybe others. Images will remain here for a few weeks -- some of the more exceptional images will be placed in a longer-term archive under the subdirectory "/weather.archive". Files will be named sssdddd*.gif where sss is the spacecraft (e.g. N11= NOAA-11, M33=Meteor 3-3), dddd is the date, and * is a descriptor (see the readme information). HRPT visible and IR images of the recent California fires are available in the subdirectory "calif.disaster". The f1----.gif series is the Laguna fire, f2----.gif series is the Malibu fire, and the f3----.gif series is the Northridge fire. For more information, contact nasep007@sivm.si.edu (Geoff Chester). plaza.aarnet.edu.au [139.130.4.6] (FTP) Same GMS images as explorer.arc.nasa.gov, in the "weather" directory; this site should be used by Pacific sites only. quake.think.com [192.31.181.1] (WAIS) (Weather.src) Service: 210 Database: weather Currently you'll get the best results by asking this server for 'weather'. The returned list of files should include this file, as well as the day's satellite weather maps. You might want to refine your search by including "gif" if you'd rather get the maps, or "txt" if you want the textual weather forecasts. You can try by city name, too. Comments to weather-server@quake.think.com. rainbow.ldgo.columbia.edu (WWW) This is the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University's Climate Group's server. The "Data Library" contains various climatologies for the ocean and atmosphere, and topographic data, along with a nice interactive system for selection and display of data. rainbow.physics.utoronto.ca (FTP) NOAA-11/12 mosaic GIF images of North America derived from HRPT (High Resolution Picture Transmission) data stream. Change directory to "/pub/sat_images". The images are 1280 x 1024 mosaics of successive passes of either NOAA-11 or NOAA-12 and cover an area from 40 deg W to 130 deg W and from 70 deg N to 20 deg N. At present, only images derived from Channel 4 are being posted. Four mosaics will be posted daily, named mmmdd_noaa##.TT.gif where ## is the satellite number (11 or 12) and TT is the time (am or pm). Images will remain accessible for two days. To assist in the interpretation of the images, coastlines, rivers and lakes have been superimposed. The resolution of the images has been reduced to approximately 4 km, but full resolution images of particular areas of interest may be available upon request. For information contact moore@rainbow.physics.utoronto.ca (Professor G.W.K. Moore). ridgisd.er.usgs.gov [130.11.48.107] (WAIS) (DOE_Climate_Data.src) Service: 210 Database: /usr/opt/wais/db/DOE_Climate_Data (NOAA_National_Environmental_Referral_Service.src) Service: 210 Database: /usr/opt/wais/db/nedres Contains information about various climate data sets. The maintainer is tgauslin@ridgisd.er.usgs.gov. sanddunes.scd.ucar.edu (Telnet) AVHRR (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer) images from 1989 through 7 Jan 1992 cover CO, WY, KS, NE, and NM, as well as parts of AZ, UT, OK, and TX. Since 7 Jan 1992, coverage includes these plus CA, OR, NV, WA, and MT, to 1000 km off Pacific coast. Total coverage of US for 1989-present will be available soon. West coast data from 1980-1985 will be available some time this year. Images are 1024 lines x 1024 elements before 7 Jan 1992, 2560 lines x 1024 elements after. Images are 1 km resolution and 8-bit format. Contact Tim Kelley by email kelley@sanddunes.scd.ucar.edu or telephone 303/497-1221 for login, password, and manual. Service is free to Internet users and is funded by NASA. satftp.soest.hawaii.edu [128.171.154.29] (FTP, WWW) Sea-Surface-Temperature data (near-real-time) in the directory "pub/avhrr/images". AVHRR images within the radius of reception of the university's HRPT station, approximately 5 S to 45 N and 125 W to 165 E, as well as other stations in the continental US. The processed images are available usually within 30 min. of NOAA-11 and NOAA-12 passages. GMS-4 images of the full GMS coverage area and over the TOGA-COARE area are available in /pub/GMS. Data are available in TDF format, PostScript, and GIF format, labelled by satellite name (n11/n12/g4) and time. Also see "pub/spectactular" directory for images of Hurricane Fernanda. This site concentrates on the generation of higher level products, calibrated in scientific units and registered, that can be used for time series analysis without having to deal with satellite geometries. This site is also accessible via WWW at http://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu. More info available from sat_lab@soest.hawaii.edu. sci-ed.fit.edu (WWW) Pointers to weather related sites in wx.html. seazar.jpl.nasa.gov (FTP, WWW) This site contains information about data products available from the JPL Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC). Products available from PO.DAAC are largely satellite derived, and include: sea-surface height, surface-wind vector (and sigma-nought), surface-wind speed, surface-wind stress vector, integrated water vapor, atmospheric liquid water, sea-surface temperature, sea-ice extent and concentration, heat flux, and in-situ data as it pertains to satellite data. Also available by ftp at ftppodaac.jpl.nasa.gov. shelley.ca.uky.edu (Gopher, Telnet) University of Kentucky College of Agriculture Gopher server. US Zone forecasts by state, plus detailed forecasts and observations for Kentucky. Also includes river conditions for central US states under the NWS products menu. For telnet access, log in as "kyag". snow.nohrsc.nws.gov [192.46.108.1] (FTP) Various snow-related images in GIF format. US snow cover map updated weekly. JPEG of current AVHRR images. This site will be operational for the 1994 snow season from in December 1993 through June 1994. Also included are JPEG images of the east coast during the March 1993 blizzard, and of the midwest during the July 1993 flood. Contact tim@snow.nohrsc.nws.gov (Tim Szeliga) for more info. spectrum.xerox.com [192.70.225.78] (FTP) Various USGS data in subdirectories under the directory "pub/map". srv1rvares.er.usgs.gov [130.11.51.209] (FTP) USGS streamflow data from the HCDN data set, 1874-1988 CD-ROM (see CD-ROM section) by Slack et al in the directory "hcdn92". sseop.jsc.nasa.gov [146.154.11.34] (FTP) Many pictures taken from the space shuttle. Files are in a 512x512 format as red, green, and blue bitmaps. Image files are binary format, and have .DAT as an extension. starhawk.jpl.nasa.gov (WWW) Access to various http (WWW) and telnet catalogs of data from past and present NASA planetary missions, astronomical observations, and laboratory measurements. storm.ofps.ucar.edu [128.117.90.53] (Telnet) Hourly and 5-minute composite surface observations, and composite rawinsonde soundings, from STORM-FEST. Log in as "storm" with the password "research" to access a menu-driven system which will allow you to search for the data you want. You can also connect to the NCDC site hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov through these menus. (Contact Mark Bradford, bradfrd2@ncar.ucar.edu if you have questions.) sumex-aim.stanford.edu (FTP) Quicktime (for Macintosh) movie of "Blizzard of 93" in the file /pub/info-mac/art/qt/blizzard-of-93.hqx. (Binhexed file.) thunder.atms.purdue.edu (WWW) (Purdue University WXP Web site) This site includes satellite images, surface plots and analyses, upper air plots and analyses, soundings, radar, and plots of the results from various NMC forecast models. The text on each page explains very clearly the meteorological usefulness and interpretation of the various plots. Questions and comments to devo@cell.atms.purdue.edu. tortel.dcc.uchile.cl [146.83.4.40] (Gopher, Telnet) (Universidad de Chile) Weather forecasts for Chile, in Spanish. Choose the menu items "Servicios Miscelaneos", then "Pronosticos Meteorologicos", and then "Informe Diario Direccion Meteorologica de Chile". For telnet access, log in as "gopher" (no password) and continue as above. unidata.ucar.edu [128.117.140.3] (Gopher, FTP) FTP: Change directory to "images". Weather radar summary map GIFS, surface maps for various places, a few soundings on skew-t log-p diagrams, GOES Hugo images (in subdirectory "images/hugo"). Surface maps include Europe and China. uriacc.uri.edu [131.128.1.1] (FTP) Change directory to "davet.195". Images of the northeast US in GIF format from the afternoon passes of NOAA-11. (Provided by Dave Tetreault, DAVET@uriacc.uri.edu.) vicbeta.vic.bom.gov.au 55555 [134.178.130.2] (Telnet) Include the 55555 when connecting to the machine. Australian weather observations and forecasts via a menu-driven system. vmd.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.98] (FTP) Information on WX-TALK and other mailing lists, companies that hire meteorologists, radio frequencies used to broadcast hurricane information, satellite reception, and other subjects. The images which used to be here are no longer here, but are available at other sites (see topic index). vortex.weather.brockport.edu 3000 (Telnet, gopher) Another weather underground. Other information available by gopher to the same site (omit the 3000). wais.cic.net [192.131.22.3] (WAIS) (midwest-weather.src) Service: 210 Database: midwest-weather National Weather Service forecasts for midwest U.S. states, updated hourly from the `gopher' weather server at the U of Minnesota by emv@cic.net. web.nexor.co.uk (WWW) Links to various European satellite photos (/places/satelite.html). westsat.com [192.215.1.50] (FTP) Full-disk GOES images in GIF format. Current pictures are in the directory "pub/images"; older pictures and more information are in "pub/west". Contact steve@netsys.com (Steve Eigsti) for info. Some of these images are now appearing in the new newsgroup biz.pagesat.weather. wilbur.stanford.edu [36.14.0.30] (FTP) Change directory to "pub/weathergifs". IR and visible images of Europe from Meteosat, in GIF format. It appears that this site contains the same images as cumulus.met.ed.ac.uk. Also has satellite images of US. wind.atmos.uah.edu 3000 [146.229.8.2] (Telnet) Include the 3000 when connecting to the machine. This is the University of Alabama at Huntsville's Weather Underground, a menu-driven system which has forecasts, climate data, and current observations for US cities, severe (US) weather, ski reports, and a "heating and cooling degree database". This Weather Underground also includes WXP so that X-windows users can have available weather maps displayed on their terminals. Comments and suggestions to root@wind.atmos.uah.edu. wmaps.aoc.nrao.edu [146.88.1.103] (FTP) Mirror site for vmd.cso.uiuc.edu in pub/wx. wuarchive.wustl.edu [128.252.135.4] (FTP) Mirror site for vmd.cso.uiuc.edu in multimedia/images/wx. www.acm.uiuc.edu (WWW) Rob's Multimedia Lab has a weather page at weather.html. Movies of hurricane Emily, California fires images, local (mid-Atlantic) weather from other sites. www.atmos.uiuc.edu (WWW) The Daily Planet from the University of Illinois. Contains links to the U of I Weather Machine (gopher) as well as direct links to many of the same images: satellite images, surface and upper air, forecast model output, etc. This server also includes a very nice and comprehensive collection of MPEG movies based on the still images. They are updated hourly and they cover various time durations of up to over two days. Other available information includes a collection of lists of other weather servers and sources of weather data, atmospheric sciences community info, local information about the U of I atmospheric sciences department, and some online hypermedia instructional modules for atmospheric sciences. The administrative contact e-mail address for the server is: web-masters@www.atmos.uiuc.edu www.jpl.nasa.gov (WWW) JPL site. From the home page, choose "Recent News from JPL", or go directly to sircxsar.html for images from the Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR), which flew on space shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-59 April 9-20, 1994. SIR-C/X-SAR uses a highly sophisticated imaging radar to capture images of Earth that are useful to scientists across a great range of disciplines. The instrument is scheduled for a second flight on shuttle mission STS-68 in August 1994. www.met.fu-berlin.de (WWW) Free University of Berlin Institute for Meteorology. Information is available in German or English. Includes local current weather, latest Meteosat photo, list of upcoming conferences, neatly-formatted and organized list of these weather resources. Best place to begin for English-speakers is http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/english/Wetter/index.html. www.ngdc.noaa.gov [192.149.148.109] (WWW, Gopher, FTP) This site serves information about NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center. There are links to many NOAA data archives, including the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP), Solar-Terrestrial Data from the World Data Center exchange program, Marine Geological & Geophysical Data, Solid Earth Geophysical Data, and Paleoclimatology Data. This site can also be accessed using Gopher or FTP. www.rsmas.miami.edu (WWW) The Remote Sensing Group in the Division of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography of the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science is actively engaged in satellite remote sensing of the earth's oceans. Low resolution visible and infrared imagery is collected daily from the NOAA sun-synchronous polar orbiting satellites. Low resolution observations (4 km.) are collected globally while high resolution observations (1 km.) are collected from selected areas of research interest around the globe. Home page is at home.html, images at images.html. www.sat.dundee.ac.uk see ftp.sat.dundee.ac.uk www.sel.bldrdoc.gov (WWW) NOAA's Space Environment Laboratory (SEL) server has information about the Sun and the environment between the Sun and the Earth, including "space weather" and solar images. www.service.uit.no Some meteorological and magnetometer data for Adventdalen, Norway, is available from http://www.service.uit.no/geofysisk/geofysisk.html. www.ucar.edu (WWW) National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) http server (start at metapage.html). Select "Research Data Archive" to access the data archive; also contains other information about NCAR. Questions should be sent to gregmc@ncar.ucar.edu. www.mit.edu 8001 (WWW) Neat map interface to (text) weather reports and forecasts. Map shows current conditions. Appears to be western US only. wx.atmos.uiuc.edu [128.174.80.10] (Gopher) (UofI Weather Machine) Forecasts, images, surface and upper-air weather, local (Illinois) weather, and various useful documents, including GRIB and ON84 format descriptions, station lists, graphics information, etc. Questions, comments, and requests for changes should be sent to gopher@wx.atmos.uiuc.edu. wx.research.att.com [192.20.225.3] (FTP) Mirror site for vmd.cso.uiuc.edu in wx directory. --------------- Subject: How to use the data retrieval methods This section only describes FTP and telnet in any detail; for other methods, FTP sites are given, so you can get information on them yourself. 1) How to use FTP 2) How to use telnet 3) Gopher information 4) Wais information 5) WWW information 1. How to use FTP FTP (File Transfer Protocol) allows transfer of files between two computers which are on the Internet. To access the FTP areas listed here, at your system prompt type "ftp" followed by the name of the desired system. For example, to access ncardata.ucar.edu you'd type ftp ncardata.ucar.edu Use "anonymous" as your login and your email address as the password (if requested). [Note: quotes ("like this") are used to set off names of directories and files, or commands you'd type, and are not part of these names.] Not all FTP systems accept the same commands, but here's a list of the most useful: ls list files in the current directory. cd change directory, e.g. "cd wx" changes to the wx directory. binary sets binary mode ascii sets ascii mode (the default). Use for retrieving text. get retrieves a file, e.g. "get readme" gets a file called readme. bye exits FTP. If you can't seem to connect to the site, check to see if it is a telnet site. If it is, follow the instructions in the following section instead. If you can't FTP from your site, use one of the following ftp-by-mail servers: ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com ftpmail@src.doc.ic.ac.uk ftpmail@cs.uow.edu.au ftpmail@grasp.insa-lyon.fr Send an e-mail message to the closest address, with the lines: reply your_address@some.where <- with your email address connect ncardata.ucar.edu <- for example cd datasets/ds111.2/software get access_sun.f quit For complete instructions, send a one-line message reading "help" to the server. Please don't ask me for help! 2. How to use telnet Type "telnet" followed by the name or IP number of the desired system. These publicly accessible systems generally allow you to log in but put you in a restricted shell, from which only a certain menu of commands is available. The description for the site will include the login to use. If you can't seem to connect to the site, re-check its description in the document; if it's an FTP site, follow the instructions in the previous section instead. 3. Gopher information Available by ftp at ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/gopher-faq. 4. Wais information Available by ftp at ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/wais-faq/getting-started. 5. WWW information Available by ftp at ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/www/faq. WWW is so easy to use that you might as well just hop in and try it, so ask your sysadmin if you have a WWW browser such as NCSA Mosaic. ----- Archive-name: weather/data/part2 Last-modified: 5 Jul 1994 Recent changes: ==within last two weeks== ==within last four weeks== Added Global Daily Summary (GDS) disc from NCDC Replaced (CZCS) Phytoplankton Pigment disc from JPL info with updated listing for AVHRR MCSST and CZCS phytoplankton pigment disc Added TOPEX/Poseidon altimeter disc from JPL Added TOGA related satellite and in-situ data disc from JPL Added Software atlas/plotting tool diskettes from JPL This is a guide to sources of meteorological, oceanographic, and geophysical data which can be obtained via tape, CD-ROM, and other media. Contents: 1) Overview 2) How to get a current copy of this document 3) CD-ROM source list 4) Data centers Each (major) section has a "Subject:" line, so you can search on the subject title above to find the section quickly. --------------- Subject: Overview This is part 2 of a guide to various sources of meteorological, oceanographic, and geophysical data. Some of these data sets are intended for enjoyment or hobbyist use; other data are more research-oriented. Much of the research data is not free and is not directly available over the network; usually, only information about this data is available, and you must place an order for the actual data. The contents of this series of FAQs are: Part 1: Meteorological data available via the Internet Part 2: Meteorological data available via tape, CD-ROM, and other media The section on mailing lists which used to be included in this FAQ is now a separate FAQ, "Mailing lists and newsgroups for meteorology". This article is copyright (c) 1993 by Ilana Stern. It may be freely distributed for non-commercial purposes only, provided that this copyright notice and the instructions on retrieving a current copy are not removed. The information in this article is provided as-is, with no warranties or assurances as to its accuracy. I prefer that archives maintain current copies, since this information changes rapidly. If you would like to put this article in an archive and want to receive a new copy automatically at every update, please send me email. Corrections, additions, and comments should be sent to Ilana Stern at ilana@ncar.ucar.edu. Please include in your message where you read this document. Note that if I know about it, it's in this document. --------------- Subject: How to get a current copy of this document If you are reading this document after 26 Jul 1994, you are reading an outdated copy. A current copy can be obtained by anonymous FTP to rtfm.mit.edu, from the file weather/data/part2 in the directory /pub/usenet/news.answers. These files are updated every two weeks, when a new copy is posted to sci.geo.meteorology, news.answers, and sci.answers. This document also appears on the mailing lists CLIMLIST and met-stud, which are described in the FAQ, "Mailing Lists for Meteorology". If you can't use FTP, send email to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with send /pub/usenet/news.answers/weather/data/part2 as the only text in the message (leave the subject blank). --------------- Subject: CD-ROM source list 1) Basic information 2) List of CD-ROMs by topic, with summaries A) Weather data B) Research data C) Miscellaneous 1. Basic information CD-ROMs tend to be relatively expensive, but can hold as much as 600 megabytes of data. Prices are current as of October 1991; prices for some discs are not known. Some discs are provided with driving software. Most of the software is for IBM-PC or compatible systems, but some is available for the Macintosh, and, increasingly, for Unix systems. Some of these listings are not for CD-ROMs, but are for floppies or tapes. These are listed here, rather than in the section on data available on other media, because they have been prepared as a package. The research data available on tape is generally copied from a computer archive as requests come in. Commercial sources are flagged as such. Inclusion of a commercial source in this listing does not imply endorsement. 2. List of CD-ROMs by topic, with summaries A. Weather data Climate Change Data ($950, or 595 pounds sterling from UK source): Monthly 5-degree surface temperature anomaly grids 1854-1990, pressure grids 1873-1990. Monthly world temperature data at about 3500 stations and precipitation data at about 6500 stations, for period of record (long). Retrieval and mapping software included, available for various systems. Contact: Dr. Phil Jones, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ United Kingdom. Distributed in North America by Chadwyck-Healey Inc.,1101 King St, Alexandria, VA 22314. 800/752-0515. World Weather Disc ($295): Monthly temp, precip, pressure, sunshine data for about 2000 world stations for period of record. Daily weather data at hundreds of US stations. Data for some stations on temp, precip, freeze, drought, soil moisture, wind, storms. Frequency and movement of tropical cyclones. Contact: Cliff Mass, Dept. of Atmos. Sci. (AK40), University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195. 206/685-0910. National Climate Info System Volume 1 ($50): Monthly temperature, precipitation, Palmer Hydrological Drought Index for 344 climate divisions of US. Data can be viewed in tabular or graphical format. The disc covers the period 1895-1989 and contains 1032 time-series graphs, 4180 maps, and 5400 frames of video animation. Contact: National Climatic Data Center, Federal Building, Asheville, NC 28801. 704/271-4800, email orders@ncdc.noaa.gov. SAMSON (Solar and Meteorological Surface Observational Network) (3 disks, $100 each): The three CD-ROMs are divided geographically into regions: eastern, central, and western U.S., and contain hourly solar radiation data along with selected meteorological elements for the period 1961-1990. It encompasses 237 NWS stations in the United States, and also includes Guam and Puerto Rico. The dataset includes both observational and modelled data. The hourly solar elements are: Extraterrestrial horizontal and extraterrestrial direct normal radiation; global, diffuse, and direct normal radiation. Meteorological elements are: Total and opaque sky cover, temperature and dew point, relative humidity, pressure, wind direction and speed, visibility, ceiling height, present weather, precipitable water, aerosol optical depth, snow depth, days since last snowfall, and hourly precipitation. Contact: National Climatic Data Center, see above. CLIVUE CD-ROM ($50): The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) developed a CD-ROM in support of a museum exhibit which traveled across the U.S. The CD contains a 1,500-station subset of NCDC's nearly 8,000 U.S. daily cooperative stations. The user selects a date and area of the U.S. and the CD-ROM database is queried for stations within the specified domain having data. Then, the system displays daily maximum and minimum temperatures, precipitation, and snowfall for the site. Graphs showing 7 years, 21 years, and the full period of record (varies by station) for the station(s) are available. Visual displays allow users to view trends, variability, and extremes. Contact: National Climatic Data Center, see above. International Station Meteorological Climate Summary (ISMCS) 2.0 ($50) This CD released in August 1992 gives detailed climatological summaries for about 980 locations worldwide. These locations include National Weather Service locations, domestic and overseas Navy and Air Force sites, and selected foreign stations. Limited summaries are also given for an additional almost 5,000 worldwide sites. Tabular or statistical data can be exported to a printer or spreadsheet. Also supports limited mouse capability. Contact: National Climatic Data Center, see above. U.S. Navy Marine Climatic Atlas of the World Ver 1.0 ($50): This CD-ROM includes analysis and display software for climatological averages of atmospheric and oceanographic data. The data are summarized with user-defined 1 and 5 degree grid areas covering the global marine environment. The summaries are produced using predominately ship data collected between 1854-1969. The major elements include air and sea temperature, dewpoint temperature, scalar wind speed, sea- level pressure, wave height, wind and ocean- current roses. This CD also allows the user to define element intervals (e.g. 5 to 10 knots, 2 degree temperature intervals). Contouring for explicitly user-defined regions and exporting data to a printer or diskette are supported. Contact: National Climatic Data Center, see above. Meteosat Images on CD-ROM, 1986 to 1991 (price on request): One full-disk infra-red image per day (usually at 12h00 UTC), one visible image on day 1 of each month (at the same time as the infra-red image), one water-vapour image on day 1 of each month of 1991 (at the same time as the infra-red and visible image). Images of the snow storm over the East coast of the USA on 12&13 March 1993 (from meteosat-3 at 75 degrees East). Images of Kuwait during the Gulf war. Full-disk Images taken by Meteosat-3 at 75 degrees East at the beginning of March 1993. Contact: J. Le Ber, Meteosat Data Service, European Space Agency, Robert Bosch Str. 5, D6100 DARMSTADT GERMANY High Resolution Climatology ($199/variable): *COMMERCIAL* (Floppy disk) Average monthly climatological values of maximum temperature, minimum temperature, and precipitation for every 1 square km of the conterminous US for the 30-year periods 1951-1980 and 1961-1990. The data are stored as a rectangular matrix for each state. Digitized state and county political boundaries are included and referenced to the climate data sets. The data are in raster form as ASCII or 16-bit binary integers. This dataset is distributed on 5.25" or 3.5" floppy disks. Contact: ZedX, Inc., P.O. Box 404, Boalsburg, PA 16827-0404. 814/466-2025. US Summary of Day (4 disks, prices vary): *COMMERCIAL* NCDC Summary of Day data, USGS streamflow data, retrieval and analysis software. Contact: Hydrosphere, Inc., 1002 Walnut, Suite 200, Boulder, CO 80302 800/949-4937, 303/443-7839 B. Research data NMC gridpoint dataset ($150): Twice daily grids for the Northern Hemisphere at a resolution of about 381 km. Contact: National Center for Atmospheric Research, PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307. 303/497-1219, email datahelp@ncar.ucar.edu. National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) discs: Various discs available, including: Gulf of Mexico GLORIA data, Geophysics of North America, global ecosystems, global topography, gravity data, solar activity, and more. A catalog and price list are available via gopher or ftp (see part 1). Contact: NGDC, 325 Broadway E/GC4, Dept. 894, Boulder, CO 80303. 303/497-6958, email info@ngdc.noaa.gov. Global Ocean Temperature and Salinity (2 discs, $80 each or $124/both) Temperature and salinity in the world ocean for about 1900-1990, based on all available XBTs, MBTs, BTs, etc. Contact: National Oceanographic Data Center, NOAA/NESDIS E/OC21, Washington, DC 20235. 202/606-4549. Global Upper Air Climatic Atlas (GUACA) ($200): This two-volume CD-ROM set uses a 12-year (1980-1991) 2.5 degree upper air data base obtained from the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). This CD presents upper air statistics for 15 vertical levels in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere for dry bulb and dewpoint temperature, geopotential height, air density, and vector and scalar wind speed. The disc provides access/display software for gridpoint data, contouring capability for user-defined areas, and vertical profiles. The climatology covers the 12-year period as well as individual year-months. Contact: National Climatic Data Center, Federal Building, Asheville, NC 28801. 704/271-4800, email orders@ncdc.noaa.gov. Radiosonde Data of North America 1946-1992. ($400): Contains all available radiosonde data for North America (U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Caribbean Islands) through the 100-mb level on four disks. Disk periods are 1946-1965, 1966-1979, 1980-1989, and 1990-1992. Data includes significant, mandatory, and special wind levels for all observation times and includes geopotential height, temperature, dew point and wind direction, and scalar speed. The user can select for output to printer, screen, or file, a single station or multiple stations for a defined time period, or all stations within a specified geographic region in either synoptic or station sort. The CD also contains available station metadata. Contact: National Climatic Data Center, see above. Global Tropical and Extratropical Cyclone Climatic Atlas (GTECCA) ($100): This CD-ROM contains all global historic tropical storm track data available for five tropical storm basins. Periods of record varies for each basin, with the beginning as early as the 1870s and with 1992 at the latest year. Northern hemispheric extratropical storm track data will be included from 1965 to 1992. Tropical track data includes time, position, storm stage (maximum wind, central pressure when available). The user can display tracks, track data for any basin or user-selected geographic area, or tracks passing within a user-defined radius of any point. Narratives for all tropical storms for the 1980-1992 period will be included as well as basin-wide tropical storm climatological statistics. Contact: National Climatic Data Center, see above. Global Daily Summary (GDS) ($100): This CD-ROM provides access to a 10,000-station set of daily maximum/minimum temperature, daily precipitation, and 3-hourly present weather for the 1977-1991 period of record. Data can be selected for viewing or output to file for geographic areas or by a predefined user-selected list of stations. The dataset includes element flags for suspected erroneous data. A data inventory contains station name, latitude/longitude, elevation, period of record, and the number of observations of available data. Requires a bare minimum of 4 MB of RAM, with 8MB of RAM recommended for superior performance. Contact: National Climatic Data Center, see above. GALE and ERICA datasets (2 discs, price not known): GALE (Genesis of Atlantic Lows), 1/15/86-4/15/86: ship data, raobs, aircraft, radar, etc off N Carolina coast. ERICA (Experiment on Rapidly Intensifying Cyclones over the Atlantic), 12/1/88-2/26/89: rawinsondes, aircraft, radar, buoys, satellite data, etc. Contact: C. Kreitzberg, Dept. of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104. NOTE: T. Thornton got no reply from this address, it may not still be valid (9/93). GEDEX (Greenhouse Effect Detection Experiment)(price not known): Two discs containing surface, upper air, and/or satellite-derived measurements of temperature, solar irradiance, clouds, greenhouse gases, fluxes, albedo, aerosols, ozone, and water vapor, along with Southern Oscillation Indices and Quasi-Biennial Oscillation statistics. Many of the data sets provide global coverage. The spatial resolutions vary from zonal to 2.5 degree grids. Some surface station data sets span more than 100 years; most satellite-derived sets cover only the past 12 years. Temporal coverage is monthly for most sets. An update will be available by June 1992. Contact: NCDS/Goddard Distributed Active Archive Center, Code 935, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771. 301/286-3209, email NCDSUSO@NSSDCA.GSFC.NASA.GOV. A more complete description of these discs may be obtained from the ncardata.ucar.edu FTP site, in the file "catalogs/nondss/gedex". HCDN (Hydro-climatic data network) streamflow dataset (price not known): Contains dataset, search software, and USGS Open-File Report 92-129 (Slack, J.R., and Landwehr, J.M., 1992, Hydro-climatic data network (HCDN): A U.S. Geological Survey streamflow data set for the United States for the study of climate variations, 1874-1988). Contact: USGS, National Water Data Exchange (NAWDEX), MS 421 - National Center, Reston VA 22092. The principal author of this dataset, James R. Slack, can be reached via email at jrslack@qvarsa.er.usgs.gov. The information on the CD-ROM is also available via anonymous FTP from srv1rvares.er.usgs.gov in the directory "hcdn92". DMSP SSM/I Brightness Temperature Grids for the Polar Regions, volume 1-18, 9 July 1987 - 31 December 1991 (Price on request): Each volume contains 3 months of daily polar brightness temperature grids from SSM/I flying on DMSP F8 platform. Passive microwave brightness temperatures (7 dual-polarized frequencies ranging from 19.3 to 85.5 GHz.) used primarily to derive sea ice concentration; coverage is north and south polar regions. NSIDC will process and distribute similar product for SSM/I data from DMSP F11 in the near future. Data format: 16-bit raster images (2-byte integers), in "SSM/I grid format". Associated software: Extraction and ice concentration software, IMDISP image display program for IBM PC, IMAGIC image display program for the Macintosh II. Software distributed on diskettes, with user's guide. Contact: World Data Center A for Glaciology [Snow and Ice], National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, CIRES - Campus Box 449, Boulder, CO 80309. 303/492-2366, FAX 303/492-2468, email nsidc@kryos.colorado.edu Omnet: NSIDC (Claire Hanson). DMSP SSM/I Ice Concentration Grids for the Polar Regions, Volume 1: 9 July 1987 - 31 December 1989; Vol 2: 1 January 1990 to 31 December 1991: (Price on request) Contains sea ice concentration derived from SSM/I brightness temperatures, using NASA Team algorithm and J. Comiso algorithm, for Northern and Southern Hemispheres. DMSP F11 SSM/I ice concentrations will be processed and distributed by NSIDC in the near future. Data format: 8-bit raster images (1-byte integers) in "SSM/I grid format". Grid files have HDF (Hierarchical Data Format) header labels. Associated software: Source code used to derive ice concentration from brightness temperatures. IMDISP image display software. Software distributed on diskettes. NCSA software that reads HDF-labelled data is available via ftp from NCSA. Contact: World Data Center A for Glaciology, information above. Nimbus-7 SMMR Polar Radiances, Volumes 1-12, 25 October 1978 - 20 August 1987 (life of SMMR sensor) (Price on request): Contains passive microwave brightness temperatures (5 dual-polarized frequencies ranging from 6.6 to 37 GHz) and derived sea ice concentration for the north and south polar regions. Data format: 2-byte integers, in single-frequency grids. Associated software: IMDISP image display program (C code) for IBM PC; landmask and latitude/longitude overlay (Fortran). Software distributed on IBM PC diskettes. Contact: World Data Center A for Glaciology, information above. Historical Arctic Rawinsonde Archive on CD-ROM (3 volumes, price on request): The Historical Arctic Rawisonde Archive on CD-ROM, volumes 1-3, contains over 1.2 million vertical soundings of temperature, pressure, humidity, and wind, representing all available rawisonde ascents from Arctic land stations poleward of 65 degrees North through 1987. (Data for 1988-1990, and monthly averaged data, will be prepared for CD-ROM volume 4 in the near future.) For most stations the record begins in 1958, a few begin in 1947 or 1948. The data are one file per year per station. Coverage is relatively uniform, except in the interior of Greenland. Typically 20-40 levels are available in each sounding. Software: Documentation is provided on the CD-ROM volumes, and in hard copy (NSIDC Special Report 2, 1992). Software (Fortran and C) is provided on the CD-ROM volumes to retrieve a subset of the sounding data. Reference: Kahl, J.D., M.C. Serreze, S. Shiotani, S.M. Skony, and R.C. Schnell, In situ meteorological sounding archives for arctic studies, Bul. Amer. Met. Soc., 73(11), 1824-1830, 1992. Contact: World Data Center A for Glaciology, information above. Eastern Arctic Ice, Ocean and Atmosphere Data, Volume 1, CEAREX-1 ($50): Contains sea ice acceleration, deformation and stress; hydrography (CTDs); meteorology; bathymetry; acoustics and ambient noise (sample data) from Coordinated Eastern Arctic Experiment (CEAREX). Includes meteorology from Marginal Ice Zone Experiment (MIZEX), 1983, 1984, 1987. Experiment location: Arctic Ocean north of Svalbard; Fram Strait, September 1988 - May 1989. Amount of data: 460 mbytes. Data format: ASCII files. Associated software: none. Additional volumes are planned; content not yet determined. Contact: World Data Center A for Glaciology, information above. NWS/NOHRSC snow cover data ($50 each year): Airborne snow water equivalent and satellite areal extent of snow cover data for 1990-1993 are now available on CD-ROM for major portions of the U.S., Alaska, and Canada. The CD-ROMs include: (1) airborne snow water equivalent data and the digitized flight line network, (2) calibrated AVHRR and GOES satellite data used to map snow cover, (3) the classified snow cover images (4) national and regional snow cover image products, and (5) ancillary data sets including digital elevation data, digitized NWS basin boundaries, and the alphanumeric results of the satellite snow cover mapping by basin and by elevation zone. Contact: CD-ROM Snow Cover Data, National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center (NOHRSC), Office of Hydrology, National Weather Service, 6301 34th Avenue South: Room 112, Minneapolis, MN 55450-2985. 612/725-3258, FAX 612/725-3338, email tim@snow.nohrsc.nws.gov (Tim Szeliga) STORM-FEST data (3 discs, price unknown): Data from the STORM-FEST experiment -- surface observations and rawinsonde, satellite, radar, NOWRAD, and profiler data -- plus Zeb software for viewing the data. Contact Steve Williams, sfw@ncar.ucar.edu. AVHRR monthly global MCSST / CZCS data (5 discs, price on request) The AVHRR MCSST and CZCS phytoplankton pigment concentration data set contains monthly averaged sea-surface temperatures (day and night) derived from NOAA satellite AVHRR which are temporally and spatially coregistered with phytoplankton pigment concentration data acquired from the CZCS instrument on Nimbus-7. The CZCS data cover 1978-1986 and AVHRR data cover the period from 1981-1986, giving 5 years of coregistered data. Contact: PO.DAAC at JPL. Contact the User Services Office at podaac@podaac.jpl.nasa.gov for more details. TOPEX/Poseidon altimeter merged geophysical data record (Price on request) Global coverage data from the TOPEX/POSEIDON mission from both the U.S. and French altimeters with high precision orbits and environmental corrections. The data are distributed on CD-ROMs (ISO 9660) and in an integer format usable on VAX, UNIX, PCs, and Macs. Each CD-ROM contains two ten-day cycles of data, precision orbit, and cross-over files for each cycle and read software for VAX and UNIX. As of May '94 cycles 1-52 exist on CD-ROM. Contact: PO.DAAC, information above. TOGA related satellite and in-situ data CD-ROM '85-'90. (Price on request). PO.DAAC has produced a set of seven CD-ROMs which contain satellite, in-situ, and model derived data pertaining to atmospheric and oceanographic parameters. Parameters include ocean currents, sea-surface temperature and salinity, air temperature and pressure, cloud, and precipitation. Software will be included. The data have been provided by agencies worldwide. (Available in June '94.) Contact: PO.DAAC, information above. Software atlas and plotting tool for oceanographic sections (diskettes) ATLAST, a PC software atlas and plotting tool for oceanographic sections (Rhines) OCEANATLAS, a Macintosh software atlas and plotting tool for oceanographic sections (Swift et al.) are available on diskettes. Contact: PO.DAAC, information above. TOGA/COARE GMS-4 images (2 discs, $75 for the set): GMS-4 images during the TOGA/COARE Intensive Observation Period (November 1992 to March 1993) regridded over 135E - 175E, 10S - 10N, 5km square pixel size. 1910 infrared and 877 visible images of albedo and brightness temperature with overlays of the geographic grid and the positions of moorings and ships. Images are in compressed PostScript format but tools are included to uncompress and convert the data into other formats. Contact: Satellite Oceanography Laboratory, University of Hawaii, 1000 Pope Road, Honolulu, HI 96822. The check should be made to the order of "RCUH". Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) Global Datasets (price not known): Contains Version 1.1 SRB shortwave products for the period March 1985 through December 1988 as produced by the World Climate Research Programme's (WCRP) SRB Satellite Data Analysis Center (SDAC). Inputs to the Version 1.1 product are results from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) and the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE). SDAC uses two methods (known as the Pinker and Staylor algorithms) to estimate surface downward and net irradiances, surface albedo, downward direct/diffuse ratio, surface cloud forcing, and daylight cloud fraction. In addition, various other radiation, cloud, meteorological and diagnostic parameters are provided to aid the user in understanding variations in the SRB parameters. The SRB CD-ROM has been formatted and produced to work with IBM PCs, Apple Macintoshes and Unix systems with ISO-9660 CD-ROM driver support. In addition, read and display software for IBM PCs and Apple Macintoshes are available upon request. Contact: Langley DAAC User Services, MS 157B, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, 23681-0001. (804)864-8656, userserv@eosdis.larc.nasa.gov United Kindom Digital Marine Atlas V2.0 (UKP56.40): (Floppy disk) This is an IBM compatibile PC based Marine Atlas covering the Northeast Atlantic and mainly centered on the British Isles. It comes on five 1.4MB floppies and runs under DOS (V3.0 or higher). It has several sections covering areas such as general Bathymetry, Marine Geology, Marine and Coastal Nature Conservation in Breat Britain, Marine Biology, Physical Oceanography, Marine Chemistry, Fisheries and the BODC data catalogues amongst others. Contact: UKDMAP Project Manager, British Oceanographic Data Centre, Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Bidston Observatory, BIRKENHEAD, Merseyside L43 7RA United Kingdom. +44 51 653 8633, Fax: +44 51 652 3950. C. Miscellaneous NASA discs: Various discs available, including: Voyager spacecraft images (12 discs, under $20 each!), Viking images of Mars, Magellan Venus data, Halley's comet data (25 discs), excerpts from astronomical catalogs, and more. Contact: NSSDC (NASA Space Science Data Center), Code 933.4, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771. 301/286-6695. They also publish a free newsletter. CD-ROM, INC: *COMMERCIAL* Several hundred discs available, including: "GRIPS 2" high resolution images of topography, Landsat, vegetation maps, plus software ($49), "JEDI" 3 discs full of earth, space, and sea science data intended for school use ($31), 13 business/economic discs, >50 literature and entertainment discs, >40 health-related discs, many science discs. Prices range from $29-$895. Free catalog available from them. Contact: CD-ROM, Inc, 1667 Cole Blvd. Suite 400, Golden, CO 80401. 303/526-7600, FAX 303/231-9581. Digital Chart of the World ($200): The Digital Chart of the World (DCW) is a comprehensive 1:1,000,000-scale vector basemap of the world containing cartographic, attribute, and textual data. It is provided with software that permits the database to be accessed, queried, and displayed on PC-class computers. The primary source for the database is the U.S. Defense Mapping Agency (DMA) Operational Navigation Chart (ONC) series. There are 4 discs: (1)North America, (2)Europe/Northern Asia, (3)South American/Africa/Antarctica, and (4)Southern Asia/Australia. The data are organized into 17 thematic coverages, including political boundaries and ocean coast lines, cities, transportation networks, drainage, land cover, and elevation contours. Contact: USGS Open File Section, Box 25286, Denver, CO 80225. 303/236-7476. --------------- Subject: Data Centers These sites maintain data archives for use by scientists. Usually, researchers affiliated with a data center can use the data on-site for free, but other researchers who require tapes or other media must pay a small charge for data transfer. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC): Research and distribution center for data related to carbon dioxide, methane, and other trace gas emissions; the carbon cycle; and other climate-change topics. You can access catalog information by FTP (see part 1). Datasets are available on various media including CD-ROM and magnetic tape. They also publish a free newsletter. Contact: CDIAC, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P. O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6335. 615/574-0390, FAX 615/574-2232, email cdp@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov. Langley Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC): Archive and distribution center for radiation budget, cloud, aerosol, and tropospheric chemistry data. You can access catalog information by telnet (see part 1). Data are available via FTP, tape and CD-ROM. Contact: Langley DAAC, NASA Langley Research Center, MS 157B, Hampton, VA 23681-0001 804/864-8656, FAX 804/864-8807, email userserv@eosdis.larc.nasa.gov. NASA Space Science Data Center (NSSDC): Astronomical and atmospheric data. You can access catalog information by FTP or telnet (see part 1). Contact: NSSDC, Code 933.4, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771. 301/286-6695. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR): Over 400 datasets available to the research community on various media. You can access catalog information by FTP (see part 1). Contact: NCAR Data Support Section, PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307. 303/497-1219, FAX 303/497-1137, email datahelp@ncar.ucar.edu. (DISCLAIMER: NCAR is a non-profit government organization operated by UCAR under a grant from the NSF. Our charges reflect the actual cost of data retrieval and magnetic media. I receive no benefit from you ordering data. Please, research-related inquiries only.) National Climatic Data Center (NCDC): NCDC, Federal Building, Asheville, NC 28801. 704/271-4800, FAX 704/271-4876, email orders@ncdc.noaa.gov. National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC): NGDC, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80303. 303/497-6958, info@ngdc.noaa.gov. United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)/Global Resource Information Database (GRID): Digital environmental data and information related to the Earth's surface, oceans and atmosphere, free of charge to non-commercial users. Typical global data sets include elevation, hydrology, soils, life zones, vegetation, wetlands, climate, natural/physical boundaries, earthquake hazards, vegetation index (NOAA/GVI), human population etc. For a free catalog of global datasets, contact: Facility Manager, UNEP/GRID-Geneva, 6 rue de la Gabelle, CH-1227 Carouge, Geneva SWITZERLAND. (0041-22) 343-8660, FAX (0041-22) 343-8862, email POSTMAN@grid.unige.ch or POSTMAN@CGEGRD11.BITNET. For a free catalog of datasets for Africa and Latin America, contact: Facility Manager, UNEP/GRID-Nairobi, P. O. Box 30552, Nairobi, KENYA. (00254-2) 230-800, FAX (00254-2) 226-491. .