- AMIP SST and sea-ice dataset
- Monthly and seasonal temperature anomaly data
- Levitus annual and monthly SST climatology
- Grid size: 1x1
- Comments: Details available.
- Data: annual,
Jan.,
Feb.,
Mar.,
Apr.,
May,
Jun.,
Jul.,
Aug.,
Sep.,
Oct.,
Nov., and
Dec.
- Reference:
- Location: National Geophysical Data Center
- Present annual average global vegetation
- GISS
global distribution of vegetation
-
GISS normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI)
- Grid size: 1x1
- Comments: 12 files from Jul. 1983 to Jun. 1984
- Data:
Jul. 83,
Aug. 83,
Sep. 83,
Oct. 83,
Nov. 83,
Dec. 83,
Jan. 84A>,
Feb. 84,
Mar. 84,
Apr. 84,
May 84,
Jun. 84
- Reference:
Fung et al. (1987)
- Location: GISS
- ice age paleotopography at 1K intervals
- Grid size: 1x1
- Comments: Details
available. Also available as single tarred files, but these were written in binary form
on an SGI and may not translate easily to other architectures. The following individual
files were written in an "asciispecial" form amenable to importation into SpyGlass and
other utilities. There are two sets of files, one containing elevations and the other
0s and 1s to indicate the absence or presence of ice. I've written an
ice file conversion program to convert
them into a chosen format as well as an
ice file interpolation program to reduce them
from 360x180 to a chosen resolution. There's nothing yet for the elevation files.
- Data: Elevation files;
Present,
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15,
16,
17,
18,
19,
20, and
21 KBP
and ice files; Present,
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15,
16,
17,
18,
19,
20, and
21 KBP
- Reference:
Peltier (1994)
- Location: National Geophysical Data Center (NOAA)
- Note: The
Global Change Research
Program of the
USGS has
color images of these files available.
- Monthly wind stress fields
- Grid size: 1x1
- Comments: Details available.
- Data: Jan.,
Feb.,
Mar.,
Apr.,
May,
Jun.,
Jul.,
Aug.,
Sep.,
Oct.,
Nov., and
Dec.
- Reference:
Hellerman and Rosenstein (1983)
- Location: NCAR
-
ISCCP Cloud-Related Data
-
C2 Monthly Means and Climatology
- Monthly mean data from July 1983 through June 1991 as well
as 8-year mean monthly, seasonal, and annual maps. The variables
available are cloud amount, cloud top temperature, cloud top
pressure, cloud optical depth, surface temperature, and surface
reflectance. An interactive forms-based menu allows the data to
be retrieved in a choice of formats as well as in image form.
-
D2 Monthly Means and Climatology
- This differs from C2 in that different data processing algorithsm
were used which gave a broader range of variable information.
Monthly mean data from January 1989 through December 1992.
The variables available are total cloud amount, low cloud amount,
middle cloud amount, high cloud amount, daytime low liquid cloud
amount, daytime low ice cloud amount, daytime middle liquid cloud
amount, daytime middle ice cloud amount, daytime cumulus cloud
amount, daytime stratocumulus cloud amount, daytime stratus cloud
amount, daytime altocumulus cloud amount, daytime altostratus
cloud amount, daytime nimbostratus cloud amount, daytime cirrus
cloud amount, daytime cirrostratus cloud amount, daytime deep
convective cloud amount, cloud top temperature, cloud top pressure,
cloud optical depth, surface temperature, and surface reflectance.
Fields are available in several gridded formats as well as in
GIF image format.
CLIMAP boundary conditions for 18 kbp,
2x2 grid.
These are the files created by the CLIMAP Project whose goal it
was to recreate the boundary conditions at 18 KBP. Additionally,
the same types of boundary conditions for the present were
created to facilitate comparisons.
- The details
- The general information and translation key file.
- Present data
- The compressed (in gzip format) files containing the boundary
conditions for the present.
- 18 KBP data
- The compressed (in gzip format) files containing the boundary
conditions for the last glacial maximum.
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