Connections within the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Professional Organizations
American Geophysical Union
(AGU), an organization of U.S. scientists of Earth and space
sciences.
American
Meteorological Society (AMS), an organization of U.S. meteorologists
and scientist of related fields.
European Geophysical Union
(EGU), an organization of European Earth and space sciences.
Data that I Use
Satellite data Advanced Microwave
Scanning Radiometer-Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) | CloudSat |
International Satellite
Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) at NASA Goddard Institute for Space
Studies (GISS) | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)
Climate data Goddard Satellite-based Surface Turbulent Fluxes (GSSTF)
by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) | Hamburg Ocean Atmosphere
Parameters from Satellite Data (HOAPS) | Japanese Ocean
Flux Data sets with Use of Remote Sensing Observations (J-OFURO) by Tokai University | Objectively Analyzed Air-Sea
Fluxes (OAFlux) by Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) | SeaFlux global data
set by WHOI
Reanalyses Climate Forecast System
Reanalysis (CFSR) by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction at National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) National Weather Service | European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
reanalyses | Modern Era
Retrospective-Analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA) by the Goddard Modeling and
Assimilation Office (GMAO) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
Data Centers
Earth System
Research Laboratory (ESRL) Physical Sciences Division Climate and Weather
Data Archive within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Goddard Earth
Sciences Data and Information Science Center (GES DISC) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
Global Land Cover
Facility at the University of Maryland-College Park
National Snow and Ice Data
Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado-Boulder's Cooperative Institute for
Research in Environmental Sciences
Physical
Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) at NASA/CalTech Jet Propulsion Laboratory
(JPL)
Research Data
Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
Models that I Use
Community Earth
System Model (CESM), a global Earth system model by the National Center for Atmospheric
Research (NCAR)
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) model at the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Goddard Institute
for Space Studies (GISS) ModelE at
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
Hadley Centre Global Environmental Model
(HadGEM) by the UK Met Office
Regional
Arctic System Model, a collaborative effort lead by the Naval Postgraduate School Department of Oceanography
Modeling Centers
European Centre for
Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, a pan-European numerical weather
prediction (NWP) modeling center.
Geophysical Fluid
Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
lab.
Global Modeling and
Assimilation Office (GMAO) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
National Center for
Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Earth System Laboratory (NESL)
National Centers for
Environmental Prediction (NCEP) at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Service
Useful Applications
National Center for
Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Command Language (NCL), an interpreted
language for data analysis and visualization in the atmospheric and related
sciences by the Computational Information Systems Laboratory at NCAR.
NCAR Graphics,
packages for data visualization for C and Fortran by the Computational Information
Systems Laboratory at NCAR.
Network Common Data Form (NetCDF), a data format for
reducing storage size popular in the atmospheric and related
sciences by Unidata,
a community program of
the University Corporation for
Atmospheric Research (UCAR).
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