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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).