Global Change Master Directory gsfc-gcmduso@mail.nasa.gov 50 2013-05-18T05:10:42Z http://mddemo.gsfc.nasa.gov/KeywordSearch/OpenSearch.do 1459 0 http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]geodata_0879 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,-60.5033 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 2007-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-07T04:00:00Z

Killed: Persons confirmed as dead and persons missing and presumed dead. Disaster: Situation or event, which overwhelms local capacity, necessitating a request to national or international level ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]USGS_EROS_HDDS_RITA -100.0,22.0,-68.0,41.0 2005-09-15T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-05-07T04:00:00Z

USGS EROS supported first responders and emergency services working in response to Hurricane Rita. EROS channeled vital imagery to state and local governments, FEMA, and other federal agencies. These ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]USGS_EROS_HDDS_WILMA -98.0,10.0,-70.0,35.0 2013-05-07T04:00:00Z

USGS EROS supported first responders and emergency services working in response to Hurricane Wilma. EROS channeled vital imagery to state and local governments, FEMA, and other federal agencies. ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GES_DISC_GPCPRAIN_V2.2 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-04-30T04:00:00Z

The Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) was established by the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) to address the problem of quantifying the distribution of precipitation around the ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GES_DISC_WILLMOTT_MATSUURA_V1.02 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z 1999-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-04-30T04:00:00Z

Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN version 2) and Legates and Willmott's (1990a and b) station records of monthly and annual mean air temperature (T) and total precipitation (P) were used ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GES_DISC_TRMM_TCC_V6 2013-04-29T04:00:00Z

The TRMM Composite Climatology (TCC) is a climatology (or map of mean values) of surface precipitation based on 13 years of data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM). The TCC takes ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gpmplgcpex 79.93,44.17,79.64,44.69 2011-12-08T00:00:00Z 2012-02-29T00:00:00Z 2013-04-26T04:00:00Z

The Pluvio rain gauge dataset contains both one minute measurement and a cumulative record of the accumulation and intensity for liquid, solid, and mixed precipitation collected during the GPM Cold-season ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]CLIMDIV -127.83,23.25,-65.38,48.19 2013-04-22T04:00:00Z

This is a coverage of climate divisions from the National Climatic Data Center. The purpose of this data set is to display seasonal maps of precipitation and temperature in the National Water Summary ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gpmpagcpex 79.93,44.17,79.64,44.69 2011-10-26T00:00:00Z 2012-03-10T00:00:00Z 2013-04-18T04:00:00Z

The Autonomous Parsivel Unit (APU) is an optical disdrometer based on single particle extinction that measures particle size and fall velocity. This APU consists of the Parsivel, which was developed ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]LC14_RISQUE -82.0,-34.0,-34.035,9.24 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z 2001-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-04-12T04:00:00Z

A simple GIS soil-water balance model for the Amazon Basin, called RisQue (Risco de Queimadasa -- Fire Risk), was used to conduct an analysis of spatial and temporal patterns of drought in moist tropical ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]PC06_ECMWF_LBA -62.3722,-10.85,-61.87,-10.75 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z 1999-03-31T00:00:00Z 2013-04-12T04:00:00Z

This data set provides the mean diurnal cycle of precipitation, near-surface thermodynamics, and surface fluxes generated from short-term forecasts from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GES_DISC_AIRG2SSD_V005 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2002-08-30T00:00:00Z 2013-02-28T00:00:00Z 2013-04-11T04:00:00Z

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) is a facility instrument aboard the second Earth Observing System (EOS) polar-orbiting platform, EOS Aqua. In combination with the Advanced Microwave ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gpmoumesmc3e -103.0,33.28,-94.0,37.0 2011-04-22T00:00:00Z 2011-06-06T00:00:00Z 2013-03-29T04:00:00Z

The GPM Ground Validation Oklahoma Climatological Survey Mesonet MC3E data were collected during the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) in central Oklahoma during the April???June ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GES_DISC_TRMM_3B31_V7 -180.0,-40.0,180.0,40.0 1997-12-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-03-22T04:00:00Z

The TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI) is a nine-channel passive microwave radiometer which builds on the heritage of the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) instrument. It is flown aboard the Defense ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GES_DISC_TRMM_2B31_V7 -180.0,-40.0,180.0,40.0 1997-12-07T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-03-22T04:00:00Z

The TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI) is a nine-channel passive microwave radiometer, which builds on the heritage of the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) instrument flown aboard the Defense Meteorological ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GES_DISC_TRMM_3A11_V7 -180.0,-40.0,180.0,40.0 1997-12-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-03-22T04:00:00Z

The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) is a joint U.S.-Japan satellite mission to monitor tropical and subtropical precipitation and to estimate its associated latent heating. TRMM was successfully ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GES_DISC_TRMM_2A25_V7 -180.0,-38.0,180.0,38.0 1997-12-07T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-03-22T04:00:00Z

The TRMM Precipitation Radar (PR), the first of its kind in space, is an electronically scanning radar, operating at 13.8 GHz that measures the 3-D rainfall distribution over both land and ocean, ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]geodata_0067 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,-60.5033 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z 2002-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-03-08T05:00:00Z

The original data took the form of a value for each month and each box on a 0.5 degree latitude / longitude grid. The annual values are the average of their constituent months, they have been calculated ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]geodata_0059 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,-60.5033 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z 1990-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-02-28T05:00:00Z

The Holdridge Life Zones data set is from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analyses (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria. The data set shows the Holdridge Life Zones of the World, a combination ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GES_DISC_AIRG2SSD_V006 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2002-08-30T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-02-26T05:00:00Z

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) is a facility instrument aboard the second Earth Observing System (EOS) polar-orbiting platform, EOS Aqua. In combination with the Advanced Microwave ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]MADIS_METSFC -170.0,5.0,-50.0,70.0-180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2013-02-21T05:00:00Z

Surface land and maritime observing stations report various meteorological variables that describe the current weather. These variables include basic measurements such as temperature, relative humidity, ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gpmpanoaamc3e -121.0,28.0,-91.0,43.0 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z 2011-06-06T00:00:00Z 2013-02-14T05:00:00Z

The NOAA Parsivel data collected during the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) experiment in central Oklahoma contains moment data (reflectivity and rain rate estimates) or ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]CIESIN_SEDAC_MVA_ECCGFPSRES -180.0,-58.0,180.0,90.0 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z 2000-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-02-12T05:00:00Z

Effects of Climate Change on Global Food Production from SRES Emissions and Socioeconomic Scenarios is an update to a major crop modeling study by the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]OKLAHOMA_MESONET -103.0,33.0,-94.0,37.0 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-02-12T05:00:00Z

http://www.mesonet.org/ The Oklahoma Mesonetwork is a network of over 110 automated environmental monitoring stations operated jointly by Oklahoma State University and The University of Oklahoma. ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gov.noaa.ncdc.C00510 145.0,-15.0,-60.0,72.0 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-02-04T05:00:00Z

Storm Events Database is a web page at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). Search the Storm Events Database to find various types of storms recorded in your county; or use other selection criteria ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]UCAR_NCAR_EXTREME_WEATHER -125.0,18.0,-65.0,49.0 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z 1999-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-01-24T05:00:00Z

The Extreme Weather Sourcebook is an index to the economic and other societal impacts related to hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, lightning, and other United States weather phenomena. The hurricane ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gov.noaa.ncdc.C00508 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2013-01-24T05:00:00Z

Extreme Weather and Climate Events is a web page at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). Extreme Weather and Climate Events web site links to some of the more interesting NCDC web pages. Links ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]USGS_OFR_2010_1142 -83.0,24.0,-80.0,29.0 2008-08-15T00:00:00Z 2008-09-26T00:00:00Z 2013-01-24T05:00:00Z

Weather conditions produced by Tropical Storm Fay from August 15 through September 26, 2008, caused historic flooding, spawned 19 tornadoes, inflicted $390 million in damages, and contributed to five ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GLOBALSOD_NCDC -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1930-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-01-24T05:00:00Z

The NCDC home page address on the WWW is 'http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/'. To obtain the data via direct internet-FTP: open ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov OR open hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov; login: ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gov.noaa.ncdc.C00532 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-01-24T05:00:00Z

Integrated Surface Hourly (ISH) Data is digital data set DSI-3505, archived at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). The Integrated Surface Hourly (ISH) database is composed of worldwide surface ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gov.noaa.ncdc.C00353 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-01-24T05:00:00Z

Integrated Surface Hourly Observations CD-ROM Set is a product offered by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). The product is composed of worldwide surface weather observations from about 12,000 ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NASA_TRMM_KATRINA -102.0,25.0,-80.0,40.0 2005-08-23T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-01-24T05:00:00Z

The NASA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) center provides imagery and animations of Hurricane Katrina. The imagery shows the precipitation coverage and rainfall estimates in the land falling ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NASA_TRMM_RITA -100.0,23.0,-72.0,40.0 2005-09-17T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-01-24T05:00:00Z

The NASA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) center provides imagery and animations of Hurricane Rita. The imagery shows the precipitation coverage and rainfall estimates in the land falling ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NASA_TRMM_WILMA -96.0,13.0,-70.0,33.0 2013-01-24T05:00:00Z

The NASA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) center provides imagery and animations of Hurricane Wilma. The imagery shows the precipitation coverage and rainfall estimates in the land falling ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gov.noaa.ncdc.C00610 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2000-11-25T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-01-24T05:00:00Z

The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) archives data from the NOAAPort NWSTG as digital data set DSI-6431. NOAA is the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, of which the National ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gov.noaa.ncdc.C00522 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2013-01-24T05:00:00Z

National Climatic Data Center Periodical Publications CD-ROM is a product available from the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). The CD- ROM contains PDF format copies of the most recent NCDC serial ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NOAA_NCDC_TORNADOES -96.0,30.0,-77.0,42.0 1997-02-28T00:00:00Z 1997-03-03T00:00:00Z 2013-01-24T05:00:00Z

On March 1, 1997, a severe weather situation with tornadoes and very heavy rainfall erupted along a nearly stationary front from Texas to West Virginia. At mid-afternoon on Saturday, an ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gov.noaa.ncdc.C00035 130.0,-15.0,-60.0,72.0 1983-05-31T00:00:00Z 2001-08-05T00:00:00Z 2013-01-24T05:00:00Z

Service Records and Retention System (SRRS) is historical digital data set DSI-9949, archived at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) has archived a number ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gov.noaa.ncdc.C00501 -125.0,24.0,-66.0,50.0 1997-12-01T00:00:00Z 1998-02-28T00:00:00Z 2013-01-24T05:00:00Z

The El Nino Winter of 1997 - 1998 is a technical report available from the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). Prior to the winter of 1997-8, record-breaking warm-episode (El Nino) conditions had ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gov.noaa.ncdc.C00535 170.0,15.0,-66.0,72.0 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z 2000-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-01-24T05:00:00Z

Thunderstorms Across the Nation is an atlas available through the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). The atlas describes all aspects of the climatology of thunderstorms and hail in the US during ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gov.noaa.ncdc.C00571 -180.0,18.0,-60.0,72.0 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-01-24T05:00:00Z

The Climate Extremes Index (CEI) is a study prepared by and available from the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). The CEI was first presented in 1995 as a framework for quantifying observed changes ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]UH_SOEST_METO 20.0,-50.0,120.0,10.0 2013-01-24T05:00:00Z

The University of Hawaii School of Ocean & Earth Science & Technology Department of Meteorology (UH/SOEST/METO) The UH/SOEST/METO Server provides weather data and forecasts, satellite imagery, and ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]BOREAS_H01UNCPD -106.2,53.88,-98.29,55.93 1994-05-23T00:00:00Z 1997-06-24T00:00:00Z 2013-01-23T05:00:00Z

Under-canopy precipitation measurements were made by the BOREAS HYD-01 science team in 1994, 1995, and 1996 at various flux tower sites in the NSA and SSA. In 1994, these data were collected at the ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]BOREAS_H8THRFLD -105.12,53.99,-98.15,55.88 1994-06-24T00:00:00Z 1996-08-11T00:00:00Z 2013-01-23T05:00:00Z

The BOREAS HYD-08 team made measurements of surface hydrological processes at the SSA (1996) and NSA OBS (1994) Tower Flux sites, supporting its research into point hydrological processes and the ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]BOREAS_H09RRADI -106.29,53.51,-104.31,54.27 1994-05-13T00:00:00Z 1994-09-23T00:00:00Z 2013-01-23T05:00:00Z

The BOREAS HYD-09 team collected data on precipitation and streamflow over portions of the NSA and SSA. This data set contains Cartesian maps of rain accumulation for 1-hour and daily periods during ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]DAMOC_synop -8.6667,70.9333,25.0667,76.5 2005-09-01T00:00:00Z 2007-11-16T00:00:00Z 2013-01-08T05:00:00Z

Quality controlled synoptic meteorological measurements performed by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute. Data are extracted from the public available database http://eklima.met.no/.

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]DOKIPY_ipy-thorpex -47.383278,62.49056,66.000946,82.803986 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z 2013-01-08T05:00:00Z

Limited area NWP using the UK MetOffice Portable Unified Model based on version 6.1 with modifications. The forecast domain is located over the Barents Sea. Hirlam12 forecasts are used as lateral ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GISS_GCSS-DIME_EUCREX93 -20.0,50.0,5.0,60.0 1993-09-10T00:00:00Z 1993-10-15T00:00:00Z 2013-01-03T05:00:00Z

The EUCREX-93 case study presents data from 10 Sep 1993 to 15 Oct 1993 and covers a region from 50N to 65N latitude and from 20W to 5E longitude. The data for this experiment ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]BOREAS_H08GP96 -105.12,53.99,-105.12,53.99 1996-07-04T00:00:00Z 1996-08-11T00:00:00Z 2013-01-02T05:00:00Z

The BOREAS HYD-08 team made measurements of surface hydrological processes at the SSA-OBS Tower Flux site to support its research into point hydrological processes and the spatial variation of these ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NASA_GPM_PLACE_HOLDER -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2012-12-31T05:00:00Z

[Note: This mission is in the implementation phase. Please monitor the GPM web page for mission updates http://pmm.nasa.gov/ ] [Text Source: NASA Science Missions Directorate Homepage, http://nasascience.nasa.gov/missions/gpm ...