Global Change Master Directory gsfc-gcmduso@mail.nasa.gov 50 2013-05-24T03:45:38Z http://mddemo.gsfc.nasa.gov/KeywordSearch/OpenSearch.do 7535 0 http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS330.0 2006-10-01T00:00:00Z 2006-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

This datasets holds all 2006 TIGGE data archived on the NCAR MSS. The archive ranges from Oct 1, 2006 to Dec 31, 2006. Ensemble model data are archived from the European Center for Medium-Range Weather ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS330.1 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z 2007-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

This datasets holds all 2007 TIGGE data archived on the NCAR MSS. The archive ranges from Jan 1, 2006 to current available data. Ensemble model data are archived from the European Center for Medium-Range ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS510.5 1890-01-01T00:00:00Z 2007-05-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

NCDC's U.S. Cooperative Summary of Data (DSI3200) dataset was screened for stations with long continuous observations for use in assessing 20th-century U.S. snowfall trends. ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS474.0 1937-05-01T00:00:00Z 1991-03-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

This dataset consists of 31 Russian north polar drifting stations which took observations of surface variables for the periods 1937-1938 and 1950-1991. We received the latest ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS611.0 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

From the ALPine EXperiment, for FGGE

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS702.0 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z 2001-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

A reprocessing of Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Pathfinder atmosphere (PATMOS) results in a 20-year global climate dataset providing information on the earth's radiation budget. ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS467.0 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z 1973-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

Global synoptic surface observations from the Air Weather Service for 1901-1973, called "Tape Deck 13" because it is the combination of multiple card decks (datasets), conversion ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS508.0 1881-01-01T00:00:00Z 1958-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

Daily Tmin, Tmax, Precip data for 1881-1985, interpolated to fill missing intervals. Prepared by the Oklahoma Climatological Survey under the direction of Amos Eddy. Long term ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS222.0 1946-01-01T00:00:00Z 1975-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

Monthly analysis of Arctic surface temperature.

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS256.2 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z 1990-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

University of Washington Polar Science Center ARGOS buoy data for January-June and October-December 1987. This data is supplied by the National Snow and Ice Data Center. Dataset ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS718.0 1981-12-01T00:00:00Z 1989-10-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

This dataset contains global semi-monthly temperature distribution histograms derived from GOES satellite data. The data are on a 2.5-degree grid and span cover the period from December 1981 to October ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS719.0 1968-03-01T00:00:00Z 1985-02-28T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

Monthly tropical strip wind and outgoing longwave radiation (OLR). OLR is the 1985 revised calibration. For the 1974-1978 period, the winds here are better than in the NMC analyses.

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS400.0 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z 1977-03-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

This dataset contains radiosonde observations from the Ascension Islands for the period from January 1968 to March 1977.

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS541.1 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z 1993-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

COADS observations (1945-1993) were used to derive climatologies and year-month anomalies for the basic observed variables and heat flux components. The data are analyzed to ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS482.0 1832-01-01T00:00:00Z 1983-02-28T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

This dataset contains daily and monthly precipitation data for Australian stations. The general period of record is January 1832 to February 1983, but the actual periods vary ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS523.0 1939-01-01T00:00:00Z 1982-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

This dataset contains hourly observations and summary of day information from Australian observing stations generally from 1957 to 1982, but some data go back as far as 1939.

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS108.3 1968-08-01T00:00:00Z 1977-06-30T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

This dataset contains 500mb heights for the Southern Hemisphere for the period June 1968 to August 1977. The grid has a resolution of 10 degrees in the longitudinal direction and 5 degrees in the ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS201.0 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z 1982-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

A climatology of the Southern Hemisphere from Australia's Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre.

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS108.0 1972-04-24T00:00:00Z 1992-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

From the Australian National Meteorological Research Centre, twice daily Southern Hemisphere grids on a polar stereographic projection. DSS derived the monthly mean grids. Later and ongoing data may ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS732.0 1984-11-01T00:00:00Z 1987-05-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

Separate data for the scanner and wide field instruments. From NASA. The data are: daily longwave radiation and albedo; hourly longwave and albedo, average for the month; monthly mean longwave and ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS816.0 1902-01-01T00:00:00Z 1978-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

Statistical data from a world-wide wind energy resource assessment is provided for a selection of stations in Central and South America, Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS741.1 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z 1993-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

Global surface solar irradiance data derived from ISCCP data in 0.5-degree-square boxes. Daily values of total irradiance, clear sky irradiance, photosynthetically active radiation (PAR, 400-70 irradiance, ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS741.0 1983-07-01T00:00:00Z 1991-06-30T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

Global surface solar irradiance data derived from ISCCP data in 2.5-degree-square boxes. Daily and monthly total irradiance, daily clear sky irradiance, monthly cloud fraction, std dev of total irradiance. ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS501.0 1897-01-01T00:00:00Z 1977-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

Daily temperature and precipitation data have been assembled from Boulder newspaper weather pages and other available sources to provide a history of Boulder, CO weather from ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS501.5 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z 1969-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

This dataset contains wind speed, direction, and gust data for Boulder, Colorado during strong downsloping wind events in 1969.

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS394.1 1949-12-08T00:00:00Z 1986-11-17T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

NCDC has provided rawinsonde data for eleven Brazilian stations and pibal data for thirty stations for the general period January 1950 to November 1986. The actual period, however, varies widely by ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS209.2 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

Contains monthly grids of surface parameters.

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS218.0 1978-10-01T00:00:00Z 1985-09-30T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

This dataset contains monthly longterm climatological means, variances, and covariances of geopotential height, temperature, specific humidity, wind, and vertical motion for ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS086.0 1978-10-01T00:00:00Z 1994-09-30T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

This dataset contains monthly means of several meteorological variables, their squares, and their cross-products for nine levels in the atmosphere. These mean grids were prepared by the Climate ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS573.0 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

This dataset contains monthly mean rainfall amounts from Malaysia, islands in the central Pacific Ocean, and Hawaii.

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS718.5 1974-06-01T00:00:00Z 1999-02-28T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

This dataset contains monthly and semi-monthly means of outgoing longwave radiation derived from polar orbiting satellites passing over each earth location at least twice daily. The data from both ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS570.3 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z 1983-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

Monthly temperature and precipitation for U.S. stations for 1981 to 1983 from the Climate Analysis Center (CAC).

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS511.0 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z 1997-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

This dataset contains daily observations of maximum and minimum temperature, precipitation, snowfall, and snow depth for 1062 observing stations in the lower 48 United States. ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS565.1 1891-01-01T00:00:00Z 1987-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

This dataset contains sunshine data for 240 U.S. stations (including Puerto Rico and nine Pacific islands) for the years from 1891 to 1984. The periods of record for individual ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS195.5 1946-01-01T00:00:00Z 1994-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

Version III CD-ROMs include twice daily analyses from 1946 through December 1994. Selected daily grids (not on CD-ROMs) of 1995-2009 are now available as of 2010JAN28.

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS260.2 -180.0,-89.5,180.0,89.5 1949-01-15T00:00:00Z 2006-12-15T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

This dataset contains the complete set of global air-sea heat and water flux components computed from version 2 of CORE (Common Ocean Reference Experiment) atmospheric state ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS512.0 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-05-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

This global summary of the day and month data set is obtained on a delayed monthly basis from the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) of the National Centers for Environmental ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS728.1 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z 2006-06-30T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

Precipitation from five kinds of satellite estimates and the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis model output are combined for global coverage monthly precipitation values. The standard products merge ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS516.2 1840-05-01T00:00:00Z 1991-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

This version is the merge of ds516.0 [] and ds516.1 []. Duplicate reports have been eliminated. Conflicting reports have been saved in a separate file. Bad reports have been ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS516.0 1890-01-01T00:00:00Z 1979-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

First version of set. Combined with ds516.1 [], a later version, to create ds516.2 [http://dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ds516.2/], the preferred set to use.

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS516.1 1840-05-01T00:00:00Z 1991-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

A later version of the set. Combined with ds516.0 [] to create ds516.2 [http://dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ds516.2/], the preferred set to use.

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS318.3 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

The second generation General Circulation Model (GCMII) at the Canadian Climate Centre was used to run a CO2 experiment in which the current climate (1xCO2) was compared with ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS487.0 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

This dataset, provided by the Meteorological Service of Canada, contains a subset of their hourly station data archive.

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS256.0 1978-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

Canadian quality-controlled Integrated Science Data Management (ISDM, formerly MEDS) drifting (and some moored) buoy data, used as input for International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS576.0 1840-03-01T00:00:00Z 1982-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

This dataset contains monthly temperature and precipitation data for Canadian surface stations through 1989. The period of record for individual stations varies widely, but ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS805.0 1951-05-01T00:00:00Z 1975-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

The total ozone observations in this dataset were digitized from "Ozone Data for the World", published by the Meteorological Service of Canada in cooperation with the World Meteorological Organization ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS805.2 1957-07-01T00:00:00Z 1985-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

Daily station total ozone and ozonesondes from Canada.

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS469.0 1963-01-01T00:00:00Z 1976-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

This dataset contains daily surface observations from ninety-five Canadian stations from January 1963 to December 1976.

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS825.0 1659-01-01T00:00:00Z 1995-08-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

This dataset contains a long time series of temperature for central England. Monthly mean temperatures are available from January 1659, and daily mean temperatures begin in January 1772. Both daily ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS729.0 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z 1997-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

This Global Precipitation Climate Project (GPCP) dataset contains 89 months of DMSP SSM/I derived monthly rainfall indices on a 5-degree latitude/longitude grid covering the oceans from 50S latitude ...