Global Change Master Directory gsfc-gcmduso@mail.nasa.gov 50 2013-05-24T02:05:44Z http://mddemo.gsfc.nasa.gov/KeywordSearch/OpenSearch.do 78 0 http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS541.3 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z 1997-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

Monthly 2-degree by 2-degree and 5-degree by 5-degree wave statistics were computed for 1958-1997 (Global Waves) and 1964-1993 (North Atlantic Waves) respectively from COADS ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]PODAAC-GEOS3-AGDRA -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1975-04-14T00:00:00Z 1978-12-02T00:00:00Z 2013-05-17T04:00:00Z

These data consist of Geos-3 altimeter measurements produced by NOAA/NODC/Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry. The dataset contains 5,006,956 altimetric sea surface heights and supporting information ...

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]gov.noaa.ncdc.C00060 -158.0,-17.0,-150.0,20.0 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z 1980-06-30T00:00:00Z 2012-10-18T04:00:00Z

NORPLAX Shuttle Experiment is historical digital data set DSI-9936, archived at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). In the early 1970s the North Pacific experiment (NORPLAX) was begun as part ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]SSEC-AMRC-SHIP_BUOY -180.0,-90.0,180.0,-50.0 1993-08-23T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 1998-12-02T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2012-09-03T04:00:00Z

We have observations from three ships near Antarctica, the R/V Polar Duke the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer and the R/V Laurence M. Gould. Data from 23 August 1993 are available via ftp and the files are ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]SSEC-AMRC-NCEP-WWFM -180.0,-90.0,180.0,0.0 1998-12-04T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2012-06-01T04:00:00Z

The AMRC has been archiving the National Centers for Environmental Prediction's (formerly the National Meteorological Center) Wind and Wave Forecast Model (WWFM). This collection can be very useful, ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GEOSAT_FOLLOWON -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1998-02-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2012-02-23T05:00:00Z

The US Navy launched the GeoSat Follow-On satellite (known as GFO) in February 1998 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County California aboard a Taurus launch vehicle. The GeoSat Follow-On ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[NOAA-NMMR]gov.noaa.class.J2-ANC -180.0,-66.0,180.0,66.0 2008-06-20T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2011-11-06T04:00:00Z

ABSTRACT: This collection of data contains OSTM/Jason-2 Ancillary data files. OSTM/JASON-2 is a follow-on mission continuing the TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1, and is designed to ensure continuity of ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[NOAA-NMMR]gov.noaa.class.J2-QA -180.0,-66.0,180.0,66.0 2008-06-20T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2011-11-06T04:00:00Z

ABSTRACT: OSTM/JASON-2 is a follow-on mission continuing the TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1, and is designed to ensure continuity of high quality measurements for ocean science and to provide operational ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[NOAA-NMMR]gov.noaa.class.J2-XGDR -180.0,-66.0,180.0,66.0 2008-07-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2011-11-04T04:00:00Z

ABSTRACT: OSTM/JASON-2 is a follow-on mission continuing the TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1, and is designed to ensure continuity of high quality measurements for ocean science and to provide operational ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[NOAA-NMMR]gov.noaa.class.J2-AUX -180.0,-66.0,180.0,66.0 2008-07-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2011-11-04T04:00:00Z

ABSTRACT: This collection of data contains OSTM/Jason-2 Auxiliary data files. OSTM/JASON-2 is a follow-on mission continuing the TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1, and is designed to ensure continuity of ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[NOAA-NMMR]gov.noaa.class.J2-ORBINFO -180.0,-66.0,180.0,66.0 2008-07-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2011-11-04T04:00:00Z

ABSTRACT: OSTM/JASON-2 is a follow-on mission continuing the TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1, and is designed to ensure continuity of high quality measurements for ocean science and to provide operational ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[NOAA-NMMR]gov.noaa.class.J2-TEL -180.0,-66.0,180.0,66.0 2008-07-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2011-11-04T04:00:00Z

ABSTRACT: OSTM/JASON-2 is a follow-on mission continuing the TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1, and is designed to ensure continuity of high quality measurements for ocean science and to provide operational ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NOAA_PMEL_ENSO -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2011-10-04T04:00:00Z

The El Nino Theme Page is a focused resource of information related to the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon. It links to widely distributed information related to El Nino, ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]FNMOC_SWH -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2011-09-29T04:00:00Z

Sea wave height observational data from the FNMOC Ocean QC (Quality Control) process are posted in near real-time to the USGODAE server. These files contain all of the unclassified in-situ data used ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NAVOCEANO_ERS-2_SSH -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2011-08-11T04:00:00Z

U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO)'s European Remote Sensing Satellite-2 (ERS-2) Sea Surface Height (SSH) daily retrievals.

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NAVOCEANO_JASON-1_SSH -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2011-08-11T04:00:00Z

U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO)'s Jason-1 Sea Surface Height (SSH) daily retrievals.

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NOAA_NWS_TLH_MARINE_BUOY -170.0,50.0,-123.0,63.0-137.0,32.0,-116.0,50.0-165.0,15.0,-150.0,25.0135.0,5.0,165.0,13.0-98.0,23.0,-78.0,32.0-82.0,30.0,-70.0,40.0-93.0,41.0,-75.0,50.0-75.0,40.0,-53.0,45.0-20.0,46.0,5.0,62.0 2011-07-28T04:00:00Z

Interactive Marine Observations: The Tallahassee Office of the National Weather Service (NWS) makes real-time marine weather observations accessible online for worldwide ocean ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gov.noaa.ncdc.C00008 110.0,0.0,10.0,68.0 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z 1981-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-07-21T04:00:00Z

Climatic Summaries for NOAA Data Buoys is a historical publication archived at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). The primary source of data used in this climatic summary for NOAA data buoys ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gov.noaa.ncdc.C00460 130.0,-15.0,-62.0,72.0 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z 1993-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-07-21T04:00:00Z

Coastal-Marine Automated Network Station and Buoy Reports and Summaries is a CD-ROM that was produced jointly by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) and the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC). ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gov.noaa.ncdc.C00004 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z 1995-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-07-21T04:00:00Z

The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) has, in archive, the digital data set Gridded Atmospheric and Ocean Data (DSI-9934), which was provided by the U.S. Navy Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gov.noaa.ncdc.C00002 -180.0,15.0,-60.0,65.0 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2011-07-21T04:00:00Z

This digital data set is archived at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). Buoys that collect the data make up the US Coastal Marine station group and are monitored by the National Data Buoy Center ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gov.noaa.ncdc.C00007 130.0,3.0,37.0,68.0 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z 1982-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-07-21T04:00:00Z

SOWM Hindcast Wind and Wave Climatology for North Pacific, North Atlantic and Mediterranean is historical digital data set DSI-9786, archived at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). It is a digital ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gov.noaa.ncdc.C00013 -92.0,41.0,-76.0,49.0 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z 1973-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-07-21T04:00:00Z

Summary of Synoptic Meteorological Observations - Great Lakes is a historical publication archived at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). These publications of synoptic meteorological observations ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gov.noaa.ncdc.C00067 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z 1979-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-07-21T04:00:00Z

Surface Marine Observations is historical digital data set DSI-1127, archived at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). The major parameters making up this file ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gov.noaa.ncdc.C00543 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2002-06-18T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2011-07-21T04:00:00Z

World Area Forecast System (WAFS) is digital data set DSI-9939, archived at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). WAFS is a system for the world wide broadcast of aviation related weather information ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]DART 133.0,-33.0,-50.0,58.0 2011-03-11T05:00:00Z

<p>To ensure early detection of tsunamis and to acquire data critical to real-time forecasts, NOAA has placed tsunami detection stations that employ the Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS256.3 1970-06-26T00:00:00Z 1998-11-23T00:00:00Z 2011-01-31T05:00:00Z

Data from Canadian buoys through Nov. 1998, data from two NOAA buoys now operated by Canada, and data from three Canadian waverider buoys.

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NOAA_NDBC_WWW -177.8,-60.5,179.1,70.4 2009-06-11T04:00:00Z

NOAA's National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) offers real-time and historical data from its moored buoys, drifting buoy data, and C-MAN (Coastal-Marine Automated Network)stations. Data are transmitted ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]DYCOMS2_UCAR_JOSS_NOAA_CODIAC -127.0,26.0,-115.0,37.0 2001-07-07T00:00:00Z 2001-07-28T00:00:00Z 2009-04-28T04:00:00Z

DYCOMS-II is the name given to a field campaign which collected data for the purposes of testing large-eddy simulations of nocturnal stratocumulus. The experiment consisted of nine flights out of ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gov.noaa.ncdc.C00188 -5.0,30.0,38.0,50.0 1982-03-01T00:00:00Z 1982-04-01T00:00:00Z 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

Alpine Experiment is historical data set DSI-9684 archived at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). The last major field experiment of the Global Atmospheric Research Program (GARP) evolved from ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ELSEVIER_ATLAS -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

The Atlas of the Oceans: Wind and Wave Climate is the first CD-ROM in this field to offer integrated dynamic access to spatially-consistent data, abstracts, video, graphics and full electronic ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]CEOP_MODEL_GATEWAY -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

These data consist of model output data to support the Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period (CEOP). The data consists of Model Output Location Time Series (MOLTS) from NOAA/NCEP Global ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ECMWF_OPER_EPS -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1994-05-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

These data sets contain data at the resolution of the ensemble prediction forecast system in operational use at ECMWF. Since the resolution and internal representation of the archive may ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gov.noaa.ncdc.C00273 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1940-01-01T00:00:00Z 1952-12-31T00:00:00Z 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

The Primary source of data used to produce these files were from vessels of the following cooperatives: Cuba, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany (Federal Republic of Germany), Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gov.noaa.ncdc.C00271 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z 1953-12-31T00:00:00Z 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

Japanese Ship Observations is historical data set DSI-1118, archived at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). The Ocean areas covered were wherever Japanese ships operated, except observations ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gov.noaa.ncdc.C00199 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1957-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

Mariners Weather Log is a publication archived at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). This publication is issued in magazine form several times a year and contains articles, descriptions, and ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gov.noaa.ncdc.C00235 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1854-01-01T00:00:00Z 1971-12-31T00:00:00Z 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

Mariners Worldwide Climatic Guide to Tropical Storms at Sea is a historical publication archived at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). The publication provides narrative information about where ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gov.noaa.ncdc.C00220 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1975-02-11T00:00:00Z 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

NMC GTS Surface Marine Observations - Sea Surface is digital data set DSI-6105, archived at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). Data was provided from the Global Telecommunications System (GTS) ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]FNMOC_WaveWatchIII -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

WAVEWATCH III (Tolman 1997, 1999a) is a third generation wave model developed at NOAA/NCEP in the spirit of the WAM model (WAMDIG 1988, Komen et al. 1994). It is a further development ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gov.noaa.ncdc.C00270 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1951-06-01T00:00:00Z 1963-06-30T00:00:00Z 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

These data sets contain U.S. Navy hourly ship meteorological and ocean surface observations, recorded on forms WBAN 11A and 11B. DSI-1117 data began in 1951 and continued through the June of 1963 ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gov.noaa.ncdc.C00071 179.4,19.9,-66.0,62.0 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z 1975-12-31T00:00:00Z 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

Wave Information Study (WIS) is historical digital dataset DSI-9787, archived at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). The WIS project produces a high-quality online database of hindcast, nearshore ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GEOSAT_GM_ERM_NODC -180.0,-72.0,180.0,72.0 1985-03-31T00:00:00Z 1989-12-31T00:00:00Z 2009-01-08T05:00:00Z

This June 1997 release of satellite altimeter data collected by the U.S. Navy Geosat mission represents a significant improvement over previous versions. The ten CD-ROMs contain geophysical ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]CMO_WHOI_MOORING_CTD -71.0,40.0,-70.0,41.0 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z 1997-06-30T00:00:00Z 2008-10-07T04:00:00Z

As part of the Coastal Mixing and Optics (CMO) Program, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Upper Ocean Processes Group deployed four moorings on the ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]aviso_sensor -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2008-09-09T04:00:00Z

Data for 20 Hz along-track waveform information (corrections to apply) is available online. This global data can be used within coastal, ice studies or anything requesting a different ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]aviso_wave -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2008-09-09T04:00:00Z

Global data for along-track significant wave height and wind speed modulus (delayed time and real time) are available online. The data can be used for marine meteorology, and ocean-atmosphere ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]mvco_ocean -70.556,41.337,-70.556,41.337 2001-06-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2008-09-02T04:00:00Z

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has built the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO) near South Beach in Edgartown, Massachusetts. The project was initiated by scientists ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ERS.ALT.URA -180.0,-82.0,180.0,82.0 1991-07-30T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2007-04-13T04:00:00Z

This product contains an averaged wind speed, wave height, and satellite altitude together with the standard deviations (one per quantity) at 1Hz rate along the satellite track. The fast delivery ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]World_Wave_Atlas -180.0,-72.0,180.0,72.0 1986-12-01T00:00:00Z 1995-12-31T00:00:00Z 2007-01-31T05:00:00Z

World Wave Atlas (WWA) is a user-friendly PC MS-Windows application which can be used for geographical presentation of wave and wind statistics world-wide. The first release provides the user all-weather, ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]CDIAC_NDP043C -130.0,30.0,-116.0,50.0 2006-10-13T04:00:00Z

[Adapted from the online documentation] The Numeric Data Package (NDP-043C) consists of a digital data base that may be used to identify coastlines along the U.S. West Coast that are at risk to sea-level ...