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Global Climate Perspectives System Project Description
The Global Climate Perspectives System (GCPS) is a joint research project between three laboratories of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The three laboratories are: - The Global Climate Laboratory of the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC/GCL) in Asheville, NC - The Climate Diagnostics Center (CDC) of the Environmental Research Laboratory (ERL) in Boulder, CO - The Climate Analysis Center (CAC) in Washington, D.C. The goals of the GCPS are: - To study the existence and magnitude of climate changes on a global scale. - To create high quality global climate reference datasets and to provide access to those datasets to the research community. - To create a set of computer tools to aid climate research. Datasets that are available for downloading via anonymous FTP or Mosaic (WWW) are: - Global Maximum-Minimum Temperature Dataset - NOAA Climatological Baseline Dataset - Monthly Station Temperature Data - NOAA Climatological Baseline Dataset - Monthly Station Temperature Anomaly Data - NOAA Climatological Baseline Dataset - Monthly Gridded Temperature Anomaly Data - NOAA Climatological Baseline Dataset - Seasonal Gridded Temperature Anomaly Data Reference: Carroll, Thomas J. and C. Bruce Baker. "The Global Climate Perspectives System: An Intelligent Database System for the Analysis of Environmental Data", Workshop on Climate Database System, 30 Aug. - 3 Sept., Hamburg, Germany. Contacts: Danny Brinegar NOAA/NCDC Asheville, NC 28801 Phone: 828-271-4711 Email: dbrinega@ncdc.noaa.gov Data Availability: The data from the GCPS project are available via anonymous FTP and from the World Wide Web (WWW) using Mosaic. FTP access: ftp ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov login: anonymous password: WWW access (NOAA/NCDC Home Page): URL: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/gcps/gcps.html |
