Web Expert Team 2.2 on Climate Monitoring including use of Satellite & Marine Data & Products
Operational information and software
Climate Monitoring Resources
- Temperature
- NOAA/ESRL Sea Surface Temperature data/graphics
- NOAA/NCDC Global Climate At A Glance
- NOAA/NCDC Weekly Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies
- NOAA/NCDC Extended Reconstructed SST and Optimum Interpolated SST Datasets
- MSU Satellite tropospheric and stratospheric temperature data
- Radiosonde Atmospheric Temperature Products for Assessing Climate
- NOAA/NCDC Global State of the Climate report for most recent month
- NOAA/NCEP Global Ocean Data Assimilation System of current conditions
- NOAA/CPC Regional Climate Maps
- NOAA/CPC Global Regional Temperature time series (30, 90, 365)
- Rainfall
- NOAA/CPC Global Precipitation Monitoring (GOES Pcp Index, CMAP, CAMS_OPI, OLR, Global Merged IR Data)
- NASA Goddard Global Precipitation Analysis
- Global Precipitation Climatology Center global monthly analysis
- NOAA/CPC Daily Precipitation Analysis for Western Hemisphere
- NOAA/CPC Regional Climate Maps
- NOAA/CPC Regional Climate Map
- NOAA/CPC Global Regional Precipitation time series (30, 90, 365 day)
- NOAA/ESRL Outgoing Longwave Radiation data/graphic
- NOAA/NCDC Global Historical Climatology Network, 20,000+ precipstns
- Global Precipipation Centre
- Snow, Sea Ice, and Glaciers
- ENSO
- Tropical Cyclones
- General
- Annual State of the Climate Report
- NOAA/CPC African Desk Monitoring and Data
- NOAA/NCDC Global Hazards and Extreme, Monthly highlights
- NOAA/NCDC North American Climate Extremes Indices
- NOAA/NCDC Teleconnection Indices
- A WMO/CCl World Weather & Climate Extremes Archive
- Global and Chinese updated information of climate system monitoring – from Beijing Climate Center
- North American Drought Monitor
- Climate Trends and Variations Bulletin (CTVB) in Canada
- including national + regional summaries Current bulletins: http://www.msc-smc.ec.gc.ca/ccrm/bulletin/national_e.cfm
- Past bulletins: http://www.msc-smc.ec.gc.ca/ccrm/bulletin/archive_e.cfm
- Base data sets for defining the historical climate in Canada – base for CTVB: Adjusted/Homogenized Canadian Climate Database (AHCCD): http://www.cccma.bc.ec.gc.ca/hccd/index.shtml
- Climate Summaries: http://www.climate.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/prods_servs/cdn_climate_summary_e.html
- Atlantic Region Monthly Climate summary: http://atlantic-web1.ns.ec.gc.ca/climatecentre/default.asp?lang=En&n=0D8BAF5C-1
- Quebec Region Climate Monitoring: http://www.criacc.qc.ca/climat/suivi/suiv_sais_e.html
- U.S. WRCC (Western Regional Climate Center) Climate Monitoring: http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/MONITORING.html
- Climate Monitoring and Data in NOAA Climate Prediction Center: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/MD_index.shtml
- European EUMETSAT Climate Monitoring: http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/AboutEUMETSAT/ClimateMonitoring/index.htm?l=en
- Climate Monitoring in European Space Agency:http://earth.esa.int/DATA_UTIL/CLIMATE/
- The South Pacific Sea Level & Climate Monitoring Project: http://www.bom.gov.au/ntc/IDO60101/IDO60101.200803.pdf
- Otago (New Zealand) Climate Monitoring: http://www.orc.govt.nz/portal.asp?categoryid=5
- WMO/WCP/WCDMP Climate System Monitoring site: http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/wcp/wcdmp/csm/global_en.html#
- North Atlantic Wind and Wave Climatologies (Atlas) – Environment Canada’s wave hindcasts for the North Atlantic and Beaufort Sea: http://www.oceanweather.net/MSC50WaveAtlas/
- Tokyo climate center: http://ds.data.jma.go.jp/tcc/tcc/products/gwp/gwp.html
- APCC Asian Pacific Climate Center: http://www.apcc21.net/climate/climate04.php
Satellite and Marine data
- Observing networks and programmes
- 2 WMO Space Program
Relevant information can be found at http://www.wmo.ch/web/sat/satsun.html which gives access to the following topics: - Marine data
GCOS Climate Data Record (CDR) requirements
- GCOS Climate Monitoring Principles: http://gosic.org/gcos/GCOS-climate-monitoring-principles.htm
- GCOS Observation Requirements in WMO/CEOS Database (Incl. ECVs): http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/gcos/documents/GCOS_WCRP_ObservationRqmts_July2007_ECV.pdf
- Climate Observation Needs: http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/gcos/index.php?name=ClimateObservationNeeds
- Essential Climate Variables (ECVs): http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/gcos/index.php?name=EssentialClimateVariables
- Systematic Observation Requirements for Satellite-based Products for Climate: http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/gcos/Publications/gcos-107.pdf
- GCOS Progress Report Executive Summary (incl. priorities for the next five years: 2009-2013): http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/gcos/Publications/GCOS_ProgressReport_ExSumm_for_SBSTA_30_Final.pdf
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