This page is a catalogue that will be kept up to date pointing to selected sources of code and data related to climate science. Please keep us informed of any things we might have missed, or any updates to the links that are needed.
- Climate data (raw)
- Climate data (processed)
- Paleo-data
- Auxiliary data
- Paleo Reconstructions (including code)
- Large-scale model (Reanalysis) output
- Large-scale model (GCM) output
- Model codes (GCMs)
- Model codes (other)
- Data Visualisation and Analysis
- Master Repositories of climate and other Earth Science data
Climate data (raw)
- GHCN v.2 (Global Historical Climate Network: weather station records from around the world, temperature and precipitation)
- USHCN US. Historical Climate Network (v.1 and v.2)
- World Monthly Surface Station Climatology UCAR
- Antarctic weather stations
- European weather stations (ECA)
- Italian Meterological Society IMS
- Satellite feeds (AMSU, SORCE (Solar irradiance), NASA A-train, Ocean Color)
- Tide Gauges (Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level)
- World Glacier Monitoring Service
- Argo float data
- International Comprehensive Ocean/Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS) (Oceanic in situ observations)
- AERONET Aerosol information
- Arctic data from the Cooperative Arctic Data and Information Service (CADIS)
Climate data (processed)
- Surface temperature anomalies (GISTEMP (see also Clear Climate Code), HadCRU, NOAA NCDC, JMA, Berkeley Earth)
- Satellite temperatures (MSU) (UAH, RSS, Zou et al)
- Sea surface temperatures (Reynolds et al, OI)
- Stratospheric temperature
- Sea ice (Cryosphere Today, NSIDC, JAXA, Bremen, Arctic-Roos, DMI)
- Radiosondes (RAOBCORE, HadAT, U. Wyoming, RATPAC, IUK, Sterin (CDIAC), Angell (CDIAC) )
- Cloud and radiation products (ISCCP, CERES-ERBE)
- Sea level (U. Colorado, NOAA)
- Aerosols (AEROCOM, GACP)
- Greenhouse Gases (AGGI at NOAA, CO2 Mauna Loa, World Data Center for Greenhouse Gases, AIRS CO2 data (2003+))
- AHVRR data as used in Steig et al (2009)
- Snow Cover (Rutgers)
- GLIMS glacier database
- Ocean Heat Content: NODC, PMEL
- Ocean CO2 (CDIAC)
- GCOS Essential Climate Variables Index
- NOAA Climate Indicators BAMS State of the Climate
- Climate Data Factory
Paleo-data
- NOAA Paleoclimate
- Pangaea
- GRIP/NGRIP Ice cores (Denmark)
- GISP2 (note that the age model has been updated)
- National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
- Insolation (i.e. Milankovitch cycles): Lasker (2004), Berger and Loutre (1991), Huybers (2006)
Auxiliary data
- Solar System Calculations (JPL Horizons)
Paleo Reconstructions (including code)
- Reconstructions index and data (NOAA)
- Mann et al (2008) (also here, Mann et al (2009))
- Kaufmann et al (2009)
- Wahl and Ammann (2006)
- Mann et al (1998/1999)
Large-scale model (Reanalysis) output
These are weather models which have the real world observations assimilated into the solution to provide a ‘best guess’ of the evolution of weather over time (although pre-satellite era estimates (before 1979) are less accurate).
- ERA40 (1957-2001, from ECMWF)
- ERA-Interim (1989 – present, ECMWF’s latest project)
- NCEP (1948-present, NOAA), NCEP-2
- MERRA NASA GSFC
- JRA-25 (1979-2004, Japanese Met. Agency)
- North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR)
- 20th Century Reanalysis (1871-2008)
Large-scale model (GCM) output
These is output from the large scale global models used to assess climate change in the past, and make projections for the future. Some of this output is also available via the Data Visualisation tools linked below.
- CMIP3 output (~20 models, as used by IPCC AR4) at PCMDI
- GISS ModelE output (includes AR4 output as well as more specific experiments)
- GFDL Model output
Model codes (GCMs)
Downloadable codes for some of the GCMs.
- GISS ModelE (AR4 version, current snapshot)
- NCAR CESM; NCAR CCSM(Version 3.0, CCM3 (older vintage))
- EdGCM Windows based version of an older GISS model.
- Uni. Hamburg (SAM, PUMA and PLASIM)
- NEMO Ocean Model
- GFDL Models
- MIT GCM
- DOE E3SM
Model codes (other)
This category include links to analysis tools, simpler models or models focussed on more specific issues.
- Radiative Transfer models (AER RRTM)
- Rahmstorf (2007) Sea Level Rise Code
- Vermeer & Rahmstorf (2009) Sea Level Rise Code and Data
- ModTran (atmospheric radiation calculations and visualisations)
- Various climate-related online models (David Archer)
- Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) (FUND, FAIR, DICE, RICE)
- CliMT (also here) a Python-based software component toolkit
- Pyclimate Python tools for climate analysis
- CDAT Tools for analysing climate data in netcdf format (PCMDI)
- RegEM (Tapio Schneider)
- Time series analysis (MTM-SVD, SSA-MTM toolkit, Mann and Lees (1996))
- MAGICC
Data Visualisation and Analysis
These sites include some of the above data (as well as other sources) in an easier to handle form.
- ClimateExplorer (KNMI)
- Dapper (PMEL, NOAA)
- Ingrid (IRI/LDEO Climate data library)
- Giovanni (GSFC)
- Wood for Trees: Interactive graphics (temperatures)
- IPCC Data Visualisations
- Regional IPCC model output
- Climate Wizard
Master Repositories of Climate Data
Much bigger indexes of data sources:
- Global Change Master Directory (GSFC)
- PAGES data portal
- NCDC (National Climate Data Center)
- IPCC Data
- NCAR’s ClimateDataGuide
- Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Lab: Atmospheric trace gas concentrations, historical carbon emissions, and more
- CRU Data holdings
- Hadley Centre Observational holdings
- UCAR Climate Data Guide