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Last-modified: 28 Feb 1995

Recent changes:

  ==within last two weeks==

  ==within last four weeks==
Added http://www.nnic.noaa.gov/weather.html for NWS weather forecasts
  and Latin American/European observations
Added http://ns.noaa.gov/saa/homepage.html for Satellite Active Archive
Added http://ns.noaa.gov/NESDIS/NESDIS_Home.html for NESDIS home page
Added http://grads.iges.org/ for COLA home page, medium-range European
  and East Asian forecasts, GrADS software, etc.
Added ftp.csr.utexas.edu (ftp, www) site for sea level anomaly maps
Added http://www.hvu.nl/flood/ for info on Jan 1995 flood in the Netherlands
Corrected address for www.cs.indiana.edu



This is a guide to Internet sources of meteorological, oceanographic,
and geophysical data.  Contents:

 1)  Overview
 2)  How to get a current copy of this document
 3)  How to use this document
 4)  Topic Index
 5)  List of sites
 6)  How to use the data retrieval methods

Each (major) section has a "Subject:" line, so you can search on the
subject title above to find the section quickly.

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Subject:  Overview

This is part 1 of a guide to various sources of meteorological,
oceanographic, and geophysical data.  Some of these data sets are intended
for enjoyment or hobbyist use;  other data are more research-oriented.
Much of the research data is not free and is not directly available over
the network; usually, only information about this data is available, and
you must place an order for the actual data.

If you are looking for historical information for a US location, your
best bet would be to try the Regional Climate Center for the area of
interest.  Several have WWW pages or email contacts;  otherwise,
see the periodic posting with the subject "List of US State Climatologists"
for addresses and phone numbers of RCCs and State Climatologists, who
may also be able to help.  The list is also available by anonymous
FTP to ncardata.ucar.edu, file /catalogs/contacts/state_climatologists.

The contents of this series of FAQs are:

Part 1:  Meteorological data available via the Internet
Part 2:  Meteorological data available via tape, CD-ROM, and other media

The section on mailing lists which used to be included in this FAQ
is now a separate FAQ, "Mailing lists and newsgroups for meteorology".

This article is copyright (c) 1993,1994 by Ilana Stern.  It may be freely
distributed for non-commercial purposes only, provided that this copyright
notice and the instructions on retrieving a current copy are not
removed.  The information in this article is provided as-is, with no
warranties or assurances as to its accuracy.  I prefer that archives
maintain current copies, since this information changes rapidly.  If
you would like to put this article in an archive and want to receive
a new copy automatically at every update, please send me email.  I DO NOT
MAINTAIN A MAILING LIST SO PLEASE DON'T ASK FOR ME TO SEND YOU COPIES
AT EACH UPDATE UNLESS YOU ARE ARCHIVING IT FOR PUBLIC USAGE OR FURTHER
REDISTRIBUTION!

Corrections, additions, and comments should be sent to Ilana Stern at
[e-mail].  Please include in your message where you read
this document.  Note that if I know about it, it's in this document.

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Subject:  How to get a current copy of this document

If you are reading this document after 21 Mar 1995, you are reading an
outdated copy. A current copy can be obtained by anonymous FTP to
rtfm.mit.edu, from the file weather/data/part1 in the directory
/pub/usenet/news.answers.  These files are updated every two weeks,
when a new copy is posted to sci.geo.meteorology, news.answers,
and sci.answers.  This document also appears on the mailing lists
CLIMLIST and met-stud, which are described in the FAQ, "Mailing Lists
for Meteorology".

If you can't use FTP, send email to [e-mail] with
send /pub/usenet/news.answers/weather/data/part1
as the only text in the message (leave the subject blank).

Other sources for this document:
ftp://vmd.cso.uiuc.edu/wx/sources.zip
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/weather/top.html
  (in somewhat hypertext form!)

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Subject:  How to use this document

  As the amount of information available over the networks has been
increasing, so have the methods by which this information can be obtained.
No longer is direct usage of FTP the only, or even the most frequent, method
of obtaining data;  we now have Gopher, Wais, and WWW, as well as many
site-specific interfaces.  Because the information itself may be accessible
in many different ways, this FAQ will identify resources in terms of
URLs (Uniform Resource Locators).  This will also help convert this
FAQ to a hypertext document, so that it can be used with a WWW browser
to go directly to any of the listed sources.
  Here's a glossary, so you can decode the URLs if necessary to reach
the sites:

        ftp://host.name.domain/directory/[filename]     ftp site
        http://host.name.domain/directory/[filename]    www server
        telnet://host.name.domain                       telnet site
        gopher://host.name.domain                       gopher server
        wais://host.name.domain                         wais server
        news:newsgroup.name                             newsgroup

  So, for example, if a document is available at ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu/
it means that you should ftp to ncardata.ucar.edu, and the information is
in the top-level directory.
  If you don't know what these information retrieval methods are, see
the section "How to use the data retrieval methods".

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Subject: Topic Index

1) Current weather (satellite images)
2) Current weather and forecasts (maps, radar, soundings)
3) Current weather and forecasts (text)
4) Special event information (may be transient)
5) Other images
6) Map data
7) Research data and metadata
8) Software
9) Pointers to other resources
10) Education resources and institutional home pages
11) Oceanographic data
12) US Regional Climate Centers

This section lists the names and access protocol of sites of interest, with
a brief blurb as to their contents.  See section 5 for more information
about these sites.  Some sites appear more than once under different subject
headings.  Some sites have identical contents;  please use the site closest
to you.

1. Current weather (satellite images)

a) North America
b) Europe
c) Pacific
d) Other

a. North America

a1. Hourly GOES visible and IR (last few days)

ftp://early-bird.think.com/pub/weather/maps/
ftp://ftp.uwp.edu/pub/wx/
ftp://kestrel.umd.edu/pub/wx/
ftp://wmaps.aoc.nrao.edu/pub/wx/
ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/multimedia/images/wx/
ftp://wx.research.att.com/wx/
gopher://wx.atmos.uiuc.edu:70/11/Images/
gopher://metlab1.met.fsu.edu/11/images/
gopher://geograf1.sbs.ohio-state.edu/1/wxascii/gophergrafx/satpix/
http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/wxworld/html/satimg.html
afs://afs/athena.mit.edu/project/weather

a2. Daily full-disk GOES

gopher://gopher.ssec.wisc.edu:70/11/gsdc.d/

a3. Image archives (older images)

gopher://wx.atmos.uiuc.edu:70/11/Images/
gopher://nevado.srcc.lsu.edu/11/Images/GOES/
gopher://nevado.srcc.lsu.edu/11/Images/AVHRR/

a4. Other

ftp://ats.orst.edu/pub/weather/
  GOES vis/IR images of North, Central America
ftp://cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca/photos/
  GOES-7, NOAA-series images of central and eastern Canada (non-current)
ftp://uriacc.uri.edu/davet.195/ (VMS)
  NOAA-11 images of the northeast US
ftp://ftp.colorado.edu/pub/weather-images/
  Visible and IR images of the US
ftp://wilbur.stanford.edu/pub/weathergifs/
  Visible and IR images of the US
ftp://rainbow.physics.utoronto.ca/pub/sat_images/
  NOAA-11/12 mosaic images of North America
ftp://photo1.si.edu//More.Smithsonian.Stuff/nasm.planetarium/weather.gif/
  NOAA and other satellite images
ftp://snow.nohrsc.nws.gov/pub/jpg
  NOAA-10 and -11 AVHRR images of the US, Alaska and Canada
  false color composite of bands 1,3&4 in JPEG format
gopher://ashpool.micro.umn.edu/11/Weather/Maps/
  Visible and IR over North America
gopher://cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca/11/photos/
  GOES-7, NOAA-series images of central and eastern Canada (non-current)
gopher://downwind.sprl.umich.edu/11/Weather_Images
  US IR and vis GIF images
gopher://geograf1.sbs.ohio-state.edu/1/wxascii/gophergrafx/satpix
  Water vapor, enhanced infrared over US
gopher://meteor.atms.purdue.edu/
  GOES vis, IR, composites, enhanced images over US and Indiana
gopher://metlab1.met.fsu.edu/11/images/
  GOES 1.1 km vis images of Tallahassee, Orlando, Florida
gopher://grizzly.uwyo.edu/
  GOES vis, IR images of North America, western US, eastern US, plus floater
wais://quake.think.com:210/weather/
  Searchable weather index containing satellite maps
http://thunder.atms.purdue.edu/
  GOES vis, IR, composites, enhanced images over US and Indiana
http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/wxworld/html/satimg.html
  GOES vis and IR over North America, MPEG animations
http://www.ns.doe.ca/how.html
  Satellite photos over eastern Canada
http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/images.html
  SST off US east coast from high resolution NOAA polar orbiter
http://wwwcaps.uoknor.edu/Weather.html
  Everything you ever wanted to know about weather in Oklahoma
http://rs560.cl.msu.edu/weather/
  GOES visible and IR images over North America

b. Europe

ftp://ftp.met.ed.ac.uk/
  Meteosat vis/IR images, water vapour channel images of Europe
ftp://ftp.cs.nott.ac.uk/pub/sat-images/
  Meteosat vis/IR images of Europe, globe in gif format
ftp://ftp.sat.dundee.ac.uk/
  NOAA AVHRR images of Europe
ftp://liasun3.epfl.ch
  Meteosat vis/IR images of Europe
ftp://plaza.aarnet.edu.au
  Full-disk GMS vis/IR images
ftp://unicorn.nott.ac.uk/pub/sat-images/
 Meteosat vis/IR images of Europe, globe in jpeg format
ftp://wilbur.stanford.edu
  Meteosat vis/IR images of Europe, Africa in gif format
http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/english/Wetter/index.html
  Latest Meteosat vis/IR image of Europe, Africa in jpeg format
http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/
  NOAA AVHRR images of Europe
gopher://ashpool.micro.umn.edu/11/Weather/Maps
  UK, Europe, Scandinavian visible and IR
gopher://gopher.uni-bayreuth.de:70/11/Service/Meteosat/
  Meteosat vis/IR images of Europe
gopher://cognac-f.epfl.ch:70/11/Divers/meteo/
  Images of Europe
http://web.nexor.co.uk/users/jpo/weather/weather.html
  IR, vis images of Europe and N. Africa in gif and jpeg format
http://rs560.cl.msu.edu/weather/
  IR, vis images of Europe and N. Africa in gif and jpeg format
telnet://cspnsv.csp.it:5000/
  Meteosat images

c. Pacific

ftp://boa.gsfc.nasa.gov/Weather/gms/ (for use by east America, Europe)
  Full-disk GMS vis/IR hourly images in gif and hdf
ftp://ftp.gphs.vuw.ac.nz/pub/weather/pictures
  GMS images over New Zealand in JPEG format
ftp://ftp.jcu.edu.au/JCUMetSat/
  GMS-4 images of Australia, TOGA/COARE area
ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/pub/Weather/ (for use by west America)
  Full-disk GMS-4 vis/IR hourly images, GOES-7 half-hourly, GOES-8, in
  gif and hdf
ftp://plaza.aarnet.edu.au/Weather (for use by Australia, NZ, Asia)
  Full-disk GMS vis/IR hourly images in gif and hdf
ftp://hydro.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/data/noaa/
  Quick-look HRPT images of Japan, Pacific in pgm format
ftp://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/
  5-channel and SST data from AVHRR on NOAA-11, NOAA-12, full-disk and
  TOGA/COARE GMS-4 vis/IR hourly
ftp://wilbur.stanford.edu/
  Images of Australia, TOGA/COARE area in gif format
gopher://babel.ho.bom.gov.au/11/Australian%20Weather%20Information/Images
  Images of Australia
gopher://gopher.ncc.go.jp:70/11/INFO/weather/
  GMS and NOAA images of Japan and Pacific
gopher://nippori.tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
  Quick-look NOAA jpg images of Pacific -- archive back to November 1992
http://rs560.cl.msu.edu/weather/
  Full-disk GMS vis/IR hourly images in gif and hdf format
http://life.anu.edu.au:80/weather.html
  Various images & forecasts for Australia, world
http://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/
  5-channel and SST data from AVHRR on NOAA-11, NOAA-12, full-disk and
  TOGA/COARE GMS-4 vis/IR hourly
http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/images.html
  SST in NW Pacific from high resolution NOAA polar orbiter
http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/english/Wetter/index.html

d. Other

ftp://photo1.si.edu//More.Smithsonian.Stuff/nasm.planetarium/weather.gif/
  Images from various satellites
gopher://gopher.ssec.wisc.edu/70/
  Antarctic composite images, worldwide composite
gopher://geograf1.sbs.ohio-state.edu/1/wximages/antartica/sat/
  Satellite images over Antarctica
http://rs560.cl.msu.edu/weather/
  Antarctic composite images, worldwide composite
http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/images.html
  SST in various places from high resolution NOAA polar orbiter


2. Current weather and forecasts (maps, radar, soundings)

a. US maps:  6-panel, UA, surface

ftp://early-bird.think.com/pub/weather/maps/
ftp://ftp.uwp.edu/pub/wx/
ftp://kestrel.umd.edu/pub/wx/
ftp://wmaps.aoc.nrao.edu/pub/wx/
ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/multimedia/images/wx/

b. Other

ftp://cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca/maps/
  Canadian weather map (in French or English) (not current)
ftp://ftp.colorado.edu/pub/weather-images/
  Surface analyses, radar summaries, soundings for various locations
ftp://kestrel.umd.edu/pub/wx/
  Surface maps for Alaska, US regions (see files 00<name>)
ftp://unidata.ucar.edu/images/
  Surface analyses, radar summaries, meteorgrams, skewT for various locations
telnet://wind.atmos.uah.edu:3000/
  Surface T, SLP, radar, wind, surface data for US and S.E. US (using WXP)
gopher://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu:70/
  Surface & upper air analyses, forecasts, meteorgrams for Vermont, N.E. US
gopher://cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca/11/maps/
  Canadian weather map (in French or English) (not current)
gopher://downwind.sprl.umich.edu/11/Weather_Images
  Current Asian, European, South American temperatures and precipitation
gopher://geograf1.sbs.ohio-state.edu/1/wxascii/gophergrafx/surface
  Surface analyses for Ohio, US, Antarctica, Alaska
gopher://mcidas.uncc.edu/1mcidas.70
  Southeast US skew-T, meteorgrams, mesoscale analyses, upper-air plots
gopher://meteor.atms.purdue.edu/
  Surface & upper air analyses, forecast model output, radar, skewT,
  meteorgrams for US states
gopher://metlab1.met.fsu.edu/
  Radar summaries, upper air plots, soundings, for US states;  surface
  plots for US states, Canada, Caribbean
gopher://grizzly.uwyo.edu/
  Four-panel US maps from forecast models, meteorgrams, forecasts for US
  states, regional surface maps, radar
gopher://unidata.ucar.edu:70/11/Images/
  Surface analyses, radar summaries, meteorgrams, skewT for various locations
gopher://vortex.weather.brockport.edu/11/
  Forecast model output (ECMWF, NMC), Oswego lake effect model output images
gopher://wx.atmos.uiuc.edu:70/11/Images/
  Six-panel US maps (various variables), UA and surface maps (US, Canada)
http://nyx10.cs.du.edu:8001/~anon0f5f/weathernet.html
  Various weather maps for North America
http://aristarchus.rutgers.edu/weather.html
  Weather map with radar (US) (updated every 20 minutes!):
http://grads.iges.org/pix/head.html
  Short range North American forecasts, medium-range temp and precip forecasts
  for North America, Europe, East Asia, current US weather images
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/weather/panels.html
  Six-panel US maps
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/weather/surface.html
  Current surface weather map
http://java.meteor.wisc.edu/index.html
  VIS-5D datasets and GIF images of current 48 hour North America and
  US forecasts
http://rs560.cl.msu.edu/weather/
  Six-panel US maps (various weather variables), radar maps
http://thunder.atms.purdue.edu/
  Surface & upper air analyses, forecast model output, radar, skewT,
  meteorgrams for US states
http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/wxworld/html/top.html
  Surface and upper air analyses, 6-panel maps, soundings, forecast model
  output for US and US regions
http://www.etl.noaa.gov/OTHdata.html
  Near-real-time images of surface winddirection for the North Atlantic Ocean
http://www.mit.edu:8001/weather/
  Surface analysis for US, plus forecasts
http://www.ns.doe.ca/how.html
  Maps and radar images of eastern Canada


3. Current weather and forecasts (text)

A. Weather Undergrounds (US/Canada fcsts, global reports, ski conds, severe wx)
B. Other North American forecasts
C. Forecasts elsewhere

a. Weather Undergrounds (US/Canada fcsts, global reports, ski conds, severe wx)

gopher://downwind.sprl.umich.edu/11/Weather_Text
telnet://downwind.sprl.umich.edu:3000/
telnet://hermes.merit.edu/
telnet://measun.nrrc.ncsu.edu:3000/
telnet://thunder.met.fsu.edu:3000/
telnet://vortex.weather.brockport.edu:3000/
telnet://wind.atmos.uah.edu:3000/

b. Other North American current weather and forecasts

ftp://ats.orst.edu/pub/weather/
  Some US city and Oregon weather forecasts
ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu/pub/weather/
  Colorado weather forecasts
telnet://duat2.wtp.gtefsd.com
  Aviation weather -- pilots only
telnet://empire.cce.cornell.edu
  Climate data and information (login "guest"), select "Weather" then "CLIMOD"
telnet://nevado.srcc.lsu.edu
  Observations and forecasts for US
telnet://shelley.ca.uky.edu
  Zone forecasts for US States, central US river stage forecasts,
  detailed Kentucky information (login "kyag")
gopher://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu:70/
  Forecasts and summaries for US as whole, N.E. US
gopher://ashpool.micro.umn.edu/11/Weather/
  Current weather and forecasts for US, Canada
gopher://geograf1.sbs.ohio-state.edu/
  Forecasts for US, Canada, Caribbean;  severe weather, NMC products, tropical
  observations and forecasts, marine and aviation weather
gopher://gopher.atmos.albany.edu
  Forecasts and other weather products for eastern New York State
gopher://gopherpc.abrfc.noaa.gov/
  River stage forecasts for Arkansas-Red River Basin (central US)
gopher://mcidas.uncc.edu/
  Many National Weather Service products for Southeast US
gopher://metlab1.met.fsu.edu/11/weather
  Florida weather and forecasts
gopher://nevado.srcc.lsu.edu/
  Observations and forecasts for south central US states
gopher://ns.noaa.gov/
  US city and state forecasts
gopher://owl.nstn.ns.ca/
  Canadian forecasts
gopher://shelley.ca.uky.edu/11/.weather
  Zone forecasts for US States, central US river stage forecasts,
  detailed Kentucky information
gopher://swami.tamu.edu/
  Agricultural weather forecasts and reports for southern US, esp. Texas
gopher://vortex.weather.brockport.edu/
  Current weather at SUNY brockport, US forecasts
gopher://wx.atmos.uiuc.edu:70/
  Current weather and forecasts for US, Canada, Caribbean
http://www.hawaii.edu/News/weather.html
  Forecasts and surf conditions in Hawaii
http://rs560.cl.msu.edu/weather/
  Current weather and forecast for Lansing, MI
http://swami.tamu.edu/
  Agricultural weather forecasts and reports for southern US, esp. Texas
http://www.mit.edu:8001/weather/
  Current weather and forecasts for US cities
http://www.nnic.noaa.gov/weather.html
  NWS forecasts for US regions, cities, states.
http://www.ns.doe.ca/how.html
  Regional weather forecasts for eastern Canada

c. Current weather and forecasts elsewhere

ftp://bssiaa.nbs.ac.uk/pub/metlog/
  Antarctic surface weather conditions, about a day delay
telnet://vicbeta.vic.bom.gov.au:55555/
  Australian weather observations and forecasts
gopher://babel.ho.bom.gov.au/11/Australian%20Weather%20Information
  Australian weather summaries, forecasts, warnings
gopher://gopher.ncc.go.jp:70/11/INFO/weather/
  Japan weather forecasts (in Kanji)
gopher://tortel.dcc.uchile.cl:70/
  Chilean weather forecasts (in Spanish)
http://milkman.cac.psu.edu/~reh113/index.html
  Offshore weather data (global)
http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/deutsch/Wetter/meldungen.html
  Berlin weather (in German)
http://www.nnic.noaa.gov/weather.html
  NWS observations for Latin America and Europe


4. Special event information (may be transient)

A. Still images
B. Movies
C. Text

a. Still images

ftp://unidata.ucar.edu/images/
  Images of hurricanes Emily, Hugo, Beryl, Kevin
ftp://ats.orst.edu/pub/weather/
  Hurricane Andrew and Emily images
ftp://ftp.colorado.edu/pub/weather-images/hurricane.andrew
  Hurricane Andrew images and weather maps
ftp://ftp.colorado.edu/pub/weather-images/hurricane.emily
  Hurricane Emily images and weather maps
ftp://ftp.met.fsu.edu/pub/hurricane_Andrew
  Hurricane Andrew images
ftp://snow.nohrsc.nws.gov/
  "Blizzard of 93", midwest flood, Malibu fires smoke plume jpeg images
ftp://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/gumley/
  Midwest flood images
ftp://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/pub/spectactular
  Hurricane Fernanda images
ftp://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/pub/avhrr/images
  Hurricanes John, Emilia and Fabio
gopher://downwind.sprl.umich.edu/11/Weather_Archives/
  Blizzard of 93, hurricanes Andrew, Hugo, Emily, Elena;  tornado paths
gopher://wx.atmos.uiuc.edu:70/11/Images/Hurricane%20Emily/
  Hurricane Emily track (gif and ps) and image
gopher://unidata.ucar.edu:70/11/Images/
  Images of hurricanes Emily, Hugo, Beryl, Kevin
http://www.hawaii.edu/News/news.html
  Worldwide tropical storm track gif images
http://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/fernanda.html
  Hurricane Fernanda images
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/weather.html
  California fires, hurricane Emily track
http://www.sel.bldrdoc.gov/images/eclipse.html
  Images of May 10, 1994 annular eclipse

b. Movies

ftp://earthsun.umd.edu/JEI/GOES
  "Blizzard of 93" movie in .flc format
ftp://sumex-aim.stanford.edu/pub/info-mac/art/qt/
  Quicktime (for Macintosh) movie of "Blizzard of 93"
gopher://ageninfo.tamu.edu/11/eclipse
  MPEG of GOES-7 and GOES-8 images during May 10 1994 eclipse
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/weather.html
  Hurricane Emily movies (mpg)
http://ageninfo.tamu.edu/eclipse/
  MPEG of GOES-7 and GOES-8 images during May 10 1994 eclipse

c. Text

ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/DMSP/SERVICES/WEEKLY/TCYCLONE
  Tropical Cyclone Weekly summary
ftp://nic.fb4.noaa.gov/pub/cac
  CAC ENSO advisories and indices, monthly mean and anomaly fields
gopher://cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca/11/climate/nino/
  CAC ENSO advisories and indices (CMAF climate monitoring)
http://www.hvu.nl/flood/
  Reports and information on Jan 1995 flood in the Netherlands
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/weekly.html
  Tropical Cyclone Weekly summary
http://www.sel.bldrdoc.gov/
  Space weather (magnetic and solar)
http://server.uwindsor.ca:8000/~fung6/tn.html
  Northwest Pacific tropical cyclone storm track info


5. Other images

ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/SPACE/CDROM/
  Various earth-from-space images
ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/pub/cdrom/
  Viking, Magellan, Voyager images from CD-ROMs
ftp://snow.nohrsc.nws.gov/
  Snow cover maps of US derived from GOES and AVHRR
ftp://sseop.jsc.nasa.gov/
  Pictures taken from the space shuttle in bitmap format
gopher://downwind.sprl.umich.edu/11/Weather_Archives/Clouds/
  Images of Whole earth, various types of clouds
telnet://sanddunes.scd.ucar.edu/
  AVHRR images of USA
http://ns.noaa.gov/saa/homepage.html
  Real-time and historical satellite data from NOAA's Polar-orbiting
  Operational Environmental Satellites (POES)
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/sircxsar.html
  SIR-C/X-SAR space radar images of Earth
http://www.sel.bldrdoc.gov/
  Space weather (magnetic and solar), current solar images


6. Map data

ftp://ftp.csn.org/COGS/
  Mapping software and datasets
ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu/
  Elevation data
ftp://spectrum.xerox.com/pub/map/
  Various USGS data
gopher://ageninfo.tamu.edu/11/apl-us
  Shaded relief map of USA generated from 30 arc second DEM dataset
http://ageninfo.tamu.edu/apl-us/
  Shaded relief map of USA generated from 30 arc second DEM dataset
http://walleye.forestry.umn.edu:70/0/www/main.html
  University of Minnesota remote sensing lab (choose GIS information)
http://dutlru8.lr.tudelft.nl
  Sea surface altimetry atlas computed from satellite data
http://www.ucar.edu/dss/geo.html
  Elevation data, vegetation data


7. Research data and metadata

a) Primary data centers
b) Other sites

a. Primary data centers

ftp://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/pub
  Data and information from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/
  NGDC datasets, CD-ROM information
ftp://ftppodaac.jpl.nasa.gov/
  Info on datasets available from the JPL Physical Oceanography Distributed
  Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC)
ftp://hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data
  Info on datasets available from NCDC, some data
ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu/
  Info on datasets available from NCAR, some small datasets directly available
ftp://nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov/
  Info on NSSDC datasets and global change data
telnet://eosdis.larc.nasa.gov
  Info on datasets available from EOSDIS (login "ims", password "larcims")
telnet://esdim1.nodc.noaa.gov
  Info on datasets, satellites, sensors (login "NOAADIR")
telnet://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov
  Access to the Global Change Master Directory (login "gcdir")
telnet://glis.cr.usgs.gov
  Info on datasets available from USGS
telnet://hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov
  Info on datasets available from NCDC (login "storm", password "research")
telnet://nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov
  Info on NSSDC datasets
telnet://santa.asf.alaska.edu
  Info on and data from SAR satellites (login "ACSUSER", password "ALASKASAR")
gopher://140.90.5.206/
  Information from the National Weather Service about changes to data
  formats and transmissions
gopher://esdim1.esdim.noaa.gov/11/NOAA_systems
  Links to NOAA gopher and telnet sites
gopher://gopher.ngdc.noaa.gov/
  NGDC datasets, CD-ROM information
gopher://gopher.nodc.noaa.gov/
  Connections to various government agencies:  NOAA, NIST, EPA, DOE, etc.
wais://ridgisd.er.usgs.gov
  DOE_Climate_Data.src: Contains info about climate data sets
http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov
  Access to the Global Change Master Directory
http://info.er.usgs.gov/
  United States Geological Survey (USGS)
http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/pub/info/holdings.html
  On-line data from USGS Global Change Research Program -- mean SST and sea ice
http://ns.noaa.gov/NESDIS/NESDIS_Home.html
  NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service)
http://seazar.jpl.nasa.gov/
  Info on datasets available from the JPL Physical Oceanography Distributed
  Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC)
http://starhawk.jpl.nasa.gov/pds_home.html
  Info and data from NASA planetary missions and experiments
http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/
  Info on data available from NOAA's Climate Diagnostics Center
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/
  National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) home page, info about datasets
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ngdc.html
  National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), info about datasets
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/dmsp.html
  Info about, and sample data from Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov/
  Snow cover measurements in US, Canada
http://www.sel.bldrdoc.gov/
  Info about data products from NOAA's Space Environment Laboratory
http://www.ucar.edu/metapage.html
  National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), info and small datasets
http://www.wrc.noaa.gov/pmelhome.html
  NOAA's Pacific Marine Environment Lab data
http://wwwdaac.msfc.nasa.gov/
  Info on datasets available from the Marshall Space Flight Center
  Distributed Active Archive Center (MSFC.DAAC)

b. Other sites

ftp://192.67.134.72/pub/
  Some NOAA and NCDC data
ftp://aprf.arl.mil/pub/profiles/
  Real-time wind and temperature profiles from White Sands, NM, USA
ftp://ccg.cmdl.erl.gov/pub/
  Carbon dioxide and methane observations from cooperative network
ftp://cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca/climate/nino/
  CAC ENSO advisories and indices
ftp://diamond.ssec.wisc.edu/
  GOES Pathfinder dataset
ftp://ftp.csr.utexas.edu/pub/sst/gifs
  Monthly averaged global sea level anomaly maps
ftp://hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/blizzard
  Data from East coast blizzard
ftp://jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/nimbus7
  Nimbus-7 TOMS ozone data (not publication quality)
ftp://jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/meteor3
  Meteor-3 TOMS ozone data (not publication quality)
ftp://atlantic.ocean.fsu.edu/pub/
  East coast tidal heights and winds
ftp://downdry.atmos.colostate.edu/
  Atlantic and Northeast/North-central Pacific tropical cyclone track data
ftp://nasagiss.giss.nasa.gov/
  Cloud, SST, surface T, vegetation data
ftp://nic.fb4.noaa.gov/pub/cac
  CAC ENSO advisories and indices, monthly mean and anomaly fields
ftp://server.ices.inst.dk/dist/ocean
  Oceanographic codes and inventories (for PC)
ftp://srv1rvares.er.usgs.gov/hcdn92/
  Streamflow data from USGS
telnet://kuda.atd.ucar.edu
  Kuwait oil fire (1991) data from NCAR (login "kuda", password "science")
telnet://storm.ofps.ucar.edu
  STORM-FEST data, link to NCDC (login "storm", password "research")
gopher://cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca/11/climate/nino/
  CAC ENSO advisories and indices (CMAF climate monitoring)
gopher://diamond.ssec.wisc.edu/
  GOES Pathfinder dataset
gopher://diu.cms.udel.edu/
  Ocean Information Center -- info on WOCE, TOGA/COARE, other ocean data
gopher://nx1.soils.umn.edu:70/
  U. Minnesota Soil Science Department/Climatology Working Group
http://aprf.arl.mil/aprf.html
  Real-time wind and temperature profiles from White Sands, NM, USA
http://ftp.csr.utexas.edu/sst.html
  Monthly averaged global sea level anomaly maps
http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/MODIS/MAS/Home.html
  Information about the MODIS Airborne Simulator multispectral scanner
http://diu.cms.udel.edu/
  Ocean Information Center -- info on WOCE, TOGA/COARE, other ocean data
http://graupel.mit.edu/Radar_Lab.html
  Information about MIT radar lab, and data archive metadata
http://ns.noaa.gov/saa/homepage.html
  Real-time and historical satellite data from NOAA's Polar-orbiting
  Operational Environmental Satellites (POES)
http://rainbow.ldgo.columbia.edu/
  Climate datasets, bibliographies, ENSO forecast
http://thunder.atms.purdue.edu:80/toga_atlas/
  Climatology of the TOGA-COARE and Adjacent Regions
http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/SO/Deckblatt.html
  Alfred Wegener Institute's Hydrographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean
http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/MET/Neumayer/met.html
  Observations from German Antarctic Station Neumayer (70#37'S, 8#22'W)
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/upload/blizzard
  Data from East coast blizzard (alias of hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov)
http://www.service.uit.no/geofysisk/geofysisk.html
  Some magnetometer and meteorological data for Adventdalen, Norway
http://www-ccs.ucsd.edu/ccs/about_datazoo.html
  Oceanographic data from Scripps Institute's Center for Coastal Studies
http://xtreme.gsfc.nasa.gov
  AVHRR Land Pathfinder Data Set information
wais://ridgisd.er.usgs.gov/
  NOAA_National_Environmental_Referral_Service.src


8. Software

ftp://192.67.134.72/pub/software/
  Various software, including skew-T and hodograph
ftp://acoustics.whoi.edu/public/Matlab/oceans
  Various oceanography-related Matlab stuff
ftp://archive.afit.af.mil/pub/space/
  NORAD (TLE) for NOAA sats, tide code
ftp://atlantic.ocean.fsu.edu/pub/Tides/
  Tide code (shareware) for IBM-PC compatible
ftp://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/wiscombe/
  Mie code, discrete ordinate code, thermo code
ftp://ftp.met.ed.ac.uk/calmet/
  Software for computer-aided learning (CALMET)
ftp://ftp.erc.msstate.edu/pub/griblib.tar.Z
  GRIB decode in C
ftp://ftp.geog.ubc.ca/pub/jas.latex.dir
  LaTex Style file for JAS
ftp://ftp.met.fsu.edu/
  Data analysis software
ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/
  Code and format description for HDF
ftp://ftp.ucar.edu/ccm
  Code for the NCAR/CGD Community Climate Model
ftp://ftpnssl.nssl.uoknor.edu/pub/skaggs
  Humidity-wind chill-heat index program, sunrise calculation program
ftp://hydro.princeton.edu/stamm/energy.budget/
  Software for insolation, energy budget
ftp://iris.ssec.wisc.edu/pub/
  Vis5D and VisAD software for scientific visualization
ftp://kaja.gi.alaska.edu/pub/arv/uvspec-1.01.tar.z
  Software suite for UV and visible flux calculation
ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu/datasets/ds111.2/software
  GRIB decode in Fortran
ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu/libraries/SkewT
  Skew T - log P charting software
ftp://server.ices.inst.dk/dist/ocean
  Oceanography-related software for PC
gopher://downwind.sprl.umich.edu/
  Air pollution model software, other?
http://grads.iges.org/grads/head.html
  GrADS (Grid Analysis and Display System) software and documentation

9. Pointers to other resources

ftp://ftp.csn.org/COGS/ores.txt
  Information on other Internet resources
ftp://ftp.met.fsu.edu/pub/Internet_info/
  Internet resource info
gopher://esdim1.esdim.noaa.gov/11/NOAA_systems
  Links to NOAA gopher and telnet sites
gopher://downwind.sprl.umich.edu/
  Resources for curriculum materials
http://eru.dd.chalmers.se/~f88jl/CFD/cfd_online.html
  Resources for Computational Fluid Dynamics
http://hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov/NASA_homepage.html
  NASA system-wide WWW server (choose LARC server for more resources)
http://info.er.usgs.gov/network/index.html
  Hypertext network resources for science (assembled by USGS)
http://life.anu.edu.au:80/weather.html
  Various images & forecasts for Australia, world;  also other resources
http://nyx10.cs.du.edu:8001/~anon0f5f/weathernet.html
  North American weather links, other pointers and maps
http://sci-ed.fit.edu/wx.html
  Pointers to many of these meteorological data sources
http://walleye.forestry.umn.edu:70/0/www/rsgisinfo/rsgis.html
  Pointers to GIS and remote sensing sites
http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/
  A variety of resources for the atmospheric science community
http://www.eskimo.com/~jgriffin/weather.html
  Pointers to many of these meteorological data sources
http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/DataSources/MetIndex.html
  Pointers to many of these meteorological data sources
http://www.mth.uea.ac.uk/climateinfo.html
  Pointers to oceanography, meteorological, general physical science resources
http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov/other.html
  Pointers to weather, ocean, remote sensing sites
http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/sio/inst/index.html
  Oceanographic & Earth Science Data Services & Institutions
http://www.whoi.edu/html/www-servers/oceanography.html
  Oceanography WWW Servers
http://www.esdim.noaa.gov/ocean_page.html
  Oceanography Resources on the Internet
http://www-ccs.ucsd.edu/src_oceanography.html
  Oceanography Information Servers
http://zia.geog.buffalo.edu/GIAL/netgeog.html
  Hypertext resource information, mostly for geography


10. Education resources and institutional home pages

ftp://ftp.met.ed.ac.uk/calmet/
  Software for computer-aided learning (CALMET)
http://faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu/WEATHER/weather.html
  Thematic unit for weather for grades 2-4
http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/
  Alfred Wegener Institute
http://www.etl.noaa.gov/
  NOAA Environmental Technology Laboratory
http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/CIRA
  CIRA (Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere) home page
http://www.nssl.uoknor.edu/
  National Severe Storms Laboratory home page
http://www.ns.doe.ca/how.html
  Environment Canada home page, including texts of educational publications
http://www.water.ca.gov/
  California Department of Water Resources home page
http://wwwcaps.uoknor.edu/
  Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS) home page


11. Oceanographic data

ftp://acoustics.whoi.edu/public/Matlab/oceans
  Various oceanography-related Matlab stuff
ftp://archive.afit.af.mil/pub/space/
  Tide code
ftp://atlantic.ocean.fsu.edu/pub/Tides/
  Tide code (shareware) for IBM-PC compatible
ftp://ftppodaac.jpl.nasa.gov/
  Info on datasets available from the JPL Physical Oceanography Distributed
  Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC)
ftp://server.ices.inst.dk/dist/ocean
  Oceanography-related software for PC
http://diu.cms.udel.edu/
  Ocean Information Center -- info on WOCE, TOGA/COARE, other ocean data
http://dutlru8.lr.tudelft.nl
  Sea surface altimetry atlas computed from satellite data
http://milkman.cac.psu.edu/~reh113/index.html
  Offshore weather data including water temp and wave heights
http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/sio/inst/index.html
  Oceanographic & Earth Science Data Services & Institutions
http://seazar.jpl.nasa.gov/
  Info on datasets available from the JPL Physical Oceanography Distributed
  Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC)
http://www.aodc.gov.au/AODC.html
  Australian Oceanographic Data Centre server
http://www.mth.uea.ac.uk/climateinfo.html
  Pointers to oceanography, meteorological, general physical science resources
http://www.esdim.noaa.gov/ocean_page.html
  Oceanography Resources on the Internet
http://www.whoi.edu/html/www-servers/oceanography.html
  Oceanography WWW Servers
http://www.wrc.noaa.gov/pmelhome.html
  NOAA's Pacific Marine Environment Lab data
http://www-ccs.ucsd.edu/
  The Center for Coastal Studies at Scripps Institute


12. US Regional Climate Centers

http://met-www.cit.cornell.edu/nrcc_home.html
  Northeast RCC
http://water.dnr.state.sc.us:/www/sercc/sercc.html
  Southeast RCC
http://maestro.srcc.lsu.edu/srcc.html
  Southern RCC
http://hpccsun.unl.edu/
  High Plains RCC

Subject:  List of sites

This section provides expanded listings of the sites in the previous
section.  Remember to set the transfer type to "binary" when retrieving
images!

140.90.5.206                        (Gopher)
  National Weather Service Telecommunications Gateway.  Provides
information about data transmissions and formats.  Also connects to
esdim1.esdim.noaa.gov, which can be used to connect to the various
NOAA gopher and telnet sites.

192.67.134.72                        (FTP)
  Some NOAA and NCDC (and other NOAA subagencies?) datasets and
software, in the /pub directory.

acoustics.whoi.edu                    (FTP)
  Rich Pawlowicz's Matlab oceanography toolbox.  Includes equations
for physical properties of seawater, some geographical functions,
and plotting routines.  For use with Matlab 4.1. ([e-mail])

ageninfo.tamu.edu                    (Gopher, WWW)
  Dept. of Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University server.
Contains Digital Relief Map of USA based on 30 arc second DEM data,
and other resources.  Also has MPEGS of the May 10 1994 eclipse from
GOES-7 and GOES-8.

ames.arc.nasa.gov    [128.102.18.3]            (FTP)
  The SPACE directory has been moved to explorer.arc.nasa.gov.

apollo.lsc.vsc.edu 70                    (Gopher)
(LYNDON STATE COLLEGE, VT/Department of Meteorology)
  Text products and McIdas weather images, including surface plots of the
Northeast, meteograms and skew-T plots of ALB, PWM, and BTV, US satellite
imagery, NGM forecast data, upper-air plots, and more.

aprf.arl.mil        [155.148.12.200]        (FTP, WWW)
  Real-time, hour-averaged, qc'd, surface to stratosphere profiles of wind,
temperature, and optical/radar turbulence from the Atmospheric Profiler
Research Facility, White Sands, New Mexico.  Change directory to
"/pub/profiler".  Data is available in tabular format in the subdirectory
"hourly-profiles" and in graphical format in the subdirectory
"hourly-profiles/images".
  This information is also available via WWW on this site at aprf.html.
  For further information, see the README, or e-mail to:
[e-mail] or [e-mail].

archive.afit.af.mil                    (FTP)
  NORAD "Two-line Element"(TLE) data for the NOAA satellites series
in directory "pub/space".  Also, TIDES216.zip tide calc shareware.

aristarchus.rutgers.edu                    (WWW)
  US Weather map with radar.  (Currently doesn't appear to be active.)

ashpool.micro.umn.edu                     (Gopher)
(National Weather Service Forecasts)
  Weather forecasts by state.

atlantic.ocean.fsu.edu    [128.186.3.39]            (FTP)
  East coast tidal heights and winds in "pub/Tidedata", QuickBasic
IBM-PC shareware to compute tides and currents in "pub/Tides", Luyten
& Stommel oceanographic atlas in "pub/LiveAtlas", and other related
items.  For information contact [e-mail].

athena.mit.edu                        (AFS)
(/afs/sites/athena.mit.edu/project/weather)
  Contains images from wx.atmos.uiuc.edu in various subdirectories (SATELLITE,
SURFACE, etc.).  The most recent images are flagged with the name 'latest'
so you can easily find them.  There's also an animation program.  Contact
[e-mail] for more info.

ats.orst.edu          [128.193.120.19]        (FTP)
  GOES IR and VIS images over North and Central America, plus a "floater"
image which "could be anything."  Also Oregon and US city forecasts.

babel.ho.bom.gov.au                    (Gopher)
  Satellite images of Australia, and text weather forecasts and
warnings for all states and territories.  Includes connections to
other weather resources.

boa.gsfc.nasa.gov    [128.183.93.16]            (FTP)
  Same GMS images as explorer.arc.nasa.gov;  this site should be used by
East Coast and European sites.

bssiaa.nbs.ac.uk                    (FTP)
  Change directory to "/pub/metlog/".  Antarctic surface weather conditions,
about a day delay, in synoptic_view.yy_mm_yy_xxZ.  00README.html gives

ccg.cmdl.erl.gov                    (FTP)
   NOAA/CMDL flask monitoring network for carbon dioxide (CO2) and
methane (CH4) atmospheric concentrations.  Data is from many monitoring
sites.  Also in-situ continuous CO2 data from CMDL observatories.
Change directory to /pub/co2 or /pub/ch4.

cdiac.esd.ornl.gov     [128.219.24.36]          (FTP)
  Contains data and information on general and technical aspects of
carbon dioxide, methane, and other trace gas emissions; the carbon cycle;
and other climate-change topics from CDIAC (the Carbon Dioxide Information
Analysis Center, address in section 3).  The data for CDIAC's "Trends 91:
A Compendium of Data on Global Change" is also available here.  (Contact
CDIAC at [e-mail] to obtain a copy of the book.)

climate.gsfc.nasa.gov    [128.183.46.16]            (FTP, WWW)
  The directory "pub/wiscombe" contains various software of interest in
several subdirectories, including Mie code by Warren Wiscombe, discrete
ordinates radiative transfer code, and atmospheric thermodynamics code.
  Also, cloud-free images of midwest flooding in directory "pub/gumley".

cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca    [142.97.22.42]            (Gopher, FTP, WWW)
(Ontario Climate Gopher)
  Atmospheric Environment Service (Canada) site containing CAC (Climate
Analysis Center) ENSO advisories updated monthly (between the 10th and
15th), and CAC ENSO indices in the directory "climate/nino".  Also
has (non-current) Canadian weather maps, satellite photos (mostly Ontario
and eastern Canada), and forecasts (mostly Ontario);  hopefully, these
will be updated in the future.
  This site is also accessible via a WWW browser by opening the URL
http://cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca/, but apart from the addition of "Climate
Perspectives" (which is apparently under construction), this link
just links to the gopher service.

cspnsv.csp.it 5000                    (Telnet)
  Include the "5000" when connecting to the machine.  This runs a program,
"METEO-WINDOW" on a Cray, with a remote graphics display on your machine.
The first time, you will be asked to send mail to [e-mail] with
the numerical address of your graphics terminal (must be running X-windows).
METEO-WINDOW displays Meteosat satellite images and weather information
of general interest (in English) and of the Piedmont, Italy region (in
Italian).  For more information contact [e-mail].

diamond.ssec.wisc.edu    [144.92.108.49]            (FTP, Gopher)
  The GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) Pathfinder
Data Set was generated at SSEC using full resolution GOES imagery from the
Geostationary National Archive.  Includes 8 km products, 70 km equal area
statistics products, 24 km browse of the 8 km products, and 9 panel browse
of the 70 km statistics from May 4, 1987 through November 30, 1988
(Benchmark Period):
  For more information, contact [e-mail].

diu.cms.udel.edu    [128.175.24.6]            (WWW, Gopher)
  OCEANIC, the Ocean Information Center, contains information
about data collected for both the World Ocean Circulation Experiment
(WOCE) and the Tropical Oceans and Global Atmosphere Coupled
Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA COARE). In addition OCEANIC has a
searchable international research ship schedule database, a searchable
directory of names/addresses/e-mail of scientists involved in WOCE and
numerous links to WOCE data facilities and other oceanographic
information systems. This system is still in an evolutionary phase but
is for the most part fully functional. For more information, questions,
comments, etc. please e-mail [e-mail] or call
[phone].

downdry.atmos.colostate.edu    [129.82.107.154]    (FTP)
  Atlantic basin tropical cyclone best track data, 1886-1993.  Every 6
hour intensity and position information (files ending .atl). Also,
Northeast/North-central Pacific tropical storm and hurricane data
(1949-1993) (files ending .epc).
  Provided by [e-mail] (Chris Landsea).

downwind.sprl.umich.edu 3000    [141.212.196.177]    (Telnet, Gopher)
  Include the "3000" when connecting to the machine.  This is the University
of Michigan's Weather Underground, a menu driven system which has a large
variety of information, including US and Canadian weather forecasts, ski
conditions, earthquake reports, severe weather reports, and current weather
conditions for some international cities.
  This machine is also accessible by gopher (omit the 3000 when connecting).
The same information is available, along with other educationally-oriented
information.

duat2.wtp.gtefsd.com    [131.131.7.106]            (Telnet)
  This service has become restricted to pilots only beginning October 1994.
Various weather products are available including SA, UA, and severe weather
info.  Hit '?' for help whenever you are confused by a prompt.
  DUATS can also be accessed directly by 1-800-767-9989 at 9600 baud.

early-bird.think.com    [131.239.2.1]            (FTP)
  Mirror site for vmd.cso.uiuc.edu in pub/weather/maps.

earthsun.umd.edu    [132.178.15.9]            (FTP)
  Change directory to "/JEI/GOES".  48-hour sequence derived from
GOES IR images is in the file "storm.zip" which was compressed with
PKZIP 2.04.  It is a 640x480 .FLC file and thus requires either running the
sequence on a UNIX box or on a DOS machine with a SVGA card that is
moderately VESA compatible with 512K RAM.  PLAY79.EXE (for DOS) is
available on the same site; xanim (for Unix) is available from
cs.orst.edu (/pub/src/printers/xanim/xanim.tar.Z) and other sites.
(For more info contact Christopher Keane, [e-mail].)

empire.cce.cornell.edu                    (Telnet)
  CLIMOD system access.  Login as "guest" and select "Weather" and
then "CLIMOD" for climate information including monthly precipitation
and temperature, Palmer Drought indices.

eosdis.larc.nasa.gov        [192.107.191.17]    (Telnet)
  The Langley Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) archives and
distributes Radiation Budget, Cloud, Aerosol, and Tropospheric Chemistry
Data to the general science community.  Data are available via FTP, tape
and CD-ROM.  Users can use telnet to the DAAC IMS (Information Management
System) to place an order.  The IMS features a graphical user interface,
so you must have an X window or Sun OpenWindows display.  (You can contact
DAAC by telephone or email as well -- see section III.)
  Use 'ims' as the login and 'larcims' as the password.  For more
information contact Sue Sorlie ([e-mail]).

esdim1.nodc.noaa.gov    [140.90.235.10]            (Telnet, Gopher)
  Login as "NOAADIR".  Menu-driven system will let you select datasets
from various government sources according to search parameters, and will
give you contact addresses and other information on them.  You can also
get information about satellites, sensors, and research experiments.
  Can also be accessed as a gopher site;  it will present a menu with
links to the NOAA telnet and gopher sites.

explorer.arc.nasa.gov        [128.102.32.18]        (FTP)
  Visible and IR hourly GMS-4 images in gif format (neat pictures, may be
enhanced), and in hdf format (raw, intended for research), in the directory
"pub/Weather/GMS-4".  Resolution is 5 km so images are 2-3 MB in size.
The hdf files have navigation information included.  The "pub/Weather/GOES-7"
directory contains half-hourly visible and IR GOES-7 images in gif and hdf
formats; the IR data is 8 km resolution and the VIS is a very large 4 km
resolution.  Also, "pub/Weather/GOES-8" now contains GOES-8 images.
  For more information contact [e-mail]
(Milo S. Medin).
  The directory "cdrom" contains Viking, Magellan, and Voyager data, and
the directory "pub/SPACE" contains various earth-from-space images and
information.
  This site is for users "near" California;  East Coast US and European
sites should connect instead to boa.gsfc.nasa.gov, and Australian sites
should use plaza.aarnet.edu.au.  (The GOES-7 data doesn't appear to be
on these sites yet.)

faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu                    (WWW)
  Thematic unit on weather for grades 2-4.

ftp.colorado.edu    [128.138.129.2]            (FTP)
  Change directory to "pub/weather-images".  Weather radar summary map
GIFS and PICT files, surface maps, satellite images for several US cities
and regions.  Also images and other stuff for Andrew in the subdirectory
"hurricane.andrew".

ftp.cs.nott.ac.uk                    (FTP)
  Meteosat images of Europe and North Africa, and the globe, in gif
format.  See unicorn.nott.ac.uk for the same images in jpeg format.
An archive of older images may be made available in the future, perhaps
on CD-ROM;  contact [e-mail].

ftp.csn.org        [128.138.213.21]        (FTP)
  Change directory to "COGS".  A large file containing detailed information
on FTP sites, Bitnet and Usenet discussion groups, and data sources is
located in the file "ores.txt".  This file contains more information on
mapping, GIS, remote sensing, and geology, subjects which are mostly outside
the scope of this meteorology-oriented FAQ.  Mapping software and datasets
are also available in this directory.  Contact [e-mail] (Bill Thoen)
for more information.

ftp.csr.utexas.edu                    (FTP,WWW)
  Monthly averaged global sea level anomaly maps in "/pub/sst/gifs" or
via WWW in sst.html.  Text information also available in "/pub/sst".
  Sea level anomalies are routinely computed using TOPEX/POSEIDON (T/P)
Interim Geophysical Data Records (IGDRs) by the University of Texas
Center for Space Research (UT/CSR) as soon as the data for a complete
10-day repeat cycle are available, approximately 1 to 2 weeks after the
end of a cycle.
  Contact Don Chambers, [e-mail]

ftp.erc.msstate.edu                    (FTP)
  GRIB decode in C in "pub/griblib.tar.Z".

ftp.gphs.vuw.ac.nz    [130.195.43.48]            (FTP)
  GMS images over New Zealand, hourly, in jpeg format, for the last week
or so.  From Victoria University of Wellington Geophysics department.
A basic WWW interface is also available by opening the URL
http://www.gphs.vuw.ac.nz/../meteorology/maps.html.

ftp.jcu.edu.au         [137.219.16.14]            (FTP)
  Change directory to "JCUMetSat". GMS-4 images updated regularly for
various Australian states, Australia as a whole, the globe, the TOGA/COARE
area, and events of interest such as cyclones. The images are in a format
designed for the package JCUMetSat on Amiga computers, but can be converted
to GIF format using the ALCHEMY software (shareware) available at this site.
(More information on the format and images can be obtained from Professor
C.J. Kikkert, [e-mail].)

ftp.met.ed.ac.uk    [129.215.168.19]        (FTP)
  Change directory to "images".  IR and visible images of Europe from
Meteosat, twice daily, in 1152 x 900 GIF format (size of Sun root window).
Also Atlantic area and African images.  The subdirectory "gifs" has smaller
3x daily images of the Nordic areas, the UK, and Europe.
  Images from the Water Vapour channel ( 5.7 - 7.1 um ) of Meteosat 5 have
been added. The images are in the same sizes and formats as the IR and
VIS full disk images.
  The directory "animations" contains movies in .fli and MPEG formats.
Software to uncompress "gzip" files is here too.  Info from
[e-mail] (Gordon Watson)
  The directory "calmet" contains software and documents in support of
computer-aided learning in meteorology;  it is associated with the CALMET
mailing list described in section IV of this document.  The file
"intro_to_calmet" in the "documents" subdirectory describes how to find
what's available.

ftp.met.fsu.edu        [128.186.5.56]            (FTP)
  This FTP site at Florida State University is mostly a repository for
public domain software and shareware that is useful to atmospheric
scientists.  There are also Hurricane Andrew images in the directory
"/pub/hurricane_Andrew".  The file "internet.tex" in the "pub/Internet_info"
directory contains an article by Jon Ahlquist about Internet resources for
atmospheric scientists;  this was published in the March 1993 Bulletin of
the AMS, but the on-line version will be updated from time to time.  For more
information contact [e-mail].
  Also available here is an NWS document describing the changes to the
Surface Airway Observation (SAO) format as of 1/1/95.

ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu                    (FTP)
  Code and software for HDF data format.

ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov    [192.149.148.109]        (FTP)
  Some publically accessible data and tools from NOAA's National
Geophysical Data Center.  Also, information on NGDC CD-ROM products.
More information available from [e-mail]
  This information is also available by NGDC's Gopher and WWW servers.

ftp.sat.dundee.ac.uk    [134.36.22.15]                  (FTP, WWW)
Dundee University archive of NOAA AVHRR / HRPT images of Europe for the
last 15 years, with on-line access to lower resolution images (Quicklooks)
for the last six months, and a full resolution data service on request.
For information contact Alan Muir ([e-mail]).

ftp.uwp.edu        [131.210.1.4]            (FTP)
  Mirror site for vmd.cso.uiuc.edu in pub/wx.

ftp.ucar.edu                        (FTP)
  Code for CGD's Community Climate Model is in "ccm" directory.  Anyone who
acquires the CCM2 distribution package is strongly encouraged to register
their name, mailing address, and e-mail address, by sending mail to
[e-mail].

ftpnssl.nssl.uoknor.edu                    (FTP)
  Change directory to "/pub/skaggs".  Fortran program to calculate
windchill and heat index based on NWS code, and to interconvert humidity
variables based on Smithsonian Meteorological Tables.  Also code to
calculate sunrise and sunset.  Questions to [e-mail].

gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov                    (WWW, Telnet)
  The Global Change Master Directory is a multidisciplinary on-line
information system containing descriptions of Earth and space science
data holdings available to the science community. These include data from
NASA, NOAA, NCAR, USGS, DOE (CDIAC), EPA, NSF and other  U.S. and
international agencies, universities, and research centers.
  For telnet access, login as "gcdir".

geochange.er.usgs.gov                    (WWW)
  Datasets from the the U.S. Geological Survey Global Change Research
Program, an operational arm of the national U.S. Global Change Research
Program (USGCRP).  Modern average global SST and polar sea ice are
available.

geograf1.sbs.ohio-state.edu                (Gopher)
  Forecasts for US, Canada, Caribbean;  severe weather, NMC products, tropical
observations and forecasts, marine and aviation weather;  satellite images
and analyses for US including Alaska, and Antarctica.

glis.cr.usgs.gov    [152.61.192.54]            (Telnet)
  This is a menu driven system (Global Land Information System) which allows
users to search a list of research datasets available from the EROS Data
Center at USGS, and order data if desired.  Most of the data are ecosystem
maps and elevation/depth maps.

grads.iges.org                        (WWW)
  COLA (Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies) homepage.  The primary
goal of COLA is to foster interdisciplinary research and to increase our
understanding of the physical processes in the atmosphere, at the land
surface, in the oceans, and the interactions among these components.
  Includes GrADS software and weather forecasts from various models
for North America, Europe, East Asia, and some Mexico/Caribbean items.

gopher.atmos.albany.edu                    (Gopher)
  SUNY Albany Atmospheric Science Gopher.

gopher.ciesin.org        [160.39.1.202]        (Gopher)
(CIESIN-NASA-EOS Global Change Information Network)
  This gopher server has some papers on global change (not many yet).
Under the "Environmental Internet Catalog" there are resources
under various useful topics, particularly under "Earth Science",
"Ecology and the Environment", and "Weather and Meteorology".
It allows gopher access to some of the FTP and telnet resources described
in this document.  Comments should be sent to [e-mail].

gopher.ncc.go.jp                     (Gopher)
(National Cancer Center, Tokyo JAPAN)
  Select "Other-information" and then "weather".  This is a joint system
between the National Cancer Center and the Japanese Weather Association.
Files are updated every 3 hours.

gopher.ngdc.noaa.gov    [192.149.148.109]        (Gopher)
(National Geophysical Data Center)
  Some publically accessible data and tools from NOAA's National
Geophysical Data Center.  Also, information on NGDC CD-ROM products.
Connections to other data services, NOAA environmental gopher, other
gateways.  (This service is still under developement.) More information
available from [e-mail].

gopher.nodc.noaa.gov                    (Gopher)
  Appears to be a gopher connection to the same sort of thing as
esdim1.nodc.noaa.gov (datasets from various government sources).  Also
allows connections to various government agency info (NASA, NOAA, NIST,
DOE, Dept. of Interior, EPA, USDA).

gopher.ssec.wisc.edu                     (Gopher)
(Space Science and Engineering Center, U. of Wisconsin-Madison)
  This server currently offers near real-time daily browse GIF images
from the GOES satellite and 8 Antarctic browse GIF images per day.  The
Antarctic browse (funded by NSF) is a composite of 5 geostationary
and 2 polar satellites covering the area from 45 degrees south to
the South Pole.  General background information about McIDAS is also
available.  Some images from the new GOES-8 area also available.
For information contact Steve Rader ([e-mail])

gopherpc.abrfc.noaa.gov        [192.133.17.165]    (Gopher)
(Arkansas-Red River Forecast Center)
  This server contains forecasts of river levels and flood stages for
the mainstem rivers in the Arkansas-Red River Basin area (AR, CO, OK,
LA, MO rivers).

graupel.mit.edu                        (WWW)
   MIT Weather Radar Laboratory information under Radar_Lab.html.

grizzly.uwyo.edu                    (Gopher)
  Weather satellite images and forecast model output, meteorgrams and
some forecasts and observations for US states and regions.

hanauma.stanford.edu    [36.51.0.16]            (FTP)
  The CIA World Bank database contains coastlines, rivers and political
boundaries.  An 0.5 degree elevation dataset is also there.  A program for
decoding the CIA data can be found as "mfil" on pi1.arc.umn.edu
[137.66.130.11]  (Info from [e-mail])
  NOTE this site no longer exists.  This information *may* be moved
to oas.stanford.edu sometime in the future.  I'll try to keep an eye
on the situation.

hermes.merit.edu    [35.1.48.150]            (Telnet)
  Type um-weather at the "Which Host?" prompt and use menus.
(Connects to downwind.sprl.umich.edu)

hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov    [192.67.134.72]            (FTP, Telnet, WWW)
  Information on datasets available from NCDC (the National Climatic Data
Center) in "/pub/data/inventories".  These are inventories of the contents
of various datasets.  You should login as 'anonymous' and use your email
address as the password.  The 'README.TXT' file describes the contents.
Included is 'COMPLETE-GUIDE.TXT', which has detailed descriptions of
datasets, on-line data, and many publications.  If you wish to order data
after browsing this information, contact their customer service department
at 704-271-4800.
  Some datasets are available here, including recent global summary of day
data for over 8000 stations in "/pub/data/globalsod/" (see 'readme.txt' for
description & 'world-stns.gif' for global station map), and station and
gridded temperature anomaly data in "pub/datasets/climatedata/".
  This site is also reachable by telnet using "storm" as the login and
"research" as the password, or by using a WWW browser such as Mosaic and
opening http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov (opens NCDC Homepage).
  Also available in the directory "/pub/data/blizzard" are 3 files including
"storm.txt" containing observations from the 1993 "Storm of the Century."

hydro.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp                    (FTP)
  Change directory to "data/noaa".  NOAA quick look images of the
area around Japan are recieved and processed by Takagi Laboratory in
Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo.  The images are
in Portable GrayMap file format(PGM), which can be easily converted to
other image formats using `pbmplus' utilities.  The mmddhhQL.pgm.Z files
are images (mm=month, dd=day, hh=hour) of size 512x480.

hydro.princeton.edu                    (FTP)
  Insolation calculation from Berger model and energy balance from
Pease model in directory "stamm/energy.budget".  Provided by John Stamm,
[e-mail].

iris.ssec.wisc.edu                    (FTP)
  Change directory to "pub".  Vis5D system for visualizing weather and
ocean model output, and  VisAD system for analyzing and visualizing images,
grids, etc.

java.meteor.wisc.edu                    (WWW)
  University of Wisconsin-NMS operational forecasts available.  48 hour
forecast VIS-5D datasets for all three model grids with a one hour animation
timestep are available for download.  A map outline file and surface
topography file for our local spherical coordinate system are also available.
  GIF format images of various model quantities are also available at 6 hourly
forecast intervals starting at 00 UTC and ending at 00 UTC + 48 hours.
  The model is run once every day using the 00 UTC NMC eta analysis,
and uses 6 hourly eta model forecasts as boundary conditions.  More info
on the specifics of the model is available through the home page.

jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov                    (FTP)
  Nimbus-7 and Meteor-3 daily gridded Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
(TOMS) ozone data. Change directory to /pub/nimbus-7 or /pub/meteor3.
Read the README files in each directory and other text files...user is
warned that the data are not archive quality and not suitable for
publication. Data will eventually be archived with the GSFC DAAC.

kaja.gi.alaska.edu                    (FTP)
  The program uvspec, which calculates diffuse and direct uv and visible
fluxes (radiance) and intensities (irradiance) at any altitude, is available
in the file "/pub/arve/uvspec-1.01.tar.z".
  The wavelength range from 176.0 nm to 850.0 nm is covered with a resolution
of 1 nm. All calculated radiative quantities are in units of W/(m^2 nm).
Water Clouds may be included in the radiative transfer calculation.  A
variety of aerosols and cirrus cloud models may optionally be turned on.
  To uncompress and untar the file, use "gzip -d uvspec-1.01.tar.z" followed
by "tar -xvf uvspec-1.01.tar", or if you have GNU's tar command use
"tar -xzvf uvspec-1.01.tar.z".

kestrel.umd.edu        [129.2.110.31]            (FTP)
  Mirror site for vmd.cso.uiuc.edu in pub/wx.  Also archives gifs and
programs (not messages) from the Wxsat mailing list (see part 3 of this
FAQ) in pub/wxsat.  Also has surface analysis GIF of Alaska.  Custom
SA/radar analysis maps for areas not normally covered may be made on
request to [e-mail] (custom maps begin with 00 and were
created using U. of Illinois's WXMAP program).

kuda.atd.ucar.edu    [128.117.84.65]            (Telnet)
  Log in as "kuda" with "science" as the password.  This will put you
into a database program which will allow you to select from many types
of atmospheric measurements and supporting data from the Persian Gulf
region during the Kuwait oil well fires (1991).  Inventory includes
aircraft measurements of particulates, chemistry, radiation, and state
parameters, surface-based meteorological, air quality, and radiation
measurements, model output grids, and digital satellite images from
NOAA and DMSP polar orbiters.
  For more information, contact [e-mail], or
Julie Haggerty at 303/497-1058.

liasun3.epfl.ch                        (FTP)
  Change directory to "pub/weather".  IR and visible images of Europe
from Meteosat, in GIF format.  It appears that this site contains
the same images as ftp.met.ed.ac.uk.

life.anu.edu.au 80                    (WWW)
  Australian National University Bioinformatics server.  Connections to
many weather resources worldwide on their very nice Weather Page
(weather.html).  Comments to [e-mail].

ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov                    (WWW)
  Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics.  Includes the home page for the
MODIS Airborne Simulator.

mcidas.uncc.edu                        (Gopher)
  UNC/Charlotte Earth Science server.  MCIDAS images and many text
products from the NWS for the Southeast US, including forecasts,
climate summaries, air pollution, severe weather, precipitation.

measun.nrrc.ncsu.edu 3000                (Telnet)
  Include the "3000" when connecting to the machine.  This is a menu driven
system which has a large variety of information, including US and Canadian
weather forecasts, ski conditions, earthquake reports, severe weather
reports, and current weather conditions for some international cities.
(Weather Underground at NCSU, similar to UM service.)

meteor.atms.purdue.edu                    (Gopher)
(Purdue University WXP Gopher)
  This gopher site includes satellite images, surface plots and analyses,
upper air plots and analyses, soundings, radar, and plots of the results
from various NMC forecast models.  A very nice feature of this gopher is
the "plot summary" in each directory, which explains very clearly the
meteorological usefulness and interpretation of the various plots.
Questions and comments to [e-mail].

metlab1.met.fsu.edu                    (Gopher)
  This gopher site includes satellite images, surface plots and analyses,
upper air analyses, soundings, and radar for the US (some Canadian plots),
and text forecasts for Florida.  The ftp site ftp.met.fsu.edu can
be accessed via this site.
  Also available here is an NWS document describing the changes to the
Surface Airway Observation (SAO) format as of 1/1/95.

nasagiss.giss.nasa.gov    [192.42.70.2]            (FTP)
  Various monthly mean data files, including ISCCP C2 cloud data, surface
temperature anomalies, grids of various variables used in the GCM II
(General Circ. Model).  Also various maps of vegetation indices, cultivation
indices, wetland ecosystems.  The file "GISS.HELP" contains an index
to the contents of this FTP area.  Contact [e-mail]
for help or more information.  (Note:  you will be asked for a password --
just enter your email address.)

ncardata.ucar.edu    [128.117.8.111]            (FTP)
  Information on datasets available from NCAR (the National Center for
Atmospheric Research), and a few small datasets.  If you would like to
order data after browsing this information, email to [e-mail].
Small datasets can be provided by FTP;  we also write various kinds of tapes.
See the README file.
  The "pub/weather" subdirectory contains Colorado weather and (in season)
ski condition reports.
  A few special datasets are located in the FTP area, and are free.  They
are described in the file "pricing".  These include a 1 deg resolution
elevation dataset, a continental outline dataset, and a list of all WMO
stations with latitude, longitude, and elevation.
  This ftp area can also be accessed with a nifty hypertext interface
at http://www.ucar.edu/dss

nevado.srcc.lsu.edu                    (Telnet, Gopher)
  The Southern Regional Climate Center operates a gopher and telnet
site, with data mostly for the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas.  There is some other US data available
through the telnet site (login srcc).

nic.fb4.noaa.gov                    (FTP)
  Selected monthly mean and anomaly fields [from the Climate Diagnostic Data
Base (CDDB)] are in the directory "/pub/cac/cddb";  tropical indices are in
the subdirectory "indice" within that directory.  Text for the Climate
Diagnostics Bulletin and ENSO Advisory is available in the directory
"/pub/cac/nino".  Also contains information about, and code to read, NMC
data formats such as GRIB.

ns.noaa.gov                        (Gopher,WWW)
  This site, also accessible as gopher.noaa.gov.  NWS forecasts for US
cities, states, zones, and regions.
  As http://ns.noaa.gov/saa/homepage.html, home of the Satellite Active
Archive, a digital library of real-time and historical satellite data
from NOAA's Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites (POES).
  As http://ns.noaa.gov/NESDIS/NESDIS_Home.html, the National Environmental
Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) Home Page.

nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov                    (FTP or Telnet)
  Telnet:  The National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) On-Line Data and
Information Service (NODIS) is a menu-driven interactive system which provides
information on services and data supported by NSSDC.  Login as NSSDC.  Some
topics:  Nimbus-7 GRID TOMS Data, Geophysical Models, Standards and
Technology Information System.
  FTP: some information and actual data is also available via anonymous FTP.
For more information contact [e-mail].

nx1.soils.umn.edu    [128.101.77.165]        (Gopher)
(MN Climatology Working Group)
  This gopher directory contains lots of files with climate data for
Minnesota.  Comments and questions to [e-mail].

owl.nstn.ns.ca                        (Gopher)
  Canadian site for Canadian forecasts.

photo1.si.edu        [160.111.16.2]            (FTP)
  Change directory to "/More.Smithsonian.Stuff/nasm.planetarium" (case
sensitive!).  The subdirectory "weather.gif" has 640 X 480 X 256 GIF89a
format (some older files in GIF87a) images from NOAA and Meteor polar
orbiting weather satellites, maybe others.  Images will remain here for
a few weeks -- some of the more exceptional images will be placed in a
longer-term archive under the subdirectory "/weather.archive".
  Files will be named sssdddd*.gif where sss is the spacecraft (e.g. N11=
NOAA-11, M33=Meteor 3-3), dddd is the date, and * is a descriptor (see
the readme information).
  HRPT visible and IR images of the recent California fires are available
in the subdirectory "calif.disaster".  The f1----.gif series is the Laguna
fire, f2----.gif series is the Malibu fire, and the f3----.gif series is
the Northridge fire.
  For more information, contact [e-mail] (Geoff Chester).

plaza.aarnet.edu.au    [139.130.4.6]            (FTP)
  Same GMS images as explorer.arc.nasa.gov, in the "weather" directory;
this site should be used by Pacific sites only.

quake.think.com     [192.31.181.1]            (WAIS)
(Weather.src) Service: 210  Database: weather
  Currently you'll get the best results by asking this server for 'weather'.
The returned list of files should include this file, as well as the day's
satellite weather maps.  You might want to refine your search by including
"gif" if you'd rather get the maps, or "txt" if you want the textual
weather forecasts.  You can try by city name, too.  Comments to
[e-mail].

rainbow.ldgo.columbia.edu                (WWW)
  This is the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University's
Climate Group's server.  The "Data Library" contains various climatologies
for the ocean and atmosphere, and topographic data, along with a nice
interactive system for selection and display of data.

rainbow.physics.utoronto.ca                (FTP)
  NOAA-11/12 mosaic GIF images of North America derived from HRPT (High
Resolution Picture Transmission) data stream.  Change directory
to "/pub/sat_images".
  The images are 1280 x 1024 mosaics of successive passes of either
NOAA-11 or NOAA-12 and cover an area from 40 deg W to 130 deg W and from
70 deg N to 20 deg N. At present, only images derived from Channel 4 are
being posted. Four mosaics will be posted daily, named mmmdd_noaa##.TT.gif
where ## is the satellite number (11 or 12) and TT is the time (am or pm).
Images will remain accessible for two days.
  To assist in the interpretation of the images, coastlines, rivers and
lakes have been superimposed.  The resolution of the images has been reduced
to approximately 4 km, but full resolution images of particular areas
of interest may be available upon request.
  For information contact [e-mail] (Professor
G.W.K. Moore).

ridgisd.er.usgs.gov     [130.11.48.107]            (WAIS)
(DOE_Climate_Data.src)
Service: 210  Database: /usr/opt/wais/db/DOE_Climate_Data
(NOAA_National_Environmental_Referral_Service.src)
Service: 210  Database: /usr/opt/wais/db/nedres
  Contains information about various climate data sets.  The maintainer
is [e-mail].

sanddunes.scd.ucar.edu                    (Telnet)
  AVHRR (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer) images from 1989 through
7 Jan 1992 cover CO, WY, KS, NE, and NM, as well as parts of AZ, UT, OK,
and TX.  Since 7 Jan 1992, coverage includes these plus CA, OR, NV, WA,
and MT, to 1000 km off Pacific coast.  Total coverage of US for 1989-present
will be available soon.  West coast data from 1980-1985 will be available
some time this year.
  Images are 1024 lines x 1024 elements before 7 Jan 1992, 2560 lines x
1024 elements after.  Images are 1 km resolution and 8-bit format.
  Contact Tim Kelley by email [e-mail] or telephone
303/497-1221 for login, password, and manual.  Service is free to Internet
users and is funded by NASA.

santa.asf.alaska.edu    [192.73.49.10]            (Telnet)
  This is the ASF:  The Alaska SAR Facility, one of NASA Distributed Active
Archive Centers (DAACs).  The ASF DAAC specializes in acquiring, processing
and distributing data from polar-orbiting SAR satellites.  ERS-1 SAR Level
0, Level 1 and Level 2 data are available from September 1991 to current.
Coverage within a 3000 km radius circle, centered on Fairbanks, at
resolutions ranging from ~10 km (for complex) to ~200 km (for low resolution).
JERS-1 SAR Level 0 and Level 1 data are available from May 1992 to current.
Coverage within a 2593 km radius circle, centered on Fairbanks, at resolutions
ranging from ~10 km to ~200 km.  Both digital and photographic media are
supported for distribution.
  The ASF Information Management System provides information and catalog access
to supported data sets at ASF through a guest account.  The data holdings at
ASF are restricted to flight agency approved users.  Login with user name
ACSUSER and password ALASKASAR.
  For more information contact [e-mail].

satftp.soest.hawaii.edu    [128.171.154.29]          (FTP, WWW)
  Sea-Surface-Temperature data (near-real-time) in the directory
"pub/avhrr/images".  AVHRR images within the radius of reception of the
university's HRPT station, approximately 5 S to 45 N and 125 W to 165 E,
as well as other stations in the continental US.  The processed images are
available usually within 30 min. of NOAA-11 and NOAA-12 passages. GMS-4
images of the full GMS coverage area and over the TOGA-COARE area are
available in /pub/GMS.
  Data are available in TDF format, PostScript, and GIF format, labelled by
satellite name (n11/n12/g4) and time.
  Also see "pub/spectactular" directory for images of Hurricane Fernanda.
This site concentrates on the generation of higher level products,
calibrated in scientific units and registered, that can be used for
time series analysis without having to deal with satellite geometries.
  This site is also accessible via WWW at http://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu.
  More info available from [e-mail].

sci-ed.fit.edu                        (WWW)
  Pointers to weather related sites in wx.html.

seazar.jpl.nasa.gov                    (FTP, WWW)
  This site contains information about data products available from the
JPL Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC).
Products available from PO.DAAC are largely satellite derived, and include:
sea-surface height, surface-wind vector (and sigma-nought), surface-wind
speed, surface-wind stress vector, integrated water vapor, atmospheric
liquid water, sea-surface temperature, sea-ice extent and concentration,
heat flux, and in-situ data as it pertains to satellite data.
  Also available by ftp at ftppodaac.jpl.nasa.gov.

server.ices.inst.dk                    (FTP)
  International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) server
has several PC oceanographic products available in the "dist/ocean"
directory, including a list of country codes and ship codes, and
inventories of data profiles and research activities.  For more information
contact [e-mail].

shelley.ca.uky.edu                    (Gopher, Telnet)
  University of Kentucky College of Agriculture Gopher server.
US Zone forecasts by state, plus detailed forecasts and observations
for Kentucky.  Also includes river conditions for central US states
under the NWS products menu.
  For telnet access, log in as "kyag".

snow.nohrsc.nws.gov     [192.46.108.1]          (FTP)
  Various snow-related images in GIF format.  US snow cover map updated
weekly.  JPEG of current AVHRR images.
  Also included are JPEG images of the east coast during the March 1993
blizzard, and of the midwest during the July 1993 flood.
  See www.nohrsc.nws.gov for WWW access.
  Contact [e-mail] (Tim Szeliga) for more info.

spectrum.xerox.com    [192.70.225.78]            (FTP)
  Various USGS data in subdirectories under the directory "pub/map".

srv1rvares.er.usgs.gov    [130.11.51.209]            (FTP)
  USGS streamflow data from the HCDN data set, 1874-1988 CD-ROM (see
CD-ROM section) by Slack et al in the directory "hcdn92".

sseop.jsc.nasa.gov    [146.154.11.34]            (FTP)
  Many pictures taken from the space shuttle.  Files are in a 512x512
format as red, green, and blue bitmaps. Image files are binary format,
and have .DAT as an extension.

starhawk.jpl.nasa.gov                    (WWW)
  Access to various http (WWW) and telnet catalogs of data from
past and present NASA planetary missions, astronomical observations,
and laboratory measurements.

storm.ofps.ucar.edu    [128.117.90.53]            (Telnet)
  Hourly and 5-minute composite surface observations, and composite
rawinsonde soundings, from STORM-FEST.  Log in as "storm" with
the password "research" to access a menu-driven system which will allow
you to search for the data you want.  You can also connect to the
NCDC site hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov through these menus.
(Contact Mark Bradford, [e-mail] if you have questions.)

sumex-aim.stanford.edu                    (FTP)
  Quicktime (for Macintosh) movie of "Blizzard of 93" in the file
/pub/info-mac/art/qt/blizzard-of-93.hqx.  (Binhexed file.)

swami.tamu.edu                        (Gopher, WWW)
  Agricultural weather for Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico;  Palmer drought
indices, statistics, weather summaries. Agricultural weather advisories
for much of southern US.

thunder.atms.purdue.edu                    (WWW)
(Purdue University WXP Web site)
  This site includes satellite images, surface plots and analyses,
upper air plots and analyses, soundings, radar, and plots of the results
from various NMC forecast models.  The text on each page explains very
clearly the meteorological usefulness and interpretation of the various
plots.  Questions and comments to [e-mail].

thunder.met.fsu.edu                     (WWW, Telnet)
  National Weather Service at Tallahassee Web page is available
on this machine at http://thunder.met.fsu.edu/~nws.
  A weather underground is also available from this machine by telnet
to port 3000.

tortel.dcc.uchile.cl    [146.83.4.40]            (Gopher, Telnet)
(Universidad de Chile)
  Weather forecasts for Chile, in Spanish.  Choose the menu items "Servicios
Miscelaneos", then "Pronosticos Meteorologicos", and then "Informe Diario
Direccion Meteorologica de Chile".  For telnet access, log in as "gopher"
(no password) and continue as above.

unicorn.nott.ac.uk                    (FTP)
  Meteosat images of Europe and North Africa, and the globe, in jpeg
format.  See ftp.cs.nott.ac.uk for the same images in gif format.
An archive of older images may be made available in the future, perhaps
on CD-ROM;  contact [e-mail].

unidata.ucar.edu    [128.117.140.3]            (Gopher, FTP)
  FTP:  Change directory to "images". Weather radar summary map GIFS,
surface maps for various places, a few soundings on skew-t log-p diagrams,
GOES Hugo images (in subdirectory "images/hugo").  Surface maps include
Europe and China.

uriacc.uri.edu        [131.128.1.1]            (FTP)
  Change directory to "davet.195".  Images of the northeast US in GIF format
from the afternoon passes of NOAA-11.  (Provided by Dave Tetreault,
[e-mail].)

vicbeta.vic.bom.gov.au 55555    [134.178.130.2]        (Telnet)
  Include the 55555 when connecting to the machine.  Australian weather
observations and forecasts via a menu-driven system.

vmd.cso.uiuc.edu     [128.174.5.98]            (FTP)
  Information on WX-TALK and other mailing lists, companies that hire
meteorologists, radio frequencies used to broadcast hurricane information,
satellite reception, and other subjects.  The images which used to be
here are no longer here, but are available at other sites (see topic
index).

vortex.weather.brockport.edu 3000            (Telnet, gopher)
  Another weather underground.  Other information available by gopher
to the same site (omit the 3000).

wais.cic.net        [192.131.22.3]            (WAIS)
(midwest-weather.src) Service: 210  Database:  midwest-weather
  National Weather Service forecasts for midwest U.S. states, updated
hourly from the `gopher' weather server at the U of Minnesota by [e-mail].

walleye.forestry.umn.edu                (WWW)
  University of Minnesota Remote Sensing Laboratory (RSL) server.  Lots
of links to GIS resources, including job openings, and remote-sensing/
GIS data.  Includes many USGS datasets, landuse, wetlands, digital
elevation, etc.

web.nexor.co.uk                        (WWW)
  Links to various European satellite photos (/users/jpo/weather/weather.html)

wilbur.stanford.edu    [36.14.0.30]            (FTP)
  Change directory to "pub/weathergifs".  IR and visible images of Europe
from Meteosat, in GIF format.  It appears that this site contains
the same images as ftp.met.ed.ac.uk.  Also has satellite images of
US.

wind.atmos.uah.edu 3000    [146.229.8.2]            (Telnet)
  Include the 3000 when connecting to the machine.  This is the University
of Alabama at Huntsville's Weather Underground, a menu-driven system
which has forecasts, climate data, and current observations for US cities,
severe (US) weather, ski reports, and a "heating and cooling degree database".
This Weather Underground also includes WXP so that X-windows users can
have available weather maps displayed on their terminals.  Comments
and suggestions to [e-mail].

wmaps.aoc.nrao.edu    [146.88.1.103]            (FTP)
  Mirror site for vmd.cso.uiuc.edu in pub/wx.

wuarchive.wustl.edu    [128.252.135.4]            (FTP)
  Mirror site for vmd.cso.uiuc.edu in multimedia/images/wx.

www.acm.uiuc.edu                    (WWW)
  Rob's Multimedia Lab has a weather page at weather.html.  Movies of
hurricane Emily, California fires images, local (mid-Atlantic) weather
from other sites.

www.aodc.gov.au                        (WWW)
  The Australian Oceanographic Data Centre server has background information
about the AODC, a data inventory, available products and services, and
information about their computer systems and project development.

www.awi-bremerhaven.de                    (WWW)
  Alfred Wegener Institute.  Includes Hydrographic Atlas of the Southern
Ocean, and observations from the  meteorology observatory at the German
Antarctic Station Neumayer (70#37'S, 8#22'W), including  3-hourly routine
synoptic observations, daily upper air soundings and surface radiation and
mast measurements.  Since 1992 upper air ozone soundings are included.

www.atmos.uiuc.edu                    (WWW)
  The Daily Planet from the University of Illinois.  Contains links
to the U of I Weather Machine (gopher) as well as direct links to
many of the same images: satellite images, surface and upper air,
forecast model output, etc.  This server also includes a very nice
and comprehensive collection of MPEG movies based on the still images.
They are updated hourly and they cover various time durations of up
to over two days.
  Other available information includes a collection of lists of other
weather servers and sources of weather data, atmospheric sciences community
info, local information about the U of I atmospheric sciences department,
and some online hypermedia instructional modules for atmospheric sciences.
  The administrative contact e-mail address for the server is:
[e-mail]

www.cdc.noaa.gov                        (WWW)
  The Climate Diagnostics Center (CDC), previously the Climate Research
Division of the ERL Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL),
conducts diagnostic studies of climate variability on time scales of months
to centuries.  CDC climatological data is archived in netCDF format.
This site gives access to metadata (information about these datasets) which
can be searched by various keywords;  actual data must be ordered
from CAC by email or fill-in forms.

www.etl.noaa.gov                    (WWW)
  The NOAA Environmental Technology Laboratory.  In addition to information
about the lab, this site has near-real-time images of surface wind direction
for the North Atlantic Ocean measured by the Air Force OTH-B over-the-horizon
radar in Maine.  Real-time and archival data are available for downloading.
The OTH radar will not operate on weekends. Feedback and questions may
be directed to [e-mail].

www.jpl.nasa.gov                    (WWW)
  JPL site.  From the home page, choose "Recent News from JPL", or
go directly to sircxsar.html for images from the Spaceborne Imaging
Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR), which flew on
space shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-59 April 9-20, 1994.  SIR-C/X-SAR
uses a highly sophisticated imaging radar to capture images of Earth that
are useful to scientists across a great range of disciplines. The instrument
is scheduled for a second flight on shuttle mission STS-68 in August 1994.

www.hawaii.edu                        (WWW)
  University of Hawaii server has worldwide tropical storm tracks
and local weather available from the "News" page.

www.met.fu-berlin.de                    (WWW)
  Free University of Berlin Institute for Meteorology.  Information is
available in German or English.  Includes local current weather,
latest Meteosat photo, list of upcoming conferences, neatly-formatted
and organized list of these weather resources.  Best place to begin
for English-speakers is http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/english/Wetter/index.html.

www.ngdc.noaa.gov    [192.149.148.109]        (WWW, Gopher, FTP)
  This site serves information about NOAA's National Geophysical Data
Center. There are links to many NOAA data archives, including
the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP), Solar-Terrestrial Data
from the World Data Center exchange program, Marine Geological & Geophysical
Data, Solid Earth Geophysical Data, and Paleoclimatology Data.
This site can also be accessed using Gopher or FTP.

www.nohrsc.nws.gov                    (WWW)
  The National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center, a branch of
the National Weather Service and NOAA, is assigned to measure snow cover
in the US & Canada, using satellite data, ground observations, airborne
sensors and a lot of intensive hydrologic modeling.
  This site provides access to the NOHRSC ftp area which has various snow-
related images in GIF format,  US snow cover map updated weekly,  JPEG of
current AVHRR images, JPEG images of the east coast during the March 1993
blizzard, and of the midwest during the July 1993 flood.

www.nnic.noaa.gov                    (WWW)
  NWS/NOAA pages.   Use www.nnic.noaa.gov/weather.html to access weather
page directly.  These pages are basically big imagemaps, so don't bother
if you're not using a graphical browser.

www.ns.doe.ca                        (WWW)
  Environment Canada Atlantic Region server.  Contains regional weather
forecasts, satellite photos, maps & radar images; the complete texts of
many of its most popular national publications, including primers designed
to assist teachers; details about many regional and national initiatives and
programs; the answers to some of the questions that Atlantic Canadians most
frequently ask when they phone or write to the Department; direct phone
numbers of the Department's regional experts on numerous issues and
initiatives; details and documents regarding regional public consultation
meetings; news about regional public environmental events;  descriptions of
the department's funding programs; a list of the department's key publications
available to order; copies of its recent regional press releases and
announcements;  the complete text of its environmental legislation,
regulations, > guidelines, codes of good practice, and related policies;
details about its key regional federal/provincial agreements; and descriptions
of its mission, roles, responsibilities and organizational structure.

www.nssl.uoknor.edu                    (WWW)
  The NSSL page features information on a number of projects involving
laboratory scientists, in particular, VORTEX (a tornado field project),
SREF (Short-Range Ensemble Forecasting), and SWAMP (SouthWest Area
Monsoon Project).  As part of the VORTEX section, there are some
spectacular airborne Doppler radar images of a tornadic thunderstorm.

www.rsmas.miami.edu                    (WWW)
  The Remote Sensing Group in the Division of Meteorology and Physical
Oceanography of the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science is
actively engaged in satellite remote sensing of the earth's oceans. Low
resolution visible and infrared imagery is collected daily from the NOAA
sun-synchronous polar orbiting satellites. Low resolution observations
(4 km.) are collected globally while high resolution observations (1 km.)
are collected from selected areas of research interest around the globe.
  Home page is at home.html, images at images.html.

www.sat.dundee.ac.uk see ftp.sat.dundee.ac.uk

www.sel.bldrdoc.gov                    (WWW)
  NOAA's Space Environment Laboratory (SEL) server has information about
the Sun and the environment between the Sun and the Earth, including
"space weather" and solar images.

www.service.uit.no
  Some meteorological and magnetometer data for Adventdalen, Norway,
is available from http://www.service.uit.no/geofysisk/geofysisk.html.

www.ucar.edu                        (WWW)
  National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) http server. Select
"Research Data Archives" to access the variety of data archives available;
also contains other information about NCAR.  Questions should be
sent to [e-mail].

www.mit.edu 8001                    (WWW)
  Neat map interface to (text) weather reports and forecasts.   Map shows
current conditions.  Appears to be western US only.

www.wrc.noaa.gov                    (WWW)
  NOAA's Pacific Marine Environment Lab offers "live browsing access" to the
extensive data base of gridded climatological data managed by PMEL's Thermal
Modeling and Analysis Project (TMAP).  Datasets available are COADS and
Levitus climatologies.  A user can select a variable and a plot type,
and quickly obtain a fully documented contour plot.  Images are generated
on the fly.

www-ccs.ucsd.edu                    (WWW)
  Scripps Institute of Oceanography Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) WWW
site.  Includes information about the CCS, a data archive ("The Data
Zoo"), and pointers to other oceanographic information.

wwwcaps.uoknor.edu                    (WWW)
  The Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS) is a National
Science Foundation Science and Technology Center at the University of
Oklahoma in Norman.CAPS is part of the Oklahoma Weather Center, a
collaboration among several local State, Federal, and University agencies.
The Oklahoma Weather Roundup, which features current Oklahoma Mesonet
data, can also be found at this site.

wwwdaac.msfc.nasa.gov                    (WWW)
  The MSFC DAAC is known as the HYDROLOGIC CYCLE DAAC because their data
holdings are primarily aimed at researchers investigating facets of the
hydrologic cycle.  At present, holdings are primarily limited to the
atmospheric component of the cycle.
  Available data includes SSM/I NOAA/NASA Pathfinder Products, TOVS
NOAA/NASA Pathfinder Path C1 Products, SSM/I Antenna Temperatures and
Sensor Counts, and Climatological Summaries.  Contact [e-mail]
for more information.

wx.atmos.uiuc.edu    [128.174.80.10]            (Gopher)
(UofI Weather Machine)
  Forecasts, images, surface and upper-air weather, local (Illinois) weather,
and various useful documents, including GRIB and ON84 format descriptions,
station lists, graphics information, etc. Questions, comments, and requests
for changes should be sent to [e-mail].

wx.research.att.com    [192.20.225.3]            (FTP)
  Mirror site for vmd.cso.uiuc.edu in wx directory.

xtreme.gsfc.nasa.gov                    (WWW)
  This WWW site is a reference source for data set users, as well as those
who would like to find our more about the AVHRR Land Pathfinder Data Set.
The WWW site includes tools for manipulating the data.  For more information
contact [e-mail].

---------------
Subject:  How to use the data retrieval methods

  This section only describes FTP and telnet in any detail;  for other
methods, FTP sites are given, so you can get information on them yourself.

1) How to use FTP
2) How to use telnet
3) Gopher information
4) Wais information
5) WWW information

1. How to use FTP

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) allows transfer of files between two computers
which are on the Internet.  To access the FTP areas listed here, at your
system prompt type "ftp" followed by the name of the desired system.  For
example, to access ncardata.ucar.edu you'd type

    ftp ncardata.ucar.edu

Use "anonymous" as your login and your email address as the password (if
requested).

[Note: quotes ("like this") are used to set off names of directories and
files, or commands you'd type, and are not part of these names.]

Not all FTP systems accept the same commands, but here's a list of the
most useful:

    ls      list files in the current directory.
    cd      change directory, e.g. "cd wx" changes to the wx directory.
    binary  sets binary mode
    ascii   sets ascii mode (the default).  Use for retrieving text.
    get     retrieves a file, e.g. "get readme" gets a file called readme.
    bye     exits FTP.

If you can't seem to connect to the site, check to see if it is a telnet
site.  If it is, follow the instructions in the following section instead.

If you can't FTP from your site, use one of the following ftp-by-mail servers:

    [e-mail]
    [e-mail]
    [e-mail]
    [e-mail]
    [e-mail]

Send an e-mail message to the closest address, with the lines:

    reply [e-mail]     <- with your email address
    connect ncardata.ucar.edu         <- for example
    cd datasets/ds111.2/software
    get access_sun.f
    quit

For complete instructions, send a one-line message reading "help" to the
server.  Please don't ask me for help!

2. How to use telnet

Type "telnet" followed by the name or IP number of the desired system.  These
publicly accessible systems generally allow you to log in but put you in
a restricted shell, from which only a certain menu of commands is available.
The description for the site will include the login to use.

If you can't seem to connect to the site, re-check its description in the
document; if it's an FTP site, follow the instructions in the previous
section instead.

3. Gopher information

Available by ftp at ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/gopher-faq.

4. Wais information

Available by ftp at
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/wais-faq/getting-started.

5. WWW information

Available by ftp at ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/www/faq.
WWW is so easy to use that you might as well just hop in and try it, so
ask your sysadmin if you have a WWW browser such as NCSA Mosaic.
--
/\    "How to Lose Weight, Increase Your Sex Appeal and Make a Fortune on the
  \_][  Information Superhighway" would outsell the Bible, at least briefly.
      \___http://www.ucar.edu/dss/ilana.html  [e-mail] | (C. Arthur)
Archive-name: weather/data/part2
Last-modified: 28 Feb 1995

Recent changes:

  ==within last two weeks==

  ==within last four weeks==






This is a guide to sources of meteorological, oceanographic, and geophysical
data which can be obtained via tape, CD-ROM, and other media.  Contents:

 1)  Overview
 2)  How to get a current copy of this document
 3)  CD-ROM source list
 4)  Data centers

Each (major) section has a "Subject:" line, so you can search on the
subject title above to find the section quickly.

---------------
Subject:  Overview

This is part 2 of a guide to various sources of meteorological,
oceanographic, and geophysical data.  Some of these data sets are intended
for enjoyment or hobbyist use;  other data are more research-oriented.
Much of the research data is not free and is not directly available over
the network; usually, only information about this data is available, and
you must place an order for the actual data.

The contents of this series of FAQs are:

Part 1:  Meteorological data available via the Internet
Part 2:  Meteorological data available via tape, CD-ROM, and other media

The section on mailing lists which used to be included in this FAQ
is now a separate FAQ, "Mailing lists and newsgroups for meteorology".

This article is copyright (c) 1993 by Ilana Stern.  It may be freely
distributed for non-commercial purposes only, provided that this copyright
notice and the instructions on retrieving a current copy are not
removed.  The information in this article is provided as-is, with no
warranties or assurances as to its accuracy.  I prefer that archives
maintain current copies, since this information changes rapidly.  If
you would like to put this article in an archive and want to receive
a new copy automatically at every update, please send me email.

Corrections, additions, and comments should be sent to Ilana Stern at
[e-mail].  Please include in your message where you read
this document.  Note that if I know about it, it's in this document.

---------------
Subject:  How to get a current copy of this document

If you are reading this document after 21 Mar 1995, you are reading an
outdated copy. A current copy can be obtained by anonymous FTP to
rtfm.mit.edu, from the file weather/data/part2 in the directory
/pub/usenet/news.answers.  These files are updated every two weeks,
when a new copy is posted to sci.geo.meteorology, news.answers,
and sci.answers.  This document also appears on the mailing lists
CLIMLIST and met-stud, which are described in the FAQ, "Mailing Lists
for Meteorology".

If you can't use FTP, send email to [e-mail] with
send /pub/usenet/news.answers/weather/data/part2
as the only text in the message (leave the subject blank).

---------------
Subject: CD-ROM source list

1) Basic information
2) List of CD-ROMs by topic, with summaries
A) Weather data
B) Research data
C) Miscellaneous

1. Basic information

CD-ROMs tend to be relatively expensive, but can hold as much as 600 megabytes
of data.  Prices are current as of October 1991;  prices for some discs
are not known.  Some discs are provided with driving software.  Most of
the software is for IBM-PC or compatible systems, but some is available
for the Macintosh, and, increasingly, for Unix systems.

Some of these listings are not for CD-ROMs, but are for floppies or
tapes.  These are listed here, rather than in the section on data available
on other media, because they have been prepared as a package.  The
research data available on tape is generally copied from a computer
archive as requests come in.

Commercial sources are flagged as such.  Inclusion of a commercial
source in this listing does not imply endorsement.

2. List of CD-ROMs by topic, with summaries

A. Weather data

Climate Change Data ($950, or 595 pounds sterling from UK source):
  Monthly 5-degree surface temperature anomaly grids 1854-1990, pressure
grids 1873-1990.  Monthly world temperature data at about 3500 stations and
precipitation data at about 6500 stations, for period of record (long).
Retrieval and mapping software included, available for various systems.
  Contact:  Dr. Phil Jones, Climatic Research Unit, University of East
Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ United Kingdom.  Distributed in North America by
Chadwyck-Healey Inc.,1101 King St, Alexandria, VA 22314.  800/752-0515.

World Weather Disc ($295):
  Monthly temp, precip, pressure, sunshine data for about 2000 world stations
for period of record.  Daily weather data at hundreds of US stations.  Data
for some stations on temp, precip, freeze, drought, soil moisture, wind,
storms.  Frequency and movement of tropical cyclones.
  Contact:  Cliff Mass, Dept. of Atmos. Sci. (AK40), University of Washington,
Seattle, WA  98195.  206/685-0910.

National Climate Info System Volume 1 ($50):
  Monthly temperature, precipitation, Palmer Hydrological Drought Index for 344
climate divisions of US.  Data can be viewed in tabular or graphical format.
The disc covers the period 1895-1989 and contains 1032 time-series graphs,
4180 maps, and 5400 frames of video animation.
  Contact:  National Climatic Data Center, Federal Building, Asheville, NC
28801.  704/271-4800, email [e-mail].

SAMSON (Solar and Meteorological Surface Observational Network)
  (3 disks, $100 each):
  The three CD-ROMs are divided geographically into regions:  eastern,
central, and western U.S., and contain hourly solar radiation data along with
selected meteorological elements for the period 1961-1990.  It encompasses
237 NWS stations in the United States, and also includes Guam and Puerto
Rico.  The dataset includes both observational and modelled data.  The hourly
solar elements are:  Extraterrestrial horizontal and extraterrestrial direct
normal radiation; global, diffuse, and direct normal radiation.
  Meteorological elements are:  Total and opaque sky cover, temperature and
dew point, relative humidity, pressure, wind direction and speed, visibility,
ceiling height, present weather, precipitable water, aerosol optical depth,
snow depth, days since last snowfall, and hourly precipitation.
 Contact:  National Climatic Data Center, see above.

CLIVUE CD-ROM  ($50):
  The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) developed a CD-ROM in support of
a museum exhibit which traveled across the U.S.  The CD contains a
1,500-station subset of NCDC's nearly 8,000 U.S. daily cooperative stations.
The user selects a date and area of the U.S. and the CD-ROM database is
queried for stations within the specified domain having data.  Then, the
system displays daily maximum and minimum temperatures, precipitation, and
snowfall for the site.  Graphs showing 7 years, 21 years, and the full period
of record (varies by station) for the station(s) are available.  Visual
displays allow users to view trends, variability, and extremes.
  Contact:  National Climatic Data Center, see above.

International Station Meteorological Climate Summary (ISMCS) 2.0 ($50)
  This CD released in August 1992 gives detailed climatological summaries
for about 980 locations worldwide.  These locations include National Weather
Service locations, domestic and overseas Navy and Air Force sites, and
selected foreign stations.  Limited summaries are also given for an additional
almost 5,000 worldwide sites.  Tabular or statistical data can be exported
to a printer or spreadsheet.  Also supports limited mouse capability.
  Contact:  National Climatic Data Center, see above.

U.S. Navy Marine Climatic Atlas of the World Ver 1.0 ($50):
  This CD-ROM includes analysis and display software for climatological
averages of atmospheric and oceanographic data.  The data are summarized with
user-defined 1 and 5 degree grid areas covering the global marine environment.
The summaries are produced using predominately ship data collected between
1854-1969.  The major elements include air and sea temperature, dewpoint
temperature, scalar wind speed, sea- level pressure, wave height, wind and
ocean- current roses.  This CD also allows the user to define element
intervals (e.g. 5 to 10 knots, 2 degree temperature intervals).  Contouring
for explicitly user-defined regions and exporting data to a printer or
diskette are supported.
  Contact:  National Climatic Data Center, see above.

Meteosat Images on CD-ROM, 1986 to 1991 (price on request):
  One full-disk infra-red image per day (usually at 12h00 UTC), one visible
image on day 1 of each month (at the same time as the infra-red image), one
water-vapour image on day 1 of each month of 1991 (at the same time as the
infra-red and visible image).  Images of the snow storm over the East coast
of the USA on 12&13 March 1993 (from meteosat-3 at 75 degrees East).  Images
of Kuwait during the Gulf war.  Full-disk Images taken by Meteosat-3 at 75
degrees East at the beginning of March 1993.
  Contact:  J. Le Ber, Meteosat Data Service, European Space Agency,
Robert Bosch Str. 5,  D6100 DARMSTADT GERMANY

High Resolution Climatology ($199/variable):  *COMMERCIAL*  (Floppy disk)
  Average monthly climatological values of maximum temperature, minimum
temperature,  and precipitation for every 1 square km of the conterminous
US for the 30-year periods 1951-1980 and 1961-1990.  The data are stored
as a rectangular matrix for each state.  Digitized state and county political
boundaries are included and referenced to the climate data sets.  The data
are in raster form as ASCII or 16-bit binary integers.  This dataset is
distributed on 5.25" or 3.5" floppy disks.
  Contact:  ZedX, Inc., P.O. Box 404, Boalsburg, PA  16827-0404.
814/466-2025.

US Summary of Day (4 disks, prices vary):  *COMMERCIAL*
  NCDC Summary of Day data, USGS streamflow data, retrieval and analysis
software.
  Contact:  Hydrosphere, Inc., 1002 Walnut, Suite 200, Boulder, CO  80302
800/949-4937, 303/443-7839

Atlas of Global Instrumental Climate Data - Version 1.0 ($30):
  Color-shaded and contoured images of global gridded instrumental data, with
each image simultaneously depicting anomaly maps of surface temperature, sea
level pressure, and 500 millibar geopotential heights and percentages of
reference period precipitation.  Monthly, seasonal, and annual composites are
available, in either cylindrical equidistant, or northern and southern
hemisphere polar projections.  Temperature maps are available from 1854 to
1991, precipitation maps from 1851 to 1989, sea level pressure maps from
1899 to 1991, and 500 mb height maps from 1946 to 1991.  All images are GIF
files (1024 x 822 pixels, 256 color). Shareware for viewing GIF images is
also available on the CD-ROM.
  Contact: Frank Keimig, Department of Geology and Geography, Box 35820,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-5820. 413/545-0659,
email [e-mail]

Historical Soviet Daily Snow Depth CD-ROM ($50):

  Historical Soviet Daily Snow Depth is based on observations at a
series of 284 World Meteorological Organization (WMO) stations throughout
the Former Soviet Union. The earliest operational stations began recording
snow depth in 1881 and the data continues until 1985. Geographic
distribution of stations is primarily in the mid latitudes of Eurasia and
correspond to inhabited areas. Stations range from 35 to 75 degrees north
latitude and from 20 to 180 degrees west longitude. Stations range in
altitude from -15 meters to 2100 meters.
  Daily data, as well as NSIDC-generated monthly means, are available
on a single CD-ROM containing ASCII data files, extraction software, and
data documentation. The source of the data used is the State
Hydrometeorological Service in Obninsk, Russia. Data were provided to NSIDC
via the Bilateral US-USSR WG-8 Exchange.  Production of this CD-ROM was
funded by the NOAA Earth Science Data and Information (ESDIM) Initiative
through the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC).
  Contact: NSIDC User Services, National Snow and Ice Data Center,
CIRES - Campus Box 449, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO  80309-0449.
303/492-6199, FAX [phone], email: [e-mail], Omnet: NSIDC.


B. Research data

NMC gridpoint dataset ($150):
  Twice daily grids for the Northern Hemisphere at a resolution of about
381 km.
  Contact: National Center for Atmospheric Research, PO Box 3000, Boulder,
CO  80307.  303/497-1219, email [e-mail].

National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) discs:
  Various discs available, including:  Gulf of Mexico GLORIA data,
Geophysics of North America, global ecosystems, global topography,
gravity data, solar activity, and more.  A catalog and price list are
available via gopher or ftp (see part 1).
  Contact:  NGDC, 325 Broadway E/GC4, Dept. 894, Boulder, CO  80303.
303/497-6958, email [e-mail].

Global Ocean Temperature and Salinity (2 discs, $80 each or $124/both)
  Temperature and salinity in the world ocean for about 1900-1990, based
on all available XBTs, MBTs, BTs, etc.
  Contact:  National Oceanographic Data Center, NOAA/NESDIS E/OC21,
Washington, DC  20235.  202/606-4549.

Global Upper Air Climatic Atlas (GUACA) ($200):
  This two-volume CD-ROM set uses a 12-year (1980-1991) 2.5 degree upper air
data base obtained from the European Centre for Medium Range Weather
Forecasts (ECMWF).  This CD presents upper air statistics for 15 vertical
levels in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere for dry bulb and dewpoint
temperature, geopotential height, air density, and vector and scalar wind
speed.  The disc provides access/display software for gridpoint data,
contouring capability for user-defined areas, and vertical profiles.
The climatology covers the 12-year period as well as individual year-months.
  Contact:  National Climatic Data Center, Federal Building, Asheville, NC
28801.  704/271-4800, email [e-mail].

Radiosonde Data of North America 1946-1992. ($400):
  Contains all available radiosonde data for North America (U.S., Canada,
Mexico, and Caribbean Islands) through the 100-mb level on four disks.
Disk periods are 1946-1965, 1966-1979, 1980-1989, and 1990-1992.  Data
includes significant, mandatory, and special wind levels for all observation
times and includes geopotential height, temperature, dew point and wind
direction, and scalar speed.  The user can select for output to printer,
screen, or file, a single station or multiple stations for a defined time
period, or all stations within a specified geographic region in either
synoptic or station sort.  The CD also contains available station metadata.
  Contact:  National Climatic Data Center, see above.

Global Tropical and Extratropical Cyclone Climatic Atlas (GTECCA) ($100):
  This CD-ROM contains all global historic tropical storm track data
available for five tropical storm basins.  Periods of record varies for each
basin, with the beginning as early as the 1870s and with 1992 at the latest
year.  Northern hemispheric extratropical storm track data will be included
from 1965 to 1992.  Tropical track data includes time, position, storm stage
(maximum wind, central pressure when available).  The user can display tracks,
track data for any basin or user-selected geographic area, or tracks passing
within a user-defined radius of any point.  Narratives for all tropical
storms for the 1980-1992 period will be included as well as basin-wide
tropical storm climatological statistics.
  Contact:  National Climatic Data Center, see above.

Global Daily Summary (GDS) ($100):
  This CD-ROM provides access to a 10,000-station set of daily maximum/minimum
temperature, daily precipitation, and 3-hourly present weather for the
1977-1991 period of record.  Data can be selected for viewing or output to
file for geographic areas or by a predefined user-selected list of stations.
The dataset includes element flags for suspected erroneous data.  A data
inventory contains station name, latitude/longitude, elevation, period of
record, and the number of observations of available data.  Requires a bare
minimum of 4 MB of RAM, with 8MB of RAM recommended for superior performance.
  Contact:  National Climatic Data Center, see above.

GALE dataset (price not known):
  GALE (Genesis of Atlantic Lows), 1/15/86-4/15/86:  ship data, raobs,
aircraft, radar, etc off N Carolina coast.  Available through Dept. of
Atmos. Sci. (AK40), University of Washington, Seattle, WA  98195.

ERICA dataset ($35):
  ERICA (Experiment on Rapidly Intensifying Cyclones over the Atlantic),
12/1/88-2/26/89:  rawinsondes, aircraft, radar, buoys, satellite data, etc.
  Contact:  C. Kreitzberg, Dept. of Physics and Atmospheric Science,
Philadelphia, PA  19104.  [phone], [e-mail].

GEDEX (Greenhouse Effect Detection Experiment)(price not known):
  Two discs containing surface, upper air, and/or satellite-derived
measurements of temperature, solar irradiance, clouds, greenhouse
gases, fluxes, albedo, aerosols, ozone, and water vapor, along with
Southern Oscillation Indices and Quasi-Biennial Oscillation statistics.
Many of the data sets provide global coverage.  The spatial resolutions
vary from zonal to 2.5 degree grids.  Some surface station data sets
span more than 100 years;  most satellite-derived sets cover only the
past 12 years.  Temporal coverage is monthly for most sets.  An update
will be available by June 1992.
  Contact:  NCDS/Goddard Distributed Active Archive Center, Code 935,
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD  20771.  301/286-3209, email
[e-mail].
  A more complete description of these discs may be obtained from
the ncardata.ucar.edu FTP site, in the file "catalogs/nondss/gedex".

HCDN (Hydro-climatic data network) streamflow dataset (price not known):
  Contains dataset, search software, and USGS Open-File Report 92-129
(Slack, J.R., and Landwehr, J.M., 1992, Hydro-climatic data network (HCDN):
A U.S. Geological Survey streamflow data set for the United States for the
study of climate variations, 1874-1988).
  Contact:  USGS, National Water Data Exchange (NAWDEX), MS 421 - National
Center, Reston VA  22092.
  The principal author of this dataset, James R. Slack, can be reached via
email at [e-mail].
  The information on the CD-ROM is also available via anonymous FTP
from srv1rvares.er.usgs.gov in the directory "hcdn92".

The following 6 discs/disc sets are available from NSIDC User Services,
National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES - Campus Box 449, University of
Colorado, Boulder, CO  80309-0449.  303/492-6199, FAX [phone],
email: [e-mail], Omnet: NSIDC.

DMSP F8 Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) Brightness Temperature
Grids for the Polar Regions (Price on request):
  18 CD-ROM discs contain daily gridded brightness temperature (Tb) for
the north and south polar regions (areas where sea ice occurs), on polar
stereographic grids, 9 July 1987 through 31 December 1991.  Each CD-ROM
contains approximately 3 months of data.  Defense Meteorological Satellite
Program (DMSP) F8 platform carried this first functional SSM/I instrument.
The SSM/I is a 7-channel, 4-frequency, linearly polarized, passive
microwave radiometric system; channels are 85.5 GHz Vertical/Horizontal,
37.0 GHz Vertical/Horizontal, 22.2 GHz Vertical, 19.3 GHz Vertical/Horizontal.
  Fortran program provided on diskette to extract single channel from
inter-leaved storage format.  Images can be displayed using IDL or other Unix
or PC software.  For 1992 and later data, see DMSP F11 SSM/I Brightness
Temperature Grids for the Polar Regions, below.
  Contact NSIDC, information above.

DMSP F8 Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) Sea Ice Concentration Grids
for the Polar Regions 1987 - 1991. (Price on request):
  DMSP F8 SSM/I Ice Concentration Grids for the Polar Regions consist of
daily first-year, multi-year, and total ice concentration on 25 x 25 km
polar stereographic grids for north and south polar regions.  SSM/I sea ice
CD-ROMs contain two sets of grids, 1) NASA Team algorithm; 2) J.C. Comiso
algorithm. Orbital antenna temperatures are processed to gridded brightness
temperatures and then used to derive gridded ice concentrations.  The SSM/I
sensor flies on U.S. Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
(DMSP) platforms; the first operational SSM/I (Special Sensor
Microwave/Imager) was that on DMSP F8.  Two CD-ROMs contain all F8 SSM/I ice
concentrations, 9 July 1987 - 31 December 1991.  North polar files are
137202 bytes, south polar are 105922 bytes.
  Data are in HDF format and can be read using software from the National
Center for Supercomputing Applications (NSCA), available by anonymous ftp
from NCSA (ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu) or with commercial packages such as IDL.
  The SSM/I is a 7-channel, 4-frequency, linearly polarized, passive microwave
radiometric system: 85.5 GHz Vertical/Horizontal, 37.0 GHz Vertical/Horizontal,
22.2 GHz Vertical, 19.3 GHz Vertical/Horizontal.  DMSP F11 SSM/I ice
concentrations for 1992 and later dates will be produced starting in late 1994,
after the ice algorithms have been modified for F11 data.
  Contact NSIDC, information above.

DMSP F11 Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) Brightness Temperature Grids
for the Polar Regions.  (Price on request):
  CD-ROM discs contain daily gridded brightness temperature (Tb) for the
north and south polar regions (areas where sea ice occurs), on polar
stereographic grids, beginning on 3 December 1991.  Each CD-ROM contains
approximately 3 months of data in single-channel files, in HDF (Hierarchical
Data Format).  As of 8/94, 5 volumes cover 12/91 - 2/93.  Inquire for latest
available data.
  Software to read and manipulate the data in HDF is available via ftp from
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA): ftp to
ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu; help is available from NCSA at [e-mail].
Data can also be displayed and manipulated using commercial packages such
as IDL.
  The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) F11 platform carries
this SSM/I instrument, a 7-channel, 4-frequency, linearly polarized, passive
microwave radiometric system; channels are 85.5 GHz Vertical/Horizontal,
37.0 GHz Vertical/Horizontal, 22.2 GHz Vertical, 19.3 GHz Vertical/Horizontal.
This product uses the same grid and projection as the NSIDC DMSP F8 SSM/I
brightness temperature and sea ice concentration CD-ROMs (1987 - 1991, see
above).
  Contact NSIDC, information above.

Nimbus-7 Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) Polar Radiances
and Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice Concentrations, 1978 - 1987.  (Price on
request):
  Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) Polar Radiances and
Sea Ice Concentrations on CD-ROM contain gridded brightness temperatures (Tb)
and sea ice concentrations for 10/78 - 8/87 (the life of the Nimbus-7 SMMR
scanner) for both polar regions on 12 CD-ROMs.  Data were collected at 6.60,
10.69, 18.00, 21.00 and 37.00 GHz in an alternate-day operating pattern
due to spacecraft power limitations.  [NOTE: Input data set is SMMR TCT
tapes; this is different from the previous SMMR CD-ROM product distributed
by NSIDC in 1989.]  Tb (in Kelvins) and sea ice concentration (in percent)
grids have 25 x 25 km grid elements in polar stereographic projection.
Volume 7 contains all SMMR sea ice concentrations for both polar regions,
plus 5 months of Tb grids for the north polar region.  The Tb grids are
stored as 16-bit integers; one day of Tb data is 0.27 mbytes for the north
polar region, 0.21 mbytes for the south.  Ice grids are stored as 8-bit
integers, each file = 136192 bytes for the north, 104912 bytes for the south.
The NASA Team Algorithm (Cavalieri et al., 1984; Gloersen and Cavalieri,
1986) was used to calculate ice concentrations from the Tbs.  Data produced
by Dr. P. Gloersen, NASA/GSFC, Oceans and Ice Branch.
  Documentation is provided on the CD-ROMs, in a hard-copy User's Guide, and
in the "SMMR Atlas", NASA Special Report SP-511 (Gloersen, et al., 1992.)
  Contact NSIDC, information above.

Historical Arctic Rawinsonde Archive (HARA), 1947-1987. (Price on request):
  The Historical Arctic Rawisonde Archive on CD-ROM, volumes 1-3, contains
over 1.2 million vertical soundings of temperature, pressure, humidity, and
wind, representing all available rawisonde ascents from Arctic land stations
poleward of 65 degrees North from the beginning of record through 1987.  For
most stations the record begins in 1958, a few begin in 1947 or 1948.  The
data are one file per year per station.  Coverage is relatively uniform,
except in the interior of Greenland.  Typically 20-40 levels are available in
each sounding.
  Documentation is provided on the CD-ROM volumes, and in hard copy (NSIDC
Special Report 2, 1992).  Software (Fortran and C) is provided on the CD-ROM
volumes to retrieve a subset of the sounding data.
  Data for 1988-1990, and monthly averaged data, will be distributed in late
1994.  Sounding data were obtained from the National Center for Atmospheric
Research (NCAR), Boulder, Colorado and the National Climatic Data Center
(NCDC) of NOAA in Asheville, North Carolina.  Data from drifting ice islands,
ships and aircraft dropsondes are being assembled as a separate archive.
  Contact NSIDC, information above.

Eastern Arctic Ice, Ocean and Atmosphere Data, Volume 1, CEAREX-1 ($50):
  Contains sea ice acceleration, deformation and stress; hydrography
(CTDs); meteorology; bathymetry; acoustics and ambient noise (sample
data) from Coordinated Eastern Arctic Experiment (CEAREX).  Includes
meteorology from Marginal Ice Zone Experiment (MIZEX), 1983, 1984, 1987.
Experiment location: Arctic Ocean north of Svalbard; Fram Strait, September
1988 - May 1989.  Amount of data: 460 mbytes.
  Data format: ASCII files.  Associated software: none.  Additional volumes
are planned; content not yet determined.
  Contact NSIDC, information above.

NWS/NOHRSC snow cover data ($50 each year):
  Airborne snow water equivalent and satellite areal extent of snow cover
data for 1990-1993 are now available on CD-ROM for major portions of the
U.S., Alaska, and Canada. The CD-ROMs include: (1) airborne snow water
equivalent data and the digitized flight line network, (2) calibrated AVHRR
and GOES satellite data used to map snow cover, (3) the classified snow cover
images (4) national and regional snow cover image products, and (5) ancillary
data sets including digital elevation data, digitized NWS basin boundaries,
and the alphanumeric results of the satellite snow cover mapping by basin and
by elevation zone.
  Contact:  CD-ROM Snow Cover Data, National Operational Hydrologic Remote
Sensing Center (NOHRSC), Office of Hydrology, National Weather Service,
6301 34th Avenue South: Room 112, Minneapolis, MN 55450-2985.
612/725-3258, FAX [phone], email [e-mail] (Tim Szeliga)

STORM-FEST data (3 discs, price unknown):
  Data from the STORM-FEST experiment -- surface observations and rawinsonde,
satellite, radar, NOWRAD, and profiler data -- plus Zeb software for viewing
the data.
  Contact Steve Williams, [e-mail].

AVHRR monthly global MCSST / CZCS data (5 discs, price on request)
  The AVHRR MCSST and CZCS phytoplankton pigment concentration data set
contains monthly averaged sea-surface temperatures (day and night) derived
from NOAA satellite AVHRR which are temporally and spatially coregistered
with phytoplankton pigment concentration data acquired from the CZCS
instrument on Nimbus-7.  The CZCS data cover 1978-1986 and AVHRR data
cover the period from 1981-1986, giving 5 years of coregistered data.
  Contact:  PO.DAAC at JPL. Contact the User Services Office at
[e-mail] for more details.

TOPEX/Poseidon altimeter merged geophysical data record (Price on request)
  Global coverage data from the TOPEX/POSEIDON mission from both the U.S.
and French altimeters with high precision orbits and environmental corrections.
The data are distributed on CD-ROMs (ISO 9660) and in an integer format usable
on VAX, UNIX, PCs, and Macs.  Each CD-ROM contains two ten-day cycles of
data, precision orbit, and cross-over files for each cycle and read software
for VAX and UNIX. As of May '94  cycles 1-52 exist on CD-ROM.
  Contact:  PO.DAAC, information above.

TOGA related satellite and in-situ data CD-ROM '85-'90. (Price on request).
  PO.DAAC has produced a set of seven CD-ROMs which contain satellite,
in-situ, and model derived data pertaining to atmospheric and oceanographic
parameters. Parameters include ocean currents, sea-surface temperature and
salinity, air temperature and pressure, cloud, and precipitation. Software will
be included. The data have been provided by agencies worldwide. (Available
in June '94.)
  Contact:  PO.DAAC, information above.

Software atlas and plotting tool for oceanographic sections (diskettes)
  ATLAST, a PC software atlas and plotting tool for oceanographic sections
(Rhines) OCEANATLAS, a Macintosh software atlas and plotting tool for
oceanographic sections (Swift et al.) are available on diskettes.
  Contact:  PO.DAAC, information above.

TOGA/COARE GMS-4 images (2 discs, $75 for the set):
  GMS-4 images during the TOGA/COARE Intensive Observation Period
(November 1992 to March 1993) regridded over 135E - 175E, 10S - 10N,
5km square pixel size.  1910 infrared and 877 visible images of albedo and
brightness temperature with overlays of the geographic grid and the
positions of moorings and ships.  Images are in compressed PostScript
format but tools are included to uncompress and convert the data
into other formats.
  Contact:  Satellite Oceanography Laboratory, University of Hawaii, 1000
Pope Road, Honolulu, HI 96822.  The check should be made to the order
of "RCUH".

Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) Global Datasets (price not known):
  Contains Version 1.1 SRB shortwave products for the period March
1985 through December 1988 as produced by the World Climate Research
Programme's (WCRP) SRB Satellite Data Analysis Center (SDAC).
Inputs to the Version 1.1 product are results from the International
Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) and the Earth Radiation
Budget Experiment (ERBE).  SDAC uses two methods (known as the
Pinker and Staylor algorithms) to estimate surface downward and
net irradiances, surface albedo, downward direct/diffuse ratio,
surface cloud forcing, and daylight cloud fraction.  In addition,
various other radiation, cloud, meteorological and diagnostic
parameters are provided to aid the user in understanding variations
in the SRB parameters.
  The SRB CD-ROM has been formatted and produced to work with IBM PCs,
Apple Macintoshes and Unix systems with ISO-9660 CD-ROM driver support.
In addition, read and display software for IBM PCs and Apple Macintoshes
are available upon request.
  Contact:  Langley DAAC User Services, MS 157B, NASA Langley Research
Center, Hampton, VA, 23681-0001. [phone], [e-mail]

United Kindom Digital Marine Atlas V2.0 (UKP56.40):   (Floppy disk)
  This is an IBM compatibile PC based Marine Atlas covering the Northeast
Atlantic and mainly centered on the British Isles.  It comes on five
1.4MB floppies and runs under DOS (V3.0 or higher).  It has several
sections covering areas such as general Bathymetry, Marine Geology,
Marine and Coastal Nature Conservation in Breat Britain, Marine Biology,
Physical Oceanography, Marine Chemistry, Fisheries and the BODC data
catalogues amongst others.
  Contact:  UKDMAP Project Manager, British Oceanographic Data Centre,
Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Bidston Observatory, BIRKENHEAD,
Merseyside L43 7RA United Kingdom.  [phone], Fax: [phone].

Stratospheric Ozone ($39.95, $49.95 beginning March 1 1995) *COMMERCIAL*
  This is a multimedia CD-ROM for the Apple Macintosh from Lenticular Press
(College Station, TX).  It includes the huge Nimbus 7 TOMS database of
stratospheric ozone measurements; global and hemispheric daily, monthly,
and climatological maps, and numerical data for the entire 14.5-year record,
more than 16,000 maps and 500 MB of data in all.
  Contact:  Lenticular Press, P.O. Box 10413, College Station, TX  77842-0413.
409/693-0622, 409/693-0729 fax, [e-mail].


C. Miscellaneous

NASA discs:
  Various discs available, including:  Voyager spacecraft images (12 discs,
under $20 each!), Viking images of Mars, Magellan Venus data, Halley's
comet data (25 discs), excerpts from astronomical catalogs, and more.
  Contact:  NSSDC (NASA Space Science Data Center), Code 933.4, NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD  20771.  301/286-6695.  They
also publish a free newsletter.

CD-ROM, INC:        *COMMERCIAL*
  Several hundred discs available, including:  "GRIPS 2" high resolution
images of topography, Landsat, vegetation maps, plus software ($49),
"JEDI" 3 discs full of earth, space, and sea science data intended for
school use ($31), 13 business/economic discs, >50 literature and
entertainment discs, >40 health-related discs, many science discs.
Prices range from $29-$895.  Free catalog available from them.
  Contact:  CD-ROM, Inc, 1667 Cole Blvd. Suite 400, Golden, CO  80401.
303/526-7600, FAX [phone].

Digital Chart of the World ($200):
  The Digital Chart of the World (DCW) is a comprehensive 1:1,000,000-scale
vector basemap of the world containing cartographic, attribute, and
textual data.  It is provided with software that permits the database to
be accessed, queried, and displayed on PC-class computers.  The primary
source for the database is the U.S. Defense Mapping Agency (DMA) Operational
Navigation Chart (ONC) series.
  There are 4 discs:   (1)North America, (2)Europe/Northern Asia, (3)South
American/Africa/Antarctica, and (4)Southern Asia/Australia.  The data are
organized into 17 thematic coverages, including political boundaries and
ocean coast lines, cities, transportation networks, drainage, land cover,
and elevation contours.
  Contact:  USGS Open File Section, Box 25286, Denver, CO  80225.
303/236-7476.

GOES Space Environment Data (price unknown):
  This disk includes data from January 1986 - April 1994 in 1-minute and
5-minute averages.  Includes measurements of the 3 components of the
Earth's magnetic field, whole-sun X-ray fluxes for the 0.5-to-4.0 and
1-to-8 Angstrom wavelength bands, photon, alpha particle, and electron fluxes.
  The CD-ROM includes software to display and analyze the Space Environment
Monitor data.  DOS and IDL (Interactive Data Language) versions of the
software allow the use of data on many platforms.
  Contact:  Solar-Terrestrial Physics Division, National Geophysical Data
Center, NOAA Code E/GC2, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO  80303.  303/497-6761,
fax [phone], email [e-mail].

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Subject: Data Centers

These sites maintain data archives for use by scientists.  Usually,
researchers affiliated with a data center can use the data on-site for
free, but other researchers who require tapes or other media must
pay a small charge for data transfer.

Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC):
  Research and distribution center for data related to carbon dioxide,
methane, and other trace gas emissions; the carbon cycle; and other
climate-change topics.  You can access catalog information by FTP (see
part 1).  Datasets are available on various media including CD-ROM and
magnetic tape.  They also publish a free newsletter.
  Contact: CDIAC, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P. O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge,
TN  37831-6335. 615/574-0390, FAX [phone], email [e-mail].

Langley Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC):
  Archive and distribution center for radiation budget, cloud, aerosol, and
tropospheric chemistry data.  You can access catalog information by telnet
(see part 1).  Data are available via FTP, tape and CD-ROM.
  Contact:  Langley DAAC, NASA Langley Research Center, MS 157B, Hampton,
VA  23681-0001 804/864-8656, FAX [phone],
email [e-mail].

NASA Space Science Data Center (NSSDC):
  Astronomical and atmospheric data.  You can access catalog information by
FTP or telnet (see part 1).
  Contact: NSSDC, Code 933.4, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt,
MD  20771.  301/286-6695.

National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR):
  Over 400 datasets available to the research community on various media.
You can access catalog information by FTP (see part 1).
  Contact: NCAR Data Support Section, PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO  80307.
303/497-1219, FAX [phone], email [e-mail].
  (DISCLAIMER:  NCAR is a non-profit government organization operated by
UCAR under a grant from the NSF.  Our charges reflect the actual cost of
data retrieval and magnetic media.  I receive no benefit from you ordering
data.  Please, research-related inquiries only.)

National Climatic Data Center (NCDC):  NCDC, Federal Building, Asheville,
NC 28801.  704/271-4800, FAX [phone], email [e-mail].

National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC):  NGDC, 325 Broadway, Boulder,
CO  80303.  303/497-6958,  [e-mail].

United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)/Global Resource Information
Database (GRID):
  Digital environmental data and information related to the Earth's
surface, oceans and atmosphere, free of charge to non-commercial users.
Typical global data sets include elevation, hydrology, soils, life zones,
vegetation, wetlands, climate, natural/physical boundaries, earthquake
hazards, vegetation index (NOAA/GVI), human population etc.
  For a free catalog of global datasets, contact:  Facility Manager,
UNEP/GRID-Geneva, 6 rue de la Gabelle, CH-1227 Carouge, Geneva SWITZERLAND.
(0041-22) 343-8660, FAX [phone], email [e-mail]
or [e-mail].
  For a free catalog of datasets for Africa and Latin America, contact:
Facility Manager, UNEP/GRID-Nairobi, P. O. Box 30552, Nairobi, KENYA.
(00254-2) 230-800, FAX [phone].
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