Help populate the new resources page

I’m finding myself constantly looking for some of the same links over and over again, often due to working form different locations where I don’t always have the same bookmarks.

Thus as an assistance not only for me, but for my readers, I’m working on a resources page that links to commonly used and discussed data sets and web presentations of data or graphs. This is different than a blogroll, since it is directed at data sources, not discussion forums.

I know a lot of you have bookmarks you’d like to share for relevant data sources for weather and climate. I’ve added a few for starters, and welcome submissions via the comments form on the new resources page which is available from the menu bar at the top of from this link.

Thanks

Anthony

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Evan Jones

Editor

May 18, 2008 5:11 pm

CoRev

May 18, 2008 5:11 pm

Anthony, take a look at my site and use whatever you need or find useful. Came to the same conclusion a couple of months ago. Hope this helps, and/or gives you some ideas. If you want to start a sharing community that would also be neat.
CoRev, editor
http://globalwarmingclearinghouse.blogspot.com
REPLY: Thank you!

Evan Jones

Editor

May 18, 2008 5:13 pm

Oops. maybe you want to move that over to your resources link.

old construction worker

May 18, 2008 5:51 pm

How about Co2 Science
http://co2science.org/index.php

Redneck

May 18, 2008 6:03 pm

Great Idea. I don’t have the time to track all the various sites on this issue down myself so this will help me a lot so I can keep up to date and have the most recent data for my debates with the AGW (Al Gore Warming) crowd.

McGrats

May 18, 2008 6:20 pm

I’ve just started populating a resource page on the http://www.climateclinic.com website. Here’s what I’ve got so far:
Heartland Institute (http://www.heartland.org/PolicyBotTopic.cfm?artTopic=558) The Heartland Institute is certainly at or near the top in providing accurate information on environmental issues in general and climate change in particular.
Watts Up With That (www.whatsupwiththat.com)
This is a blog hosted by Meteorologist Anthony Watts and draws contributing scientists and researchers from around the globe. Anthony Watts is the pioneer in discovering how equipment used by the United States Historical Climate Network (USHCN) has either morphed into a corrupted temperature gathering network or a network which has installed replacement stations in places outside the established parameters.
World Climate Report (http://www.worldclimatereport.com/)
Dr. Patrick Michaels, past president of the American Association of State Climatologists, presents a comprehensive, concise, and hard-hitting overview of global warming science. World Climate Report is categorized by date and topic, and provides citations to the current scientific literature.
Science and Environmental Policy Project (www.sepp.org)
Atmospheric physicist Dr. S. Fred Singer, Distinguished Research Professor at George Mason University and professor emeritus of environmental science at the University of Virginia, presents a weekly update on the latest global warming news.
Climate Audit (http://climateaudit.org)
Geologist Steve McIntyre, who played a key role in exposing flaws in Michael Mann’s “hockey stick” graph purporting to show unprecedented recent warming, provides near-daily updates on the latest scientific data and literature regarding global warming.
Climate Science (http://climatesci.colorado.edu/)
Dr. Roger Pielke, Sr., a meteorologist with the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University, provides near daily updates on the scientific literature related to global warming. Dr. Pielke insists that he is not a global warming “skeptic,” but does feel that global warming fears lack nuance and are substantially overstated.
Prometheus (http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus)
Dr. Roger Pielke, Jr., a professor in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Colorado, provides daily news and commentary on science policy regarding a wide variety of issues.
Jack Koenig, Editor
The Mysterious Climate Project
http://www.climateclinic.com
REPLY: Thank you for the kind words.

Eric Gamberg

May 18, 2008 6:24 pm

Western (US) Regional Climate Center
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/
USGS Real Time River flows (and historical data)
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/rt

Chris

May 18, 2008 7:53 pm

I check this site everyday:
http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/

kum dollison

May 18, 2008 8:05 pm

Is there a site that tracks Ocean Temps?
Also, “Global” monthly CO2?

Diatribical Idiot

May 18, 2008 9:47 pm

All I’ve got to say is, this Evan Jones guy has some issues… 😉
Seriously, though, I’ve tried to accumulate links into a favorites folder doing much the same thing, and this page already rocks! Nothing like a bunch of graphs and data to get the juices flowing!
Thanks for the effort.

Philip_B

May 18, 2008 10:49 pm

Current Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Plot
http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.html
BMRC’s Climate Charts (OLR anomaly maps)
http://www.bom.gov.au/bmrc/clfor/cfstaff/matw/maproom/index.htm

Paul Clark

May 19, 2008 2:12 am

Sorry for the self-plug, but:
Latest temperature data, baseline-adjusted:
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3vgl/last:12/offset:-0.146/plot/uah/last:12/plot/rss/last:12/plot/gistemp/last:12/offset:-0.238
(note HADCRUT3 now out, and follows GISTEMP back down again – obviously the March land temps were a spike)

Walter Dnes

Editor

May 19, 2008 2:24 am

Some Canadian data links
Canadian Climate Normals or Averages 1971-2000
http://www.climate.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/climate_normals/index_e.html
Canadian Climate Normals or Averages 1961-1990
http://www.climate.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/climate_normals/index_1961_1990_e.html
Canadian Monthly Climate Summaries, including temperature anomaly against 1971-2000 normals for stations that made the normals
http://www.climate.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/prods_servs/cdn_climate_summary_e.html

(Gary G) Otter

May 19, 2008 4:06 am

Kum Dollison mentioned ocean temps. Not sure if any of these would be much help (or are likely duplicates of Even Jones rather short list 😉 ), but:
http://marine.rutgers.edu/mrs/sat_data/?product=sst_comp&region=gulfmexico&nothumbs=0
http://www.weatherimages.org/index.html#water
http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/avhrr/gs/averages/index.html
http://dcz.gso.uri.edu/avhrr-archive/archive.html
I dare say, though, that all these links provide more information than our local IPCC / agw advocate, john cross!

Mike K

May 19, 2008 4:08 am

Great list already, I’d like to add http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SST/climo.html
This shows the current sea surface temperature anomolies and has been very interesting recently showing the La Nina and PDO very clearly.

Pierre Gosselin

May 19, 2008 4:45 am

Evan,
Thanks for the big effort…there’s some good stuff in there I can use.
In general
What I think would be great would be some buttons on the side showing the latest real time graphs (graphic) of climate indicators:
1. GIS world suface temps
2. UAH-MSU global temps
3. RSS
4. HadCrut
5. Sea Levels
6. Arctic and Antarctic sea ice anomalies
7. Ocean surface temperatures
8. Deep ocean temps (if they exist
9. Solar cycle graph
Simply by clicking on a button on the side, the selected graph would appear for the last 100 or so years, or 30 years as in the case of setelllite measurements, etc. .
In only a few minutes a reader could see where everything stands and is moving. Right now I have to go through all the different websites.
I’ll post what I have sometime later. Right now I have to run.
Also, a button with latest climate science news would be great.
Example, Lately we’ve had
1) The recent Nature Keenlyside report
2) The AWI report concerning Antarcic sea temps
3. The NPR ocean temp reports
And today I see: “Study Refutes Link Between Global Warming and Hurricanes”
at:

(Gary G) Otter

May 19, 2008 4:52 am

I am hoping that my last post either got caught in the spam filter, or is awaiting review… it does contain some links which answer Kum Dollison’s question, and which I hope might be helpful here.
As to the person I mentioned, john cross… I afterwards realized he does hit this blog much, I have seen him a great deal elsewhere. He is an agw advocate. There is not one single piece of work written by agw skeptics he would not diss; not one piece of pro-agw work he would not advocate.

Pierre Gosselin

May 19, 2008 4:52 am

Ooops – wrong click!
At: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,356549,00.html
Maybe this science news button could be called: Climate Development Reports.
Such reports are real heavyweights, and provide strong indications as to what is really going on with the earth’s climate. I’m always citing the 3 a.m. reports when speaking to AGW believers.
I’ve thought about starting my own site with such features, but I’m lacking the time, and people like Anthony are much better at it anyway.
My wife is already getting on my case for spending so much time on this climate subject – and perhaps rightly so.

(Gary G) Otter

May 19, 2008 4:53 am

does ‘Not’ hit this blog much, more coffee…

CoRev

May 19, 2008 5:34 am

I’ve only been doing this for @ur momisugly 2 months and the volume and work load is high if its being done manually. Anyone know what can be done to automate it?
Furthermore, I have moved away from tracking news articles. There are several sites that do that pretty well, and who cares about the misinformation being presented. There is also way too much redundancy in these articles.

deepslope

May 19, 2008 5:36 am

all i can say is: holy motherlode! Great service, thank you, Anthony.
Evan Jones’ list is amazing – hope to get organized to make my own contribution…

Joe Bodaro

May 19, 2008 7:17 am

Evan Jones your my hero

Redneck

May 19, 2008 7:32 am

Dear Anthony,
I realise that this is a bit off topic nor do I suspect it to be posted but I thought I should pass it on to you. A friend passed on to me this news story about Australian “Global Warming Expert” Dr Tim Flannery’s radical solution to global warming. I have pasted the link to this story below:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23724412-2,00.html
I find it a bit disturbing when a scientist (palaeontologist) and Australian of the Year (2007) claims that it may become necessary to pump sulphur into the atmosphere to combat global warming, which he believes is worse now than it was three years ago. He then goes on to say that “The consequences of doing that are unknown”. Even this dumb redneck knows that if you pump sulphur, in the form of sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere you end up creating acid rain. That is why smelters and coal fired electricty generating stations have scrubbers to limit or eliminate acid rain which would otherwise occur downwind of such facilities. What I find disturbing is that I would expect someone like Al Gore to say something that foolish after all he is a politician and does not hold any science degree. But for a scientist like Flannery to make such an outrageous statement is frightening.

Novoburgo

May 19, 2008 7:43 am

Hope this isn’t redundant, second try at this post:
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/

Bill Alexander

May 19, 2008 8:27 am

See:
http://www.solarcycle24.com/
(Trend charts and Forums)
and
Solaemon
http://users.telenet.be/j.janssens/Engwelcome.html
The Trend Chart “Zero Sunspot Days by Month” is an interesting overview in light of Solaemon’s data and also
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=675038&id=8&qs=No%3D10%26N%3D4294826660%2B42
On the Importance of Cycle Minimum in Sunspot Cycle Prediction
Wilson, Robert M.; Hathaway, David H.; Reichmann, Edwin J.
Aug. 1996
“The characteristics of the minima between sunspot cycles are found to provide important information for predicting the amplitude and timing of the following cycle.”
and
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=786599&id=5&qs=No%3D10%26N%3D4294826660%2B42
On Determining the Rise, Size, and Duration Classes of a Sunspot Cycle
Wilson, Robert M.; Hathaway, David H.; Reichmann, Edwin J
Sept. 1996
“Thus, if we could know early in the cycle whether or not it could be characterized as being fast or slow rising, then we could also have an indication of the expected size (amplitude class) of the cycle and its length (bimodal class).”

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