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
I don’t below I saw this one in the lists above:
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SolarCycle/
What is the total number of surface stations throughout the world? How many are in the U.S. compared to ROW?
REPLY: I beleive about 12,000, with the USA having the majority. John Goetz has studied this extensively and could probably provide an answer.
Great idea! You’re the best-thank you! Here’s one of my favorites for tracking El Nino-La Nina. (Sea surface temp anomalies) If it’s a duplicate-forgive me.
Atlantic
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/hurricane/atlsst.gif
Pacific
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/hurricane/pacsst.gif
Anthony, this is really useful, it looks like an extension of my bookmarks!
What would be even more helpful would be if you or someone else could keep up to date the file 4metrics_temp_anomalies.txt , containing GISS, HADCRU, UAH, RSS, that you posted here a few months ago. Any volunteers?
I can see I will be adding some useful links to my list!
Errata for my initial list::
Map of Raw Temperature (USA)
http://www.climateaudit.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/usgrid79.gif
Map of GISS-Adjusted Temperature (USA)
http://www.climateaudit.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/usgrid81.gif
The second not is in error. It is NOAA USHCN-1 adjustmded, not GISS
Unfortunately USHCN-2 is even worse.
A few more suggestions:
Sea Ice:
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
Regional Ice Cover (more reliable and detailed than cryosphere):
http://ice-glaces.ec.gc.ca/Ice_Can/CMMBCTCA.gif
http://www.dmi.dk/dmi/index/gronland/iskort.htm#ugekort
http://retro.met.no/kyst_og_hav/iskart.html
Snow cover:
http://moe.met.fsu.edu/snow/
http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/
http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/nsa/
An excellent danish work on Jakobshavns Isbrae in particular and the Greenland icecap in general :
http://www.geus.dk/publications/bull/nr14/index-uk.htm
(the danes have been studying the icecap for more than a century and are rather less prone to hasty conclusions than anglosaxon scientists)
The second “note”. (I just hate it when my Errata needs errata.)
Off topic…new report!
Hurricane number not dependent on warming:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,356549,00.html
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,554058,00.html
I’m sure this report will be popping up more and more in the next few days.
I just get a kick out of the Spiegel intro,
In English:
“A new study prophesizes fewer hurricanes from now until the year 2100.
The question has occupied the minds of atmospheric researchers for years: Does or doesn’t global climate change increase the number and strength of hurricanes in the Atlantic?
A new simulation now comes to the result that the number of huricanes in the USA may decrease by a up to 30%.
The “question”!
So much for the science being settled!
find it a bit disturbing when a scientist (palaeontologist) and Australian of the Year (2007) claims
Flannery isn’t a real scientist. He majored in english lit and somehow moved on to digging up kangaroo fossils. Worked mostly as a museum administrator.
Wow! I’ve been away from the womb (so to speak) for 16 hours and what do we have… a veritable encyclopedia of resources!
Way to go! Now I have to visit each and see if they will work on the Climate Clinic website. By the way Anthony, as I continue populating CC with resources, I’m thinking of breaking them down by levels (introductory, intermediate, and advanced) and by main topics within each level. If you’re thinking the same thing, I’ll “plunder” what you have and vice versa.
And Evan, you’re head and shoulders above all of us in the resource category!
Jack Koenig, Editor
The Mysterious Climate Project
http://www.climateclinic.com
The Best Global Warming Videos on the Internet, Part I: Documentaries
The Best Global Warming Videos on the Internet, Part II: Lectures
The Best Global Warming Videos on the Internet, Part III: Debates
The Best Global Warming Videos on the Internet, Part IV: Short Videos
The Best Global Warming Videos on the Internet, Part V: Humor
The Best Global Warming Videos on the Internet, Part VI: Updates & Additions
My frequent haunts possibly not already mentioned by Evan:
Solar events
http://space.rice.edu/ISTP/justdials.html
ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/STP/SOLAR_DATA/SUNSPOT_NUMBERS/
http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/images/bfly.gif
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Solar
http://www.lmsal.com/solarsoft/latest_events/
http://www.dxlc.com/solar/
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/latest/DSD.txt
Terrestrial events
http://www.gdacs.org/index.asp
http://www.volcano.si.edu/reports/usgs/
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/
Thanks, all. A few cuts and pastes and we are all better off than we were. There’s lots of good stuff here i don’t have.
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Death
and Death Rates Due to Extreme Weather Events: Global and U.S.
Trends, 1900-2006,
Jan Janssens has listed his data sources for his solar trends analyses:
http://users.telenet.be/j.janssens/SC23web/SCweb.pdf
He also cites his data sources in his “Reconstructing Climate Change” paper, including his own set of raw & normalized data:
http://users.telenet.be/j.janssens/Climate2007/Rawdata.txt http://users.telenet.be/j.janssens/Climate2007/Normalized.txt
Reconstructing Climate Change:
http://users.telenet.be/j.janssens/Climate2007/Climatereconstruction.html
FWIW, this is worth the read, a lay-understandable effort at hierarchically reconstructing the various contributing factors in global temperatures.
Does this mean I can scrub my desktop of the icons now covering up the wallpaper of my main squeeze????? Lately I’ve been kissing the weather report goodnight instead of the tender screen lips of my main man.
A meteorologist like Anthony might cringe at the title, but I suggest we start a section called “10 inches of partly cloudy”, for some absolute bust climate forecasts. The idea is that next time some agency comes out with a widely-quoted prophecy of doom and gloom, we can point to their previous prophecies that failed. Here are 2 or 3 to start it off…
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/10mar_stormwarning.htm from which I quote…
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Like most experts in the field, Hathaway has confidence in the conveyor belt model and agrees with Dikpati that the next solar maximum should be a doozy. But he disagrees with one point. Dikpati’s forecast puts Solar Max at 2012. Hathaway believes it will arrive sooner, in 2010 or 2011.
“History shows that big sunspot cycles ‘ramp up’ faster than small ones,” he says. “I expect to see the first sunspots of the next cycle appear in late 2006 or 2007—and Solar Max to be underway by 2010 or 2011.”
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It’s currently May 21, 2008, and we’re still waiting for cycle 24 to take over from cycle 23.
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2007/pr20070104.html from which I quote…
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Met Office global forecast for 2007
* Global temperature for 2007 is expected to be 0.54 °C above the long-term (1961-1990) average of 14.0 °C;
* There is a 60% probability that 2007 will be as warm or warmer than the current warmest year (1998 was +0.52 °C above the long-term 1961-1990 average).
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It actually turned out to be the 8th, not 1st warmest, at +0.402
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2008/pr20080103.html wherein it says…
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Global temperature 2008: Another top-ten year
[…deletia…]
Met Office forecast for global temperature for 2008
Global temperature for 2008 is expected to be 0.37 °C above the long-term (1961-1990) average of 14.0 °C, the coolest year since 2000, when the value was 0.24 °C.
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We only have 1/3rd of the year’s stats (to end of April), so it may be a bit early to call this a bust. So far, we’re at +0.230, which would rank #14 and the coolest year since 1996.
Interesting link to “Heat Burst” (HB) phenomenon (and to Aberdeen, SD Weather Office):
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/abr/science/heatburst.php
Links to various weather station networks in South Dakota.
http://climate.sdstate.edu/w_info/Maps/stations/stations.shtm
High Plains Regional Climate Center:
http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/index.php