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Additional ECS Information Links

Climate Information

    Observations and Data

• NASA - Giovanni data display portal
• NOAA - Climate Webpage
• NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory - current satellite environmental impact imagery
• NWS Office Homepages
• CPC Annual, Monthly, Pentad Means
• NOAA Climate Analysis
• Climate Program Data
• WorldClimate.com - worldwide temperature and precipitation data
• Antarctic Weather & Climate
• NOAA Climate Prediction Center Products
• National Ice Center
• Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow Network (CoCoRaHS)

    Historical Information

• Station Summaries
• NCDC Reports
• U.S. Climate Maps
• Regional Climate Centers
• State Climatologists
• NASA Earth Science Data Records
• World Climate Charts
• NOAA History
• NOAA National Oceanic Data Center data sets and products

Climate Variability

• Sun and Climate
• NASA Irradiance Data
• NOAA - PMEL El Niño Page
• NOAA - PMEL La Niña Page
• NASA El Niño, La Niña, PDO Page
• Climate System Oscillations:
  • Pacific Decadal Oscillation
  • Pacific Decadal Oscillation - 2
  • Pacific Decadal Oscillation - 3
  • Pacific - North American Patterns
  • North Atlantic Oscillation
  • North Atlantic Oscillation - 2
  • Arctic Oscillation
  • Antarctic Oscillation
• UCSD Exptl. Climate Prediction Center
• Scripps Exptl. El Niño Forecast
• GEWEX Global Data Sets
• North American Drought Monitor

Climate Change

    Climate Change Asessments and Information

• IPCC 4th Report (4AR)
  • 4AR Science Basis
  • 4AR Impacts, Adaptation & Vulnerability
  • 4AR Mitigation of Climate Change
• U.S. Dept. of State Climate Change
• U.S. EPA Climate Change
• Center for Climate Strategies

    Models

• NOAA OAR Climate Research
• Climate Models
• Nature Conservancy "Climate Wizard"

Societal Interactions and Climate Policy

• The National Academies
• USGS Global Change
• USDA Global Change Research Program
• UCAR Global Change Instruction Program
• NCAR
• Earth Portal
• WHO Climate Change & Human Health
• UNESCO Climate Change

Extras

• Global Climate Pages:
  • Canada Atlas of Climate
  • European Commission Climate page
  • World weather from WMO pages (including climatology links)
  • World weather and climate page
  • World geographic data
  
  
• Pew Center on Global Climate Change
• PALEOMAP Project global paleo-animations and views
• Terminologies/Glossaries:
  • Solar Radiation Terms
  • Satellite Terms
  • Atmospheric Terms
  • Oceanographic Terms
  • Hydrologic Terms
  • National Snow and Ice Data Center Arctic Climatology and Meteorology Glossary
• AMS Policy Program's Environmental Science Seminar Series archives
• Globally distributed personal computer network working on climate forecasting:
      To join - Climateprediction.net
• Education:
  • Student Resources/Career Information
  • NSES, Framework for K-12 Science Education
  • U.S. governmental websites with climate information:
    • U.S./ Global Change Research Information Office Ask Dr. Global Change
    • NASA websites:
      • Global Climate Change
      • My NASA Data
      • Looking at Earth
      • Visible Earth
      • Goddard Space Flight Center Climate page
      • Marshall Space Flight Center Earth Science Office
      • Goddard Institute for Space Studies Earth Climate course
      • Langley Atmospheric Science Data Center Renewable Energy Resource Web Site
    • NOAA websites:
      • NOAA Education Office Climate Change and our Planet
      • NOAA Climate Program Office Education page
      • NCDC Education Activities
    • U.S. Dept. of Energy, Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program Education page
    • U.S. Environment Protection Agency Environmental Education Resources
  • University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) and the National Corporation for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) websites:
    • UCAR Educator's Bridge
    • UCAR COMET Program climate modules
    • UCAR topics: background, in-depth
    • UCAR Windows to the Universe - Climate and Global Change
    • NCAR Online Education (including climate courses)
  • Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison Global and Regional Climate Change course modules
  • Southeast Regional Climate Center Climate Kids
  • American Association of Geographers Teaching About Global Climate Change
  • Berkeley Lawrence Hall of Science Global Systems Science High School Curriculum
  • Climate Change Education .Org Web Portal
  • San Francisco's Exploratorium Global Climate Change Research Explorer
• Tools:
  • US Map - West, East
  • Blank US Map
  • Unit Conversions
  • Distance between Lat./Long. points

• Climate Science for Today's World Teacher's Guide

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