NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland maintains the Global Change Master Directory, one of the largest (if not *the* largest) collections of links to data I’ve found on the Internet, somewhere on the order of 15,000. While the header refers to “Earth science data and services”, it’s not limiting itself to the traditional definition of “Earth science” there (i.e. fields like geology, geophysics, meteorology, etc.).
The data is initially divided into 14 broad groupings:
- Agriculture
- Atmosphere
- Biosphere
- Biological Classification
- Climate Indicators
- Cryosphere
- Human Dimensions
- Land Surface
- Oceans
- Paleoclimate
- Solid Earth
- Spectral/Engineering
- Sun-Earth Interactions
- Terrestrial Hydrosphere
Going to these pages, you’ll find the topics broken down further into subtopics, and even sub-sub-topics. For example, under Climate Indicators, you’ll find sub-topics for:
- Air Temperature Indices
- Drought/Precipitation Indices
- Humidity Indices
- Hydrologic/Ocean Indices
- Ocean/SST Indices
- Teleconnections
You can also search for data by map, date or location name. This is a “must-bookmark” data resource.
Other posts in the Climate Change series
- Digital Atlas Of North American Woody Plants
- Mapping Carbon Dioxide
- More Carbon Dioxide Maps
- FAO World Climate Data
- Ice Age Palaeovegetation Maps
- Geothermal Resources Data
- Calculating And Mapping Climatic Change With EdGCM
- Downloaded US Weather Forecast Data In GIS Format
- The Global Change Master Directory: A "Must-Have" Collection Of Data Links
- National Solar Radiation Database
- Glaciers Of The American West
- Stormpulse
- Data Overlays For Google Earth
- Clickable World Climate Map
- Global Map of Human Impacts to Marine Ecosystems
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