Links related to RCGs research

• International Council for Science (ICSU)
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
• IPCC Fourth Assessment report (FAR), Press release with clear statements.
• Sweden 2007: "Klimat- och sårbarhetsutredningen.". Assessment on possible future climate change impacts for Sweden.
• The Göteborg Atmospheric Science Centre (GAC)
• World Climate Research Porgramme (WCRP) at WMO
• MPI für Meteorologie -- Decadal Atlantic Variability Intercomparison Study (DAVIS)
• The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). Website from LDEO Climate Group
• Ocean Climate Group at Göteborg University
• The climateprediction.net experiment. Producing a forecast for 21st century climate with global efforts.
• realclimate.org
• Rossby Centre. Centre for Climate Research and modelling located at SMHI.
• Climate Analysis Group, University of Reading UK
• The ENSEMBLES project of the EC – integrating climate change impacts studies into an ensemble prediction system
• WRF model users site

Satellite images & Weather Charts

• Surface Pressure Forecast (and more) from The Hadley Centre
• Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI). Large educational resource (Kunskapsbanken).
• Forecast from met.no: yr.no (also nice animation of latest satellite images)
• EUMETSAT - Monitoring weather and climate from space. Real-time database and huge 'case-study' area (!!) in their Image gallery.
• Dundee Satellite Receiving Station - up-to-date archive of images from NOAA, SeaStar, Terra and Aqua polar orbiting satellites. (day-by-day archive)

Climate & Extremes

• World Weather and Climate Extremes Archive
• ESWD: European Severe Weather Database
• CPC: Climate Prediction Center (NOAA, focus on US)
• ETCCDI: Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices.
• ETCCDI/CRD Climate Change Indices. Data, Software and Manuals. Including a global land-based climate extremes dataset (comparing 27 indices).
• Global measured extremes of temperature and precipitation. Site from NOAA. Map showing globally recorded temperature and precipitation extremes.
• Climatic Extremes and Weather events. Site from NOAA. Extensive data on U.S. events mainly but even some Global Climate Change issues.
• European research project 'EMULATE'

Climate Data

• Russia's Weather Server. Download data from 5000 worldwide stations (recent 10 years)
• The KNMI Climate Explorer. Select and download all from observations to ensembles!!!
• NAO data at NOAA GPC
• Data Archive at JISAO (Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean).
• NOAA Climate Program Office: Climate Change Data & Detection. Good educational resource as well.
• ECA&D: European Climate Assessment and Dataset. Daily data over Europe.
• HadEX - global climate extremes indices. Comprises of 27 indices of temperature and precipitation on a 2.5° x 3.75° grid from 1951 to 2003. ( closely linked to ETCCDI, see above)
• The IPCC Data Distribution Centre. All about data, scenarios and GCM used by and for IPCC
• PCMDI: Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison. Hosting detailed versions of the IPCC scenarios and model runs. Also detailed descriptions about data available from IPCC and about all the GCMs.
• CERA: World Data Center for Climate, Hamburg
• BADC: British Atmospheric Data Centre. Huge datasource. Many model experiments.
• CISL Research Data Archive. Data for atmospheric and geosciences research. Huge archive!!.
• NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis. 1948-today, down to 6-hourly resolution.
• ECMWF: European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.
• World Climate Data and Maps. German Weather Service (DWD). For example: gridded (0.5, 1, 2.5°) 50-year monthly precipitation climatology 1951-2000 for global land areas.
• NCDC: National Climate Data Center. Amongst others: GHCN (Global Historical Climatological Network) data. Daily and monthly observational data worldwide.
• hadobs.org - Met Office Hadley Centre observations datasets.
• List of High-resolution gridded datasets hosted at CRU and the Tyndall Centre.
• ENSEMBLES: Probabilistic regional climate information for impacts assessments. Large download section for simulations !
• Web portals for Climate Data Access and Statistical Downscaling
• ClimGen. Spatial climate scenario generator maintained by Tim Osborn at CRU. Also link to SCENGEN.
• NASA Goddard DAAC Earth System Science Educational Home Page

GEO and GIS data

Global

• Data and Maps (GIS ready) from the European Environment Agency (e.g. landuse 100m, soil,pollution)
• Atlas of the biosphere. Thematic data, GIS ready.
• GLCF - Global Land Cover Facility. Satellite images (and more) asily accessible.
• NCAR GIS Portal. Links to huge amount of last but not least global datasets (Hydrology, Landcover etc). Try!!
• Global Landcover 2000 Datasets
• Free GIS, Remote Sensing, Spatial & Hydrology Data at http://free-gis-data.blogspot.com/. Huge compilation of datasources.
• Hydrological Database HYDRO1k. Global hydrological parameters derived from GTOPO30.
• Geological maps and data.
• Worldwide LandSat Images for 1990 and 2000.
• World Soil Information, huge download area.
• The USGS Land Cover Institute (LCI). Landcover maps globally and by continent.
• GIS climate change scenarios. CCSM simulations, 20c and future, many variables, SHP and txt.
• European Soil Portal Data and Maps about soiltypes, soil degradation, pH etc. Top source to start with.
• GoGeo!. The place to discover geospatial information and services for those in education and research. Links to UK and international data and portals. Useful!
• WMS server list. List of servers providing GIS layer data
• Free Map Tools - Maps u can make use of. Some Useful and some fancy tools, e.g. distance between two points on earth. Try!
• The Open Source Geospatial Foundation: osgeo.org
• ASTER global DEM 30m
• Worldclim.org Global climate data (past, present, future) for GIS
• Baltic GIS Portal (also data for whole Europe)
• Free Geography Tools. Exploring the world of free tools for GIS, GPS ...
• Global Change Master Directory. Discover Earth science data and services. TOP RESOURCE!!
• The Map Machine. on National Geographic. Large Mapping possibilities. E.g. thematic maps, satellite maps etc.
• SRTM 90. (almost) global high-resolution 90m elevation data
• GTOPO 30. Global elevation data, 30sec (1km resolution)
• FreeGIS database
• Free Maps and GIS layers
• GIS data depot. Free GIS data, worldwide.
• GIS data from ESRI: click here
• Freely available GEO data (only in German). E.g. links to Digital Height data.
• Very huge (!!)GIS WWW Resource List, University of Edinburgh
• United Nations GEOdata Portal. Huge resource, download in different formats.
• UNEP web resources. GIS applications and datadownloads. Amongst other links on this site: Disaster Risk Index Analysis Tool
• GIS data depot
• Terrainmap.com. Huge source for Digital Elevation Modeling
• Elevation data, Latest Maps, GIS Data and Imagery From Around The World. Commercial source but good for orientation!! here
• Global Elevation Data !!
• DG Terrain Viewer and useful download links for global elevation data.
• ETOPO1 Global Relief Model. 1 arc-minute global relief model of Earth's surface that integrates land topography and ocean bathymetry
• Volcanoes of the world, pictures and Science. stromboli online at swissedu.ch
• Land Surveying Units and Resources. Knowledgebase and links around lan surveying, GIS and GPS.

Sweden

• Digitala Kartbiblioteket (Lantmäteriet), Digital Map Library Sweden
• Free Swedenmaps from Lantmäteriet.
• Map services from the Swedish Geological Survey (SGU)
• GIS data to look at and download. Excellent sources. Länsstyrelsernas GIS-tjänster (also subsites, here, here, here)
• Baltic Sea Region GIS, Maps and Statistical Database (click here). E.g. Landcoverinformation.

WMS data (GIS ready)

• High resolution orthofotos and maps for the province of Aragon/Spain

Statistical methods

• Useful links to webresources on statistics and software. statistical links (CAG, Univ. Reading)