What is the Climate Data Guide?

An insider's view of data strengths and limitations. 

Like an insider's guidebook to an unexplored country, the Climate Data Guide provides the key insights needed to select the data that best align with your goals, including critiques of data sets by experts from the research community. We invite you to learn from their insights and share your own.

The Climate Data Guide is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation.

Climate Data Trends

Announce newly available data, data portals, publications, & perspectives
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Billion-dollar decisions held up by poor use of climate data [link]
NASA previews updates to Global Change Master Directory [link]
European Network coordinates Earth System Modeling and provides links to observations used for diagnostics [link]
Climate Modeling 101 from National Academy of Sciences [link]
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Climate Data Comments, Q&A

on Atmospheric Reanalysis: Overview & Comparison Tables:

Global Data Assimilation System for Climate Forecast System has been compared with RAMA Mooring...
 Dr. Vivek Kumar Pandey (University of Allahabad)
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Arctic applications of atmospheric reanalyses Temperatures over the central Arctic in...

 John Walsh (University of Alaska, Fairbanks)
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on Climate Data Processing Software:

The scope for futher improvements in earth science data visualation and analysis exist , I feel...
 Gurunath chinthalu (Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology)
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