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Search and access 214 data sets covering the Atmosphere, Ocean, Land and more. Explore climate indices, reanalyses and satellite data and understand their application to climate model metrics. This is the only data portal that combines data discovery, metadata, figures and world-class expertise on the strengths, limitations and applications of climate data. Discover it now.

Data Set Overviews

Compare the attributes, strengths and limitations of multiple data sets

Atmospheric Reanalysis: Overview & Comparison Tables

Cloud Dataset Overview

Change of surface temperatures in 5 global data sets. credit: NCAR, climatedataguide

Global Temperature Data Sets: Overview & Comparison Table

Overview: Climate Indices

Precipitation Data Sets: Overview & Comparison table

Arctic sea ice climatologies for September

Sea Ice Concentration data: Overview, Comparison table and graphs

Arctic sea ice volume anomalies from PIOMASS

Sea Ice Thickness Data Sets: Overview & Comparison Table

Map of root zone soil moisture for May 2016 based on the SMOS product (credit: ESA)

Soil Moisture Data Sets: Overview & Comparison Tables

SST Data Sets: Overview & Comparison Table

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Climate Data Guide Image: NOAA OI SST: SST range (C)
SST data: NOAA Optimal Interpolation (OI) SST Analysis, version 2 (OISSTv2)
ERSST v4 timeseries (contributed by B Huang)
SST data: NOAA Extended Reconstruction SSTs, Version 4
January mean precipitation in CMAP (contributed by P Arkin)
CMAP: CPC Merged Analysis of Precipitation
Arctic sea ice: NOAA OI
Sea Ice Concentration data from NOAA OI

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