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Sea ice concentration is both an indicator and driver of high-latitude climate change with strong societal and ecological importance. It is a key boundary condition for atmospheric models (including those used in atmospheric reanalyses) and a benchmark for…
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The principal component (PC)-based indices of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) are the time series of the leading Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) of SLP anomalies over the Atlantic sector, 20°-80°N, 90°W-40°E. These indices are used to measure the NAO…
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- ascii
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- Monthly, Seasonal, Annual
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- Atlantic Ocean
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- Climate Analysis Section (CAS) Data Catalog
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- Hurrell, James, Phillips, Adam

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Extending back to 1850 and frequently updated, HadCRUT4 is the longest data set of its type. HadCRUT4 is a combination of the global land surface temperature data set, CRUTEM4 and the global SST data set, HadSST3. HadCRUT4 is different from the most closely…
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Atmosphere Air Temperature Ocean SST - sea surface temperature-
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- Climatology, Monthly
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- Global
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Global surface temperature data sets are an essential resource for monitoring and understanding climate variability and climate change. The most commonly used data sets combine historical observations of near surface air temperatures at land stations with…
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Atmosphere Air Temperature Air Temperature at 2m Ocean SST - sea surface temperature-
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- Climatology, Monthly
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- Global
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- Overview / Comparison page
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Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Station data (CHIRPS) is a quasi-global (50S - 50N), land-only rainfall dataset with a range of temporal and spatial resolutions depending on the region and the time period. Data can be found at 0.05 deg or 0.1…
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- Touma, Danielle, Martinez, Carlos

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The width of an annual tree ring is a very simple indicator of the character of that year’s weather, but collectively the global network of tree-ring width measurements represents an invaluable resource for high-resolution paleoclimatology.
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- Annual
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- Global
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- St. George, Scott

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IMERG (Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for the Global Precipitation Measurement) is NASA's updated precipitation algorithm, while the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission is an international satellite mission launched by NASA and JAXA on Feb. 27…
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- Huffman, George J.

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The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) is a joint space mission between NASA and Japan's National Space Development Agency designed to monitor and study tropical and subtropical precipitation and the associated release of energy. The mission uses 5…
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- Sub-daily, Daily, Monthly
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- Tropics
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- Obs4MIPS, Climate Analysis Section (CAS) Data Catalog
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- Huffman, George J., Pendergrass, Angeline

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The North Pacific Index (NP index or NPI) is the area-weighted sea level pressure over the region 30°N-65°N, 160°E-140°W. The NP index is defined to measure interannual to decadal variations in the atmospheric circulation. The dominant atmosphere-ocean relation…
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- ascii
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- Monthly, Seasonal
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- Climate Analysis Section (CAS) Data Catalog
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- Hurrell, James, Phillips, Adam

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The Amundsen Sea Low (ASL) is a climatological low pressure center located over the extreme southern Pacific Ocean, off the coast of West Antarctica. Atmospheric variability in this region is larger than anywhere else in the Southern Hemisphere, and exhibits…
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- Monthly, Seasonal, Annual
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- Hosking, Scott