Global Climate Data

Climate classification and climatic regions
Course module on climate controls from Univ. South Carolina
Global climate maps
Regional climate maps
World climate data: enter a place name to get tabulated results
Climographs of selected U.S. cities
U.S. National 1961-1990 climate normals
Climatology and drought
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Exhibit Hall
Global precipitation monitoring
 El Nino/Southern Oscillation Monitor
Monthly Sea-Surface Temperature Anomalies, 1981-1997
(note: there's a time line underneath the map - point and click to any date on the line)
LDEO Climate Data Catalog
Introduction to Climate Data

Monsoons

Monsoon Page

The Asian Monsoon from the GEOS-1 Multiyear Assimilation

Oceanographic Data

LDEO Climate Data Catalog (focus on the ocean climatology option here)
Ocean Atlas of Hawaii
NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Lab Physical Oceanography Division

Atlantic Climate Change Program (note: access to ACCP newsletters on specific research topics)
Pan American Climate Studies

        Drifting Buoy Data Assembly Center Home Page

WORLD OCEAN CIRCULATION EXPERIMENT (WOCE)
TMAP Numerical Ocean Modeling Experiments (includes simulations of 1982-83 El Nino)
The Tropical Atmosphere Project

El Nino

Latest El Nino update
Tutorial on the ENSO cycle
El Nino update from Climatic Prediction Center
The Impact of El Niño on Equatorial Pacific CO2 Fluxes
Understanding and predicting ENSO
La Nina - new from Climate Prediction Center
Impacts of La Nina on hurricane outlook

Global Change and Climatic Warming

U.S. Global Change Research Program
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
EPA's Global Warming Web Site
NOAA's Frequently Asked Questions on global warming
A new perspective on recent global warming
NOAA Climate Prediction Center
Global Survey of CO2 in the Oceans
The Science of Global Warming
Climate Observations Substantiate Global Warming Models
Global Climate Perspectives System (GCPS) Climatological Products
Global temperature trends
Global and hemispheric temperature curves
Regional temperature change
Global climate change: Congressional Research Service Issue Brief (Sept. 2000)
Climate and global change: articles from American Geophysical Union
Global warming: understanding the forecast
Global measured extremes of temperature and precipitation