Much as there is to despise with the present immoral regime with it's
negligent and stupid puppet, the USA has an awful lot going for it
still. These are some examples from the sci.meteorology FAQ sheet:

This article is copyright (c) 2000 by Tom Berg. It may be freely
distributed for non-commercial purposes only, provided that this
copyright notice and the instructions on retrieving a current copy are
not removed.

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Much of the research data is not free and is not directly available
over
the network; only metadata, or information about the data, is
available,
and you must place an order for the actual data.

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Subject: 3) Multidisciplinary Data Centers

URL:http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov
URL:telnet://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov (login "gcdir")
The Global Change Master Directory is a multidisciplinary on-line
information system containing descriptions of Earth and space science
data holdings available to the science community. These include data
from
NASA, NOAA, NCAR, USGS, DOE (CDIAC), EPA, NSF and other U.S. and
international agencies, universities, and research centers.
For telnet access, login as "gcdir".

URL:http://www.ucar.edu/dss/index.html
URL:ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Data Support Section
maintains a large archive of a variety of atmospheric, oceanic, and
geophysical datasets, encompassing most subdisciplines. This site
contains information (metadata) on available datasets; a few small
datasets are directly available.

URL:http://www.esdim.noaa.gov
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Environmental
Information Services Home Page. This "master page" links to the Web
pages of the various NOAA Data Centers:
National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) URL:http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/
National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC)
URL:http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/
National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
URL:http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/
You can search the NOAA dataset catalog, which covers all the NOAA
Data
Centers. The individual data centers are also listed elsewhere in this
document.

URL:http://eos.nasa.gov
Home page for Earth Observing System (EOS). This "master page" links
to the home pages of the various Distributed Active Archive Centers
(DAACs),
which provide data from EOS:
JPL Physical Oceanography DAAC URL:http://podaac-www.jpl.nasa.gov
Marshall Space Flight Center DAAC URL:http://wwwdaac.msfc.nasa.gov
Goddard DAAC
URL:http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/DAAC_DOCS/gdaac_home.html
Earth Resources Observation Systems DAAC
URL:http://sun1.cr.usgs.gov/landdaac/landdaac.html
National Snow and Ice Data Center DAAC
URL:http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu/NASA/GUIDE/
Langley DAAC URL:http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov
Oak Ridge National Laboratory DAAC URL:http://www-eosdis.ornl.gov
NOAA's Satellite Active Archive URL:http://www.saa.noaa.gov
Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network
(CIESIN)
URL:http://www.ciesin.org
Alaska Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Facility
URL:http://eosims.asf.alaska.edu:12355/datacenters_documents/ASF_datacent....
The individual data centers are also listed elsewhere in this
document.

URL:http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/earth/earth_home.html
National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) earth science archive
page. A new policy from the Earth Sciences and Applications Division
at NASA Headquarters directed NSSDC to distribute its holdings to
various designated archives. NSSDC no longer archives any new Earth
science data; this site describes the Earth science data transfer
activities and provides selective data and resources available to
users.

URL:http://www-mel.nrlmry.navy.mil/
Defense Modeling Simulations Office (DMSO) Master Environmental
Library (MEL). This site offers keyword searching of a directory of
all meteorological, oceanographic, and other environmental data at
Department of Defense sites such as the Fleet Numerical Oceanography
Center, Naval Research Laboratories, Air Force Global Weather Center,
etc.

URL:http://www.grid.unep.ch/gridhome.html
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Global Resource
Information Database (GRID). Global and European datasets for
environmental researchers, including vegetation and topography maps,
maps of population and other human-related items, and various
climatologies.

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Subject: 4) Climate and weather

URL:http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov
URL:ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/
URL:telnet://hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov (login "storm", password
"research")
National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) of NOAA. Inventories and
metadata for various climate datasets are available, along with
selected datasets.
Monthly Climatic Data for the World for the last several years is
available here in the directory
URL:ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/mcdw/.
This is a World Data Center A for meteorology.

URL:http://www.cdc.noaa.gov
The Climate Diagnostics Center (CDC), previously the Climate Research
Division of the ERL Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory
(CMDL), conducts diagnostic studies of climate variability on time
scales of months to centuries. CDC climatological data is archived in
netCDF format. This site gives access to metadata (information about
these datasets) which can be searched by various keywords; actual data
must be ordered from CAC by email or fill-in forms.

URL:http://nic.fb4.noaa.gov
URL:ftp://nic.fb4.noaa.gov/pub/
Climate Prediction Center. Climate products and services consisting
of operational prediction of climate variations, monitoring of the
climate system and development of data bases for determining current
global and regional climate anomalies and trends, and analysis of their
origins and linkages to the complete climate system, including ENSO
advisories and indices, and monthly mean and anomaly fields.

URL:http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/DAAC_DOCS/gdaac_home.html
Goddard Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC). Data and related
services for global change research and education. Data holdings cover
information on the upper atmosphere, atmospheric dynamics, and global
biosphere.
Products include data from Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite
(UARS), Total Ozone Mapping Satellites (TOMS), Coastal Zone Color
Scanner (CZCS), Sea-viewing Wide Field of View Sensor (SeaWiFS),
Pathfinder Advanced Very High Resolution (AVHRR) land sensor
4-Dimensional Assimilation dataset, Total Ozone Vertical Sounder (TOVS)
Pathfinder data, Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere (TOGA) Coupled
Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (COARE) Field Observation
experiment data.

URL:http://rainbow.ldgo.columbia.edu
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University's Climate
Group's server. The "Data Library" contains various climatologies for
the ocean and atmosphere, and topographic data, along with a nice
interactive system for selection and display of data.

URL:http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~rbrbrn/awsproj.html
URL:http://uwamrc.ssec.wisc.edu/amrchome.html
The Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of
Wisconsin - Madison maintains archives of Antarctic data, including
synoptic reports and satellite images.

URL:http://www.giss.nasa.gov/Data/
URL:ftp://ftp.giss.nasa.gov
Various monthly mean data files, including surface temperature
anomalies, grids of various variables used in the GCM II (General Circ.
Model). Also various maps of vegetation indices, cultivation indices,
wetland ecosystems.
The ftp machine can not be accessed using a WWW browser -- you must
ftp directly. The file "GISS.HELP" contains an index. As of Feb 96,
the ftp server's data is somewhat outdated.

URL:http://isccp.giss.nasa.gov
ISCCP C2 cloud data from GISS. This data is no longer on the main
server, above.

URL:http://strat-www.met.fu-berlin.de
Free University of Berlin Stratospheric Research Group.
Stratospheric data (heights and temperatures).

URL:http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/longpdk/
"The Long Paddock" Climatology of Australia with focus on Queensland.
Maps of monthly rainfall, SOI, SST. Information on drought and the
southern oscillation.

URL:http://thunder.atms.purdue.edu:80/toga_atlas/
Climatology of the TOGA-COARE and adjacent regions.

URL:http://www.cyberus.ca/~sorokoj/
Links to many paleoclimate resources.

URL:http://climate.sage.dri.edu
Western Regional Climate Center

URL:http://met-www.cit.cornell.edu/nrcc_home.html
Northeast Regional Climate Center

URL:http://sercc.dnr.state.sc.us/sercc.html
Southeast Regional Climate Center

URL:http://maestro.srcc.lsu.edu/srcc.html
Southern Regional Climate Center

URL:http://hpccsun.unl.edu/
High Plains Regional Climate Center

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Subject: 5) Satellite data

URL:http://www.saa.noaa.gov
URL:telnet://saa.noaa.gov
NOAA's Satellite Active Archive is a digital library of real-time and
historical satellite data from NOAA's Polar-orbiting Operational
Environmental Satellites (POES). Currently, AVHRR and TOVS data is
available.

URL:http://140.90.207.25:8080/EBB/ml/nic00.html
NOAA Satellite Information System (NOAASIS) provides
NOAA/NESDIS-operated satellite information for direct readout station
operators and users of environmental satellite data. Limited
information is provided for the satellites operated by other countries
and enitities.
Includes general information about satellites, schedules, navigation
information, publications, and more.

Added URL:http://www.nnic.noaa.gov/SOCC/SOCC_Home.html
NOAA Office of Satellite Operations home page. Bulletins, basic
information, and other information.

URL:http://www.dfd.dlr.de/
The German Remote Sensing Data Center. Satellite images, data, and
other information.

URL:http://eosims.asf.alaska.edu:12355/datacenters_documents/ASF_datacent....
Alaska Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Facility Home Page. SAR images
and derived data, AVHRR and Landsat satellite imagery.

URL:http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/dmsp.html
URL:ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/DMSP
Info about, and sample data from the NOAA Defense Meteorological
Satellite Program (DMSP). DMSP is a two satellite constellation of
near-polar orbiting, sun-synchronous satellites monitoring
meteorological, oceanographic and solar-terrestrial physics
environments.

URL:http://jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov
Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) home page. Contains general
information on ozone, ozone satellite retrieval, and information about
Earth Probe/TOMS, Meteor-3, and Nimbus-7. Ozone movies and graphs
also available.
Nimbus-7 and Meteor-3 daily gridded Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
(TOMS) ozone data is available via
URL:ftp://jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/.
user is warned that the data are not archive quality and not suitable
for publication. Data will eventually be archived with the GSFC DAAC.

URL:gopher://diamond.ssec.wisc.edu
URL:ftp://diamond.ssec.wisc.edu
The GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite)
Pathfinder Data Set was generated at SSEC using full resolution GOES
imagery from the Geostationary National Archive. Includes 8 km
products, 70 km equal area statistics products, 24 km browse of the 8
km products, and 9 panel browse of the 70 km statistics from May 4,
1987 through November 30, 1988.

URL:ftp://archive.afit.af.mil/pub/space/
Two-line element data (TLE) for a variety of satellites.

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Subject: 6) Hydrology and glaciology

URL:http://wwwdaac.msfc.nasa.gov
Marshall Space Flight Center Distributed Active Archive Center
(MSFC.DAAC).
Data holdings are primarily aimed at researchers investigating facets
of the hydrologic cycle. Available data includes SSM/I NOAA/NASA
Pathfinder Products, TOVS NOAA/NASA Pathfinder Path C1 Products, SSM/I
Antenna Temperatures and Sensor Counts, and Climatological Summaries.

URL:http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu/NASA/GUIDE/
The National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive
Center (NSIDC DAAC) maintains information about snow cover and
avalanches, glaciers and ice sheets, floating ice, ground ice and
permafrost, atmospheric ice, extra-terrestrial ices, paleoglaciology
and ice cores. Also see the NSIDC home page at
URL:http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu/.

URL:http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov
URL:gopher://gopher.nohrsc.nws.gov
URL:ftp://ftp.nohrsc.nws.gov/pub
National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center. Snow cover
measurements in US and Canada, and snow water equivalent data.

URL:http://polar.wwb.noaa.gov/seaice/
The National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Sea Ice home
page.
Contents include the most recent automated sea ice analysis for both
hemispheres and ice drift forecast guidance.

URL:http://www.dow.on.doe.ca/ice/home.ice.html
Ice Services Branch of Environment Canada. Information about
available products and services, and some sample data.

URL:ftp://meds02.met.fu-berlin.de/pub/SEA-ICE/
The Institute for Meteorology of the Free Uni Berlin provides
operation sea-ice maps. Text is mostly in German but there are some
English translations.

URL:http://www.meto.umd.edu/~alan/soil_moisture/
University of Maryland Global Soil Moisture Data Bank. A collection
of data, model output, and links to soil moisture information.

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Subject: 7) Environmental chemistry

URL:http://www-eosdis.ornl.gov
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Distributed Active Archive
Center (DAAC) provides information about the Earth's biogeochemical
dynamics (the chemical interactions among the Earth's surface, water,
and air that produce changes in the Earth and its climate) to the
global change research community, policy makers, educators, and the
general interested public.

URL:http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov:80/cdiac/
The Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) at ORNL
provides information to help international researchers, policymakers,
and educators evaluate complex environmental issues, including
potential climate change associated with elevated levels of atmospheric
carbon dioxide and other radiatively active trace gases.

URL:http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov
URL:telnet://eosdis.larc.nasa.gov (login "ims", password "larcims")
The Langley Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) archives and
distributes radiation budget, cloud, aerosol, and tropospheric
chemistry data to the general science community. Data are available
via FTP, tape and CD-ROM.
Products include data from the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
(ERBE), Surface Radiation Budget (SRB), International Satellite Cloud
Climatology Project (ISCCP), Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment
(SAGE), First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE), and Global Tropospheric
Experiment (GTE).

URL:http://www.epa.gov
URL:gopher://gopher.epa.gov
Environmental Protection Agency. A variety of publicly-accessible
databases, including air pollution data, toxic chemical release data,
and geographic data.

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Subject: 8) Geophysical and mapping data

URL:http://www.usgs.gov/data/index.html
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data products, including cartographic
data, geologic data, water data, and links to other USGS machines which
hold data or metadata archives.

URL:http://sun1.cr.usgs.gov/eros-home.html
U.S. Geological Survey's EROS Data Center (EDC). Aerial photography,
cartographic data, earth science data, hydrologic data,
landuse/landcover data, radar data, satellite and satellite derivative
data, topographic data.

URL:http://sun1.cr.usgs.gov/landdaac/landdaac.html
Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center Distributed
Active Archive Center (EDC.DAAC). Archives include land processes
data, including satellite- and aircraft-acquired data: 1km AVHRR,
Landsat Pathfinder data,
Digital Chart of the World Derived Digital Elevation Model Data
(topographical charts), SIR-C/X-SAR (Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-band
Synthetic Aperture Radar).

URL:http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov
URL:gopher://gopher.ngdc.noaa.gov
URL:ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/
The National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) of NOAA manages
environmental data in the fields of solar-terrestrial physics, solid
earth geophysics, marine geology and geophysics, paleoclimatology, and
glaciology (snow and ice). In each of these fields it also operates a
World Data Center (WDC A) discipline center. Data and metadata are
available.

URL:http://www.ucar.edu/dss/geo.html
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)'s catalog of
geophysical and vegetation datasets. Several of these datasets are
directly available via this page.

URL:http://ageninfo.tamu.edu/apl-us
URL:gopher://ageninfo.tamu.edu/11/apl-us
Shaded relief map of USA generated from 30 arc second DEM dataset.

URL:ftp://ftp.csn.org/COGS/
The Computer Oriented Geological Society (COGS) has various
mapping-related information, datasets, and software.

URL:ftp://spectrum.xerox.com/pub/map/
Various USGS and other uncopyrighted data. Includes USGS DEM and DLG
files, land use information, and some software to read these files.

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Subject: 9) Instruments and field experiments

URL:http://aprf.arl.mil
URL:ftp://aprf.arl.mil/pub
Army Research Laboratory's Atmospheric Profiler Research Facility.
Real-time, hour-averaged, qc'd, surface to stratosphere profiles of
wind, temperature, and optical/radar turbulence from the Atmospheric
Profiler Research Facility, White Sands, New Mexico. Archives back
through 1994.
This site is scheduled to close down in September 1996.

URL:http://www.joss.ucar.edu/codiac
UCAR Joint Office for Science Support. A large number of datasets
from various field projects and research programs, including CEPEX,
GCIP, STORM-FEST, TOGA-COARE, are available via "CODIAC" -- The
Cooperative Distributed Interactive Atmospheric Catalog.

URL:telnet://kuda.atd.ucar.edu (login "kuda", password "science")
Many types of atmospheric measurements and supporting data from the
Persian Gulf region during the Kuwait oil well fires (1991). Inventory
includes aircraft measurements of particulates, chemistry, radiation,
and state parameters, surface-based meteorological, air quality, and
radiation measurements, model output grids, and digital satellite
images from NOAA and DMSP polar orbiters.
For more information, contact

URL:http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/MODIS/MAS/Home.html
Information about, and data from, the MODIS Airborne Simulator
multispectral scanner.

URL:http://www.amps.gov
The US Department of Energy's Airborne Multisensor Pod System (AMPS)
collects a variety of data from multiple sensors mounted on a modified
Lockheed RP-3A. Currently the sensors include Synthetic Aperture Radar
(SAR) and MultiSensor Imaging (MSI) pods; Effluent Species
Identification (ESI) pod is currently under construction. Information
about the AMPS project and data is available.

URL:http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/sircxsar
Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
(SIR-C/X-SAR) flew on space shuttle Endeavour on two missions in 1994.
Images from these flights, and information about the instrument.

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Subject: 10) Oceanography

URL:http://diu.cms.udel.edu
URL:gopher://diu.cms.udel.edu
OCEANIC, the Ocean Information Center at the University of Delaware,
contains information about data collected for the World Ocean
Circulation Experiment (WOCE) and the Tropical Oceans and Global
Atmosphere Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA COARE).
In addition OCEANIC has a searchable international research ship
schedule database, a searchable directory of names/addresses/e-mail of
scientists involved in WOCE, and numerous links to WOCE data facilities
and other oceanographic information systems.

URL:http://www.nodc.noaa.gov
URL:gopher://gopher.nodc.noaa.gov/
National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) of NOAA. The NODC holds
physical, chemical, and biological oceanographic data collected by U.S.
Federal agencies, including the Department of Defense (primarily the
U.S. Navy); state, and local government agencies; universities and
research institutions; and private industry. A large percentage of the
oceanographic data held by NODC is of foreign origin.

URL:http://podaac-www.jpl.nasa.gov
URL:ftp://ftppodaac.jpl.nasa.gov
JPL Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center
(PO.DAAC).
Products available from PO.DAAC are largely satellite derived, and
include:
sea-surface height, surface-wind vector (and sigma-nought),
surface-wind speed, surface-wind stress vector, integrated water vapor,
atmospheric liquid water, sea-surface temperature, sea-ice extent and
concentration, heat flux, and in-situ data as it pertains to satellite
data.

URL:http://polar.wwb.noaa.gov/
NCEP Ocean Modelling Branch. Includes global wave model forecast and
sea ice information. Regional wave model output is available for
several regions. Fog model and sea ice information also available.

URL:http://www-ccs.ucsd.edu/ccs/about_datazoo.html
URL:gopher://gopher-ccs.ucsd.edu:70/11/zoo
Scripps Institute of Oceanography Center for Coastal Studies (CCS)
"Data Zoo". Data collected by various California coastal data
collection programs and studies.

URL:http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/pub/info/holdings.html
Datasets from the the U.S. Geological Survey Global Change Research
Program, an operational arm of the national U.S. Global Change Research
Program (USGCRP). Modern average global SST and polar sea ice are
available.

URL:http://www.pmel.noaa.gov
NOAA's Pacific Marine Environment Laboratory. Interactive access to
a selection of ocean climatologies and real-time and historical TAO
buoy data.

URL:http://www-aviso.cls.cnes.fr
AVISO - TOPEX/POSEIDON Home Page. Information on the French-American
TOPEX/POSEIDON satellite mission and the French active archive data
center, AVISO/Altimetry. Other information on space oceanography
related matters.

URL:http://ftp.csr.utexas.edu/sst.html
URL:ftp://ftp.csr.utexas.edu/pub/sst
Sea level anomalies are routinely computed using TOPEX/POSEIDON (T/P)
Interim Geophysical Data Records (IGDRs) by the University of Texas
Center for Space Research (UT/CSR) as soon as the data for a complete
10-day repeat cycle are available, approximately 1 to 2 weeks after the
end of a cycle.

URL:http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/Atlas/SO/Deckblatt.html
The Alfred Wegener Institute provides the Hydrographic Atlas of the
Southern Ocean.

URL:http://server.ices.inst.dk
URL:ftp://server.ices.inst.dk/dist/ocean
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) server
has several PC oceanographic products available, including a list of
country codes and ship codes, and inventories of data profiles and
research activities. For more information contact
.

URL:ftp://atlantic.ocean.fsu.edu/pub/
East coast tidal heights and winds in "pub/Tidedata", QuickBasic
IBM-PC shareware to compute tides and currents in "pub/Tides", Luyten
& Stommel oceanographic atlas in "pub/LiveAtlas", and other related
items.

URL:ftp://acoustics.whoi.edu/public/Matlab/oceans
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Ocean Acoustics Lab.
Various oceanography-related Matlab stuff.

URL:http://dutlru8.lr.tudelft.nl
Delft University of Technology. Sea surface altimetry atlas computed
from satellite data, satellite orbit determination, global windspeed
and wave height from ERS-2.

URL:http://www.ems.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wx/offshore.cgi
Penn State University Offshore Weather Data Page. Offshore weather
data from buoys, ships, and CMAN stations. 36-hour archive, updates
every 15 minutes.

URL:http://www.aodc.gov.au/Data_Inventory/table_of_contents.html
The Australian Oceanographic Data Centre (AODC) maintains a database
of mainly temperature and salinity profiles for the Australian Area of
Interest (30°N - 80°S; 20°E - 150°W), with limited quantities of
in-situ data held outside of this region. Information about the
datasets is available on the AODC server.

URL:http://www.fnoc.navy.mil
Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center. Interactive
image generation of wave height analysis and forecasts, SST analysis
and climatology. Information about the models used to generate the
images is also available.

URL:http://www.oceanweather.com/~oceanwx/data.html
Global current marine observations and significant wave height map.

URL:http://www.etl.noaa.gov/OTHdata.html
URL:ftp://netsrv.wpl.erl.gov/pub/et1/oth/
NOAA's Environmental Technology Laboratory provides an archive of
images of ocean surface wind direction for the North Atlantic Ocean
from Over-the-Horizon (OTH) Radar. OTH-B was shut down by the Air
Force on 4 April 1995 so there is no current data.

URL:http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/images.html
The Remote Sensing Group in the Division of Meteorology and Physical
Oceanography of the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric
Science. Low resolution visible and infrared imagery is collected daily
from the NOAA sun-synchronous polar orbiting satellites. Low resolution
observations (4 km.) are collected globally while high resolution
observations (1 km.) are collected from selected areas of research
interest around the globe.

Oceanography pointers and indices:

URL:http://www.mth.uea.ac.uk/ocean/oceanography.html
URL:http://www.esdim.noaa.gov/ocean_page.html
URL:http://www.whoi.edu/html/www-servers/oceanography.html
URL:http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/sio/inst/index.html
URL:http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov/other.html
URL:http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/sio/inst/index.html
URL:http://www-ccs.ucsd.edu/src_oceanography.html

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Subject: 11) Miscellaneous data

URL:http://www.ciesin.org
Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network
(CIESIN).
Data about human interactions in global environmental change from many
sources.

URL:http://www.sel.noaa.gov
URL:gopher://gopher.sel.noaa.gov
NOAA's Space Environment Laboratory (SEL) server has information
about the Sun and the environment between the Sun and the Earth,
including "space weather" and solar images

URL:ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/pub/SPACE/
Viking, Magellan, and Voyager data, and various earth-from-space
images and information.

URL:http://ageninfo.tamu.edu/eclipse
URL:gopher://ageninfo.tamu.edu/11/eclipse
MPEG of GOES-7 and GOES-8 images during May 10 1994 eclipse

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Subject: 12) Software and documentation

URL:http://grads.iges.org/grads/head.html
URL:ftp://grads.iges.org
The Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies provides GrADS (Grid
Analysis and Display System) software and documentation. GrADS is an
interactive desktop tool for the analysis and display of earth science
data.

URL:gopher://140.90.5.206
Information from the National Weather Service Telecommunication
Gateway (NWSTG) of the National Weather Service (NWS), Systems
Operations Center,about changes to data formats and transmissions
information that has not yet been published in standard source
documents, such as NWS manuals, WMO manuals, or other documents or
announcements.

URL:ftp://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/wiscombe/
A collection of scientific software written by Warren Wiscombe.
Mostly atmospheric radiation-related: Mie code, discrete ordinates
radiative transfer code, atmospheric thermodynamics code, and other
programs.

URL:http://www-ocean.tamu.edu/~baum/ocean_graphics.html
Steve Baum's collection of information about, and links to, software
for graphical presentation and numerical analysis of oceanographical
and meteorological data.

URL:ftp://kaja.gi.alaska.edu/pub/
The Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks
archives various radiative transfer and other software. The program
uvspec, which calculates diffuse and direct uv and visible fluxes
(radiance) and intensities (irradiance) at any altitude, is in
URL:ftp://kaja.gi.alaska.edu/pub/arve/.
URL:ftp://kaja.gi.alaska.edu/pub/disort/ contains a general n-stream
radiative transport equation solver.

URL:http://www.unidata.ucar.edu
Unidata Program Center. Decoders for for SAO, METAR, RAOBs; WXP;
NetCDF; units converter; and other software available.

URL:http://www.ucar.edu/dss/softlib/index.html
URL:ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu/libraries/
Various software and utilities, including Skew T log P charting
software, GRIB decode software, grid interpolation codes, US standard
atmosphere calculation.

URL:ftp://ftp.met.fsu.edu/pub/
This FTP site at Florida State University is a repository for public
domain software and shareware that is useful to atmospheric scientists.


URL:http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/software.html
WeatherNet software archive. Many popular weather related shareware
and freeware programs, including WeatherGraphix, HurrTrk, RAOB, WxView,
Sharp, WinWeather, Blue-Skies.

URL:ftp://ftp.ucar.edu/ccm/
Code for the NCAR/CGD Community Climate Model.

URL:ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/msdos/weather/
wxgrfx41a.zip (shareware version of WeatherGraphix 4.1a, a weather
plotting
and analysis program) and hurricane tracking software.

URL:ftp://oak.oakland.edu/pub/hamradio/docs/ne-weather/programs/
Various weather software for Mac and PC.

URL:ftp://ftpnssl.nssl.noaa.gov/pub/skaggs
Humidity-wind chill-heat index program, sunrise calculation program

URL:http://www.liv.ac.uk/~mark/met.htm
Humidity product calculator for Windows 95 and Dos.

URL:http://www.nbs.ac.uk/public/icd/wmc/decode-temps.html
Radiosonde (TTAA, etc) decode program in perl/java

URL:http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/1030/atmcalc.html
Javascript atmospheric variable calculator

URL:http://thunder.ias.sdsmt.edu
Interactive Radar Analysis Software (IRAS) package home page. IRAS
is a free X-Windows based software tool which is used to display
weather radar data.

URL:http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/vis.html
Scientific visualization software, Vis5D and VisAD.

URL:ftp://ftp.erc.msstate.edu/pub/griblib.tar.Z
GRIB decode in C

URL:ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu/libraries/GRIB/
GRIB decode in Fortran

URL:ftp://nic.fb4.noaa.gov/pub/info/
BUFR decode in Fortran (various files for different platforms)

URL:ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/ibmpc/dos/apps/demos/synoptic
Program to decode SYNOP and RTTY Meteo AAXX/BBXX codes, for PCs.

URL:http://www.nws.noaa.gov/metcode.htm
Information on METAR and WMO codes

URL:ftp://ftp.geog.ubc.ca/pub/jas.latex.dir
LaTex Style file for JAS

URL:http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/rms/qjrms.html
URL: ftp://ftp.met.rdg.ac.uk/pub/rms
LaTex style sheet for the Quarterly Journal of the Royal
Meteorological Society.

URL:ftp://ftp.essc.psu.edu/pub/essc/jacobson/ametsoc.tar.gz
BibTeX style (.bst) file and a LaTeX style (.sty) file for
AMS publications

URL:http://www.smartpages.com/faqs/sci-data-formats/faq.html
The FAQ for the Usenet newsgroup sci.data.formats. Includes pointers
to format descriptions and software for various data formats, including
several which are frequently used in the atmospheric sciences: CDF,
netCDF, HDF, GRIB. Also pointers to scientific visualization software.

URL:http://www.cgd.ucar.edu:80/cas/tn404/
NCAR Technical Note 404, An Introduction to Atmospheric and
Oceanographic Datasets. By Shea, Worley, Stern and Hoar; kept
updated on the web. Information about datasets and data types
available to the community.

There is even more on here including resources for data on CD (dated
and rather pricy now in the era of cheap DVDs. Still they might have
updated by now. The list is full of stuff whose time frame ends in the
1990's. A lot has changed in the last 10 years.)

I dare say Mr Berg would be grateful to learn of any changes to his
list so that he can improve the service. So if you come across
some.....
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/sci...71abdbe913b7/#