Pacific Northwest Data | Polar
Data | Tropical
Data
Pacific Northwest
Bering Sea Climate and Ecosystem
sponsored by NOAA's Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated Investigations (FOCI)
Program, the North Pacific Research Board (NPRB) and NOAA's Environmental
Services Data and Information Management Program (ESDIM)
Office of the Washington State Climatologist
Washington state climate data
National Weather Service, Seattle,
Washington
Pacific Northwest weather forecasting and observation information and data
National Weather Service, Western Region
Headquarters
Western region weather forecasting and observation information and data
Western U.S. Climate Historical
Summaries
Data summaries for most major airports and cities with NWS offices
University of Washington Atmospheric
Science Weather Information
Pacific Northwest weather data, forecasts, national data, radar imagery, satellite
imagery, climate data, MM5 regional model and other data servers
National
Marine Fisheries Service Alaska Region Groundfish Catch Statistics
Groundfish catch statistics, summaries and historical information
University
of Washington Fish Collection
A Collection of Washington, Oregon and Alaska freshwater fishes and marine
fishes from the eastern North Pacific
Marine
Mammal Stock Assessment Reports
Marine mammal stock assessment reports from the National Marine Fisheries
Service
National Marine Mammal Laboratory
Research programs
Status reports on Bowhead Whales, Beluga Whale Tagging, and Eastern North
Pacific Grey Whales and a database on Pinnipeds
Ocean Climate Laboratory
- Global Plankton Database
Globally distributed plankton data and associated metadata, with over 66,000
plankton biomass observations, and over 895,000 taxonomic observations
University of Washington Coastal
Studies Data
California and Washington CTD, current meter, drifter and satellite data
University of California San Diego Scripps
Institution of Oceanography Library and Resources
Hyperlinks to the Center for Coastal Studies Data Zoo, physical oceanography
datasets, images, animation, and gridded fields of upper ocean temperature,
Global Ocean Observation Database, Coastal Program (CDIP), oceanographic collections,
benthic invertebrates, geological rocks, marine vertebrates, planktonic invertebrates,
and the Geological Data Center
University of Hawaii School
of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
Hyperlinks to the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (COARE), Laboratory
for Microbiological Oceanography (includes HOT and COLD), Kaneohe Bay Coastal
Intensive Site Network (CISNet) Project, Meteorology Weather Server, Ocean
Atlas of Hawaii, Pacific El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Applications
Center, Pacific Regional Planetary Data Center (PRPDC), Satellite Oceanography
Laboratory Shipboard ADCP Joint Archive, SOEST LIDAR Group, University of
Hawaii Sea Level Center and Virtually Hawaii
Geopubs
On-line geologic publications of the Western United States
Western Region
Mineral Resource Program's Regional Digital Data Sets
Western Region Mineral Resource Program published regional geoscience information
in the form of geospatial digital data sets which cross state boundaries within
the Northwestern United States
A Pacific
Northwest Seismograph Network - Recent Event Catalog
A recent events catalog for earthquakes (M>2) in Washington and Oregon.
United States Geological
Survey Washington - Current Streamflow Conditions
Current conditions for Washington's rivers and streams, from the USGS; includes
discharge and stage data on a real-time basis
Santa Barbara Channel - Santa
Maria Basin Regions real time data for oil spill response
Near-real time data to be used in Oil Spill Response
Polar
Bering Sea Climate and Ecosystem
sponsored by NOAA's Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated Investigations (FOCI)
Program, the North Pacific Research Board (NPRB) and NOAA's Environmental
Services Data and Information Management Program (ESDIM)
The National Snow and Ice Data Center
Data and information about snow cover, avalanches, glaciers, ice sheets, freshwater
ice, sea ice, ground ice, permafrost, atmospheric ice, paleoglaciology, and
ice cores
National Ice Center
Analyses and forecasts of Arctic, Antarctic, Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay
ice conditions
Polar Science Hydrographic
Climatology (PHC)
A raw field of data (Temperature, Salinity, etc) from which specific seasons
and years can be extracted
International Arctic Buoy
Programme (IABP) Datasets
Arctic Basin buoy data including synoptic-scale fields of pressure, temperature,
and ice motion
Polar Exchange at
the Sea Surface (POLES)
Gridded daily and monthly arctic atmospheric data from TOVS; polar radiative
fluxes from The ISCCP D1, arctic radiative fluxes from the ISCCP C2; new IABP-POLES
2-meter air temperature; original POLES arctic gridded 2- meter air temperature;
and POLES Sea Ice Model Forcing Data Set and P-Cube: a prototype for
a multisensor Polar Pathfinder
Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic
Ocean (SHEBA)
Surface meteorological data, monthly ice concentration maps, ice station position,
velocity, and bathymetry data
United States Coast Guard
International Ice Patrol Archived Data
International Ice Patrol Scientific Reports Bibliography and summaries of
past International Ice Patrol data
SCICEX (Scientific Ice Expeditions)
Datasets
A variety of information on the geology, physics, chemistry and biology of
the Arctic regions collected by civilian scientists together with Navy personnel
through a 5 year program (1995-1999) in which the Navy has made available
a Sturgeon-class, nuclear powered, attack submarine for unclassified science
cruises to the Arctic Ocean
TOVS Data Set
Gridded daily arctic atmospheric data derived from various NOAA satellites
NOAA South Pole Observatory:
Data from monitoring programs in greenhouse and other trace gases, atmospheric
aerosols, solar radiation variability, stratospheric ozone and meteorological
parameters in the Antarctic region
IPA Circumarctic Permafrost
and Ground Ice Map
This map contains information for two main mapping parameters based on published
information continuity and estimated ground ice content as a permafrost function
of thickness of surficial deposits and proximity to bedrock Also included
are the glaciers and ice sheets for North America (including Greenland) and
the arctic islands that were available from digital data bases
Alaska Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
An electronic pathway for the public to access a wide variety of information
in the form of maps, images, and descriptions about Alaska geo-spatial data
Arctic Directory of the U.N. Environment
Programme
A collection of authoritative information on environmental assessment related
to the Arctic. The Arctic Data Directory is now closed but the data and information
describing the major Arctic data holdings of the Interagency Arctic Research
Policy Committee (IARPC) is available here.
International Arctic Environment
Data Directory
Hyperlinks to international polar data sources and information
International index of polar
web sites
Hyperlinks to Arctic and Antarctic sites compiled by the Byrd Polar Research
Center, Ohio State University
Tropical
Tropical Ocean Global
Atmosphere (TOGA) Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment Data
Aircraft, ship, mooring, drifter, ground station, satellite, model data products,
and cross-science group including flux algorithms organized by platform
Tropical Prediction Center/National Hurricane
Center
Tropical cyclone advisories, discussion, strike probabilities, position estimates
and tropical weather outlook, monthly summary and disturbance statements
Unisys Weather: Hurricane/Tropical
Data
Hurricane information including charts on the track of the storm plus a text
based table of tracking information. The table includes position in latitude
and longitude, maximum sustained winds in knots, and central pressure in millibars.
Ohio State University
Tropical Weather Website
Source for tropical data, imagery, and discussions for the Atlantic, Pacific,
and Indian basins