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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

Last Update: February 5, 2008