Fortran and GrADS, a Quick and Incomplete Review
2006 Presentation to New Students.

About Climate Data Sets:

UCAR's INFORMED GUIDE TO CLIMATE DATA SETS
http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/guide/.

DATA ARCHIVES

CLIVAR Drought Working Group Simulations with NCAR's CAM3.5 Model:
http://dsrs.atmos.umd.edu/DATA/CAM3.5_DWG/.

UCAR Data Library:
http://www.dss.ucar.edu/catalogs/.

IRI/LDEO Climate data Library:
http://ingrid.ldgo.columbia.edu/.

Met Office Hadley Centre Data Sets:
http://hadobs.metoffice.com/.

High-resolution climate grids available through UK's Climatic Research Unit and the Tyndall Centre:
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timm/data/index-table.html.

NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory:
http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/PublicData/.

NOAA's National Climatic Data Center:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html.

ORNL's Distributed Active Archive Center:
http://daac.ornl.gov/holdings.html.

University of Washington's JISAO Data Library:
http://jisao.washington.edu/data.html.

University of Delaware Climate Data Library:
http://climate.geog.udel.edu/~climate/.

REANALYSIS DATA SETS

Japanese Reanalysis:
http://jra.kishou.go.jp/index_en.html.

North American Regional Reanalysis:
NCDC: http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/data.php?=name=access#narr_datasets.
UCAR: http://dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ds608.0/.

ECMWF's ERA-15 & ERA-40 Reanalyses:
http://data.ecmwf.int/data/.

NCEP/DOE Reanalysis 2:
UCAR: http://dss.ucar.edu/pub/reanalysis2/.
CPC: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/wesley/reanalysis2/ndex.html.

NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis:
UCAR: http://dss.ucar.edu/pub/reanalysis/.
CPC: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/wesley/reanalysis.html.
IRI/LDEO: http://ingrid.ldgo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.NOAA/.NCEP-NCAR/.

University of Maryland Ocean Reanalysis:
http://www.atmos.umd.edu/~ocean/.

UPPER LEVEL DATA SETS

GFDL global monthly atmospheric circulation analyses:
UCAR: http://dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ds217.1/.

TEMPERATURE DATA SETS

Hadley's SST and Sea-Ice (HadlSST):
Met Office: http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadisst/.
UCAR: http://dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ds277.3/.

Reynolds Optimum Interpolation SST, version 2:
EMC: http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/research/cmb/sst_analysis/.
UCAR: http://dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ds277.0/data/v2oimnly/.

Joint Environmental Analysis Data Center (White's) Sub-surface Temperatures:
http://jedac.ucsd.edu/DATA_IMAGES/index.html.

University of East Anglia Surface Air Temperature Data Set:
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/.

PRECIPITATION DATA SETS

University of East Anglia (Hulme) Precipitation Data Set:
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~mikeh/datasets/global/.

Tyndall Centre's CRU TS 2.1 data-set
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timm/grid/CRU_TS_2_1.html.

University of Delaware (Willmot, Matsura and Collaborators) climate data set:
http://climate.geog.udel.edu/~climate/

CMAP Data Sets:
CPC: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/global_precip/html/wpage.cmap.html.
IRI/LDEO: http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.NOAA/.NCEP/.CPC/.Merged_Analysis/.monthly/.v0605/.

US-Mexico Retrospective Precipitation Analysis:
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/realtime/retro.shtml.

UNAM gridded data set:
http://ingrid.ldgo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.UNAM/.gridded/.monthly/.v0705/

India Sub-division Monsoon Rainfall Data:
http://www.iges.org/india/partha.subdiv.html.

PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDEX

UCAR: http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/catalog/climind/pdsi.html.

OFF-LINE HYDROCLIMATE SURFACE FIELDS

COLA's Global Off-line Land-surface Data Set (GOLD):
http://www.iges.org/gold/.

CPC's 1-layer Hydrological Model:
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/soilmst/index.shtml.

Global Soil Wetness Project, vesrion 2 (GSWP-2):
http://www.iges.org/gswp2/.
http://monsoondata.org:9090/dods/gswp2mma).

Gridded Runoff from University of New Hapshire and Global Runoff Data Centre:
http://www.grdc.sr.unh.edu/.

SATELLITE DATA

International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP):
http://isccp.giss.nasa.gov/products/browsed2.html.

NASA Water Vapor Project (NVAP) total column (integrated) Water Vapor Data Sets:
http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/PRODOCS/nvap/table_nvap.html.

Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM):
http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/data_dir/ProductStatus.html.