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- Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (CAIT) from World Resources Institute
- The Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (CAIT) by WRI is a set of comprehensive and comparable greenhouse gas inventories, together with other climate-relevant indicators. CAIT has been used to analyze a wide range of climate-related data questions and help support policy decision making and discussions under the Climate Convention and in other forums. (Source: World Resources Institute)
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- Air Data (EPA)
- AirData provides annual summary air pollution data for the United States. Data can be displayed as a map or as tabular data.
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- AQS Data Mart from (EPA)
- The AQS Data Mart provides ambient air pollution data from thousands of monitoring stations across the United States. The Data Mart contains data from the previous 25 years.
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- Decadal Mean Climatological Data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Data Distribution Centre
- "The CRU Global Climate Dataset, available through the IPCC DDC, consists of a multi-variate 0.5 degree latitude by 0.5 degree longitude resolution mean monthly climatology for global land areas, excluding Antarctica. Together with a mean climatology, which is strictly constrained to the period 1961-1990, there is a monthly time series at the same resolution for the period 1901-2000. The mean 1961-1990 climatology comprises a suite of eleven surface variables: precipitation (PRE) and wet-day frequency (WET); mean, maximum and minimum temperature (TMP, TMX, TMN); vapour pressure (VAP) and relative humidity (REH); sunshine percent (SUN) and cloud cover (CLD); frost frequency (FRS); and wind speed (WND). The time series component comprises all variables except sunshine per cent, frost frequency and wind speed. These are still under development" (Source: http://www.ipcc-data.org/obs/cru_climatologies.html)
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- Historical Global Monthly Temperature and Precipitation Data
- Monthly Data for Mean Temperature, Mean Maximum Temperature, Mean Minimum Temperature, and Precipitation.
"The Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) is a comprehensive global surface baseline climate data set designed for
monitoring and detecting climate change." "The Global Historical Climatology Network version 2 temperature database was
released in May 1997. This century-scale data set consists of monthly surface observations from ~7,000 stations from around
the world" (Sources: [http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/res40.pl#NOTE],
[http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/ghcn/ghcnoverview.html] Accessed: June 20, 2005).
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- National Climatic Data Center Online Document Library
- Publications available from NCDC include, "Monthly Climatic Data for the World", "Storm Data", "Local Climatological Data, Edited", "Climatological Data", "Hourly Precipitation Data", "Monthly Normals (Climatography of the U.S.)", "Heating and Cooling Degree Day Data", "Climate Maps of U.S.", "Wind Climatology", and "Freeze/Frost data for the U.S."
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- NOAAServer (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
- The NOAAServer provides a single access point to data from many different distributed NOAA databases.
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- Population Reference Bureau DataFinder
- "This database contains data on 95 demographic variables for more than 220 countries, 28 world regions and sub-regions, the world as a whole, the United States as a whole, and the U.S. states. (Not all countries have data on all variables)" [Source: http://www.prb.org/datafind/datafinder6.htm, Accessed August 30, 2005]. Some variables of particular interest to those interested in the Atmosphere include: CO2 Emission per Capita- 1998 (metric tons), and Number of Vehicles per 1,000 People- 2000.
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- Thirty Year Mean Climatological Data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Data Distribution Centre
- "The CRU Global Climate Dataset, available through the IPCC DDC, consists of a multi-variate 0.5 degree latitude by 0.5 degree longitude resolution mean monthly climatology for global land areas, excluding Antarctica. Together with a mean climatology, which is strictly constrained to the period 1961-1990, there is a monthly time series at the same resolution for the period 1901-2000. The mean 1961-1990 climatology comprises a suite of eleven surface variables: precipitation (PRE) and wet-day frequency (WET); mean, maximum and minimum temperature (TMP, TMX, TMN); vapour pressure (VAP) and relative humidity (REH); sunshine percent (SUN) and cloud cover (CLD); frost frequency (FRS); and wind speed (WND). The time series component comprises all variables except sunshine per cent, frost frequency and wind speed. These are still under development" (Source: http://www.ipcc-data.org/obs/cru_climatologies.html)
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