NCEAS Scientific Computing: Data Resources
This page provides links to geophysical (e.g., Remote Sensing) and Earth systems (e.g., climatological) data sets that NCEAS researchers might find useful in their research.
Scientific Computing Services encourages contributions to this page. Please send your suggestions: email Scientific Computing Services
Use this form to request a Earth systems data set from NCEAS Scientific Computing:
NCEAS Scientific Computing Earth Systems Data Request Form (PDF - 2 pages)
Comprehensive Listings/Clearinghouses: Environmental Datasets
EDEN Data Archive: Emerging Diseases in a Changing European Environment
Climate Data: Observations and Models
ACACIA Regional Climate Data Access System
Climate Research Unit (CRU) Global Climatology Data Set (10 minute Resolution)
Paper describing the CRU Climate data set (PDF format)
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
IPCC Data Distribution Centre Climate Model Data Portal
NASA Global Change Master Data Set Directory
National Climactic Data Center (NCDC) Archives
NCAR Climate and Global Dynamics Division
NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory /Physical Sciences Division (ESRL/PSD)
Union of Concerned Scientists: Global Environment IPCC Page
World Climate Research Program/ Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (WCRP / CMIP3)
(Registration required to download CMIP3 data sets)
Digital Terrain, Digital Mapping, and Land Use data
NOAA / National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) Marine Geology and Geophysics site
(NCEAS Geospatial Web Site of the Month for May 2008): Scientific stewardship, products, and services for sea floor and lakebed data
EOS-WEBSTER (Univ of New Hampshire): Digital Library for Earth Science Data
Free, customized Earth Science data. Holdings can be searched spatially, temporally, or using keywords
SpatialReference.Org: Map Projection Utility
Find a spatial reference for most map projections.
Alternate PROJ4 information: remotesensing.org Geotiff projection Web Site
Terrainmap.com: Online Digital Elevation Data Journal
Comprehensive clearinghouse for digital terrain and land cover data. Includes informative articles.
FreeGIS.org digest of Open Source and public geospatial data products
Geocommunity.com: Free GIS Data Depot
Mapability.com: Open Source Digital Chart of the World (VMAP0) data archive
United States Geological Survey (USGS) Home
Digital Chart of the World (DCW) Information Site
USGS Seamless Data Distribution System: Global geospatial data archive
USGS Land Cover Institute: National Land Cover Data set (NCLD) 1992
Macquire University Graduate School of the Environment Web Site GIS and Remote Sensing links
Remote Sensing Data
Ocean Color Web: Portal to MODIS and Sea WiFS satellite data and processing tools
National Resources Canada Earth Sciences Sector
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Remote Sensing Data and Information Portal
USGS National Center for Earth Resources Observation and Sciences (EROS) Data Center