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There are 7 documents in this FAQ series:
  Meteorology FAQ Part 1/7: Intro
  Meteorology FAQ Part 2/7: Sources of weather data  
  Meteorology FAQ Part 3/7: Sources of research data  <=== 
  Meteorology FAQ Part 4/7: Sources of CD-ROMs
  Meteorology FAQ Part 5/7: Internet resources
  Meteorology FAQ Part 6/7: Print and other resources
  Meteorology FAQ Part 7/7: List of US State Climatologists

Corrections, additions, and comments should be sent to Ilana Stern at
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Subject: 1) Table of contents

 1) Table of contents
 2) Overview
 3) Multidisciplinary Data Centers 
 4) Climate and weather
 5) Satellite data
 6) Hydrology and glaciology
 7) Environmental chemistry
 8) Geophysical and mapping data
 9) Instruments and field experiments
10) Oceanography
11) Miscellaneous data
12) Software and documentation

Each (major) section has a "Subject:" line, so you can search on the
subject title above to find the section quickly.

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Subject: 2) Overview

Sites listed in this section contain sites with data other than just
weather information.  This includes map data, miscellaneous images,
atmospheric and oceanographic research data, and software for use
with meteorological data.  Primary data centers are listed first, 
followed by sites which may have some data of that type but are not 
necessarily official data centers.

Much of the research data is not free and is not directly available over 
the network; only metadata, or information about the data, is available,
and you must place an order for the actual data.

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Subject: 3) Multidisciplinary Data Centers 

<URL:http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov>
<URL:telnet://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov> (login "gcdir")
    The Global Change Master Directory is a multidisciplinary on-line 
information system containing descriptions of Earth and space science 
data holdings available to the science community. These include data from 
NASA, NOAA, NCAR, USGS, DOE (CDIAC), EPA, NSF and other  U.S. and 
international agencies, universities, and research centers.
  For telnet access, login as "gcdir".

<URL:http://www.ucar.edu/dss/index.html>
<URL:ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu>
  National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Data Support Section
maintains a large archive of a variety of atmospheric, oceanic, and 
geophysical datasets, encompassing most subdisciplines. This site contains 
information (metadata) on available datasets; a few small datasets are 
directly available.  

<URL:http://www.esdim.noaa.gov>
  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Environmental 
Information Services Home Page.  This "master page" links to the Web
pages of the various NOAA Data Centers:
  National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) <URL:http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/>
  National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) <URL:http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/>
  National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) <URL:http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/>
  You can search the NOAA dataset catalog, which covers all the NOAA Data 
Centers.  The individual data centers are also listed elsewhere in this
document.

<URL:http://eos.nasa.gov>
  Home page for Earth Observing System (EOS).  This "master page" links
to the home pages of the various Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs), 
which provide data from EOS:
  JPL Physical Oceanography DAAC <URL:http://podaac-www.jpl.nasa.gov>
  Marshall Space Flight Center DAAC <URL:http://wwwdaac.msfc.nasa.gov>
  Goddard DAAC <URL:http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/DAAC_DOCS/gdaac_home.html>
  Earth Resources Observation Systems DAAC 
<URL:http://sun1.cr.usgs.gov/landdaac/landdaac.html>
  National Snow and Ice Data Center DAAC
<URL:http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu/NASA/GUIDE/>
  Langley DAAC <URL:http://eosdis.larc.nasa.gov>
  Oak Ridge National Laboratory DAAC <URL:http://www-eosdis.ornl.gov>
  NOAA's Satellite Active Archive <URL:http://www.saa.noaa.gov>
  Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
<URL:http://www.ciesin.org>
  Alaska Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Facility 
<URL:http://eosims.asf.alaska.edu:12355/datacenters_documents/ASF_datacenter_doc.html>
  The individual data centers are also listed elsewhere in this
document.

<URL:http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/earth/earth_home.html>
  National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) earth science archive page.  A 
new policy from the Earth Sciences and Applications Division at NASA 
Headquarters directed NSSDC to distribute its holdings to various designated 
archives.  NSSDC no longer archives any new Earth science data; this site
describes the Earth science data transfer activities and provides selective 
data and resources available to users. 

<URL:http://www-mel.nrlmry.navy.mil/>
  Defense Modeling Simulations Office (DMSO) Master Environmental 
Library (MEL).  This site offers keyword searching of a directory of
all meteorological, oceanographic, and other environmental data at
Department of Defense sites such as the Fleet Numerical Oceanography
Center, Naval Research Laboratories, Air Force Global Weather Center,
etc.  

<URL:http://www.grid.unep.ch/gridhome.html>
  United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Global Resource Information
Database (GRID).  Global and European datasets for environmental researchers, 
including vegetation and topography maps, maps of population and other 
human-related items, and various climatologies.

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Subject: 4) Climate and weather

<URL:http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov>
<URL:ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/>
<URL:telnet://hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov> (login "storm", password "research")
  National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) of NOAA.   Inventories and metadata
for various climate datasets are available, along with selected datasets.
Monthly Climatic Data for the World for the last several years is available 
here in the directory <URL:ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/mcdw/>.
This is a World Data Center A for meteorology.

<URL:http://www.cdc.noaa.gov>
  The Climate Diagnostics Center (CDC), previously the Climate Research 
Division of the ERL Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL), 
conducts diagnostic studies of climate variability on time scales of months 
to centuries.  CDC climatological data is archived in netCDF format.
This site gives access to metadata (information about these datasets) which
can be searched by various keywords;  actual data must be ordered
from CAC by email or fill-in forms.

<URL:http://nic.fb4.noaa.gov>
<URL:ftp://nic.fb4.noaa.gov/pub/>
  Climate Prediction Center.  Climate products and services consisting of
operational prediction of climate variations, monitoring of the climate 
system and development of data bases for determining current global and 
regional climate anomalies and trends, and analysis of their origins and 
linkages to the complete climate system, including ENSO advisories and 
indices, and monthly mean and anomaly fields.

<URL:http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/DAAC_DOCS/gdaac_home.html>
  Goddard Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC). Data and related 
services for global change research and education.  Data holdings cover
information on the upper atmosphere, atmospheric dynamics, and global 
biosphere. 
  Products include data from Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS),
Total Ozone Mapping Satellites (TOMS), Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS),
Sea-viewing Wide Field of View Sensor (SeaWiFS), Pathfinder Advanced Very 
High Resolution (AVHRR) land sensor 4-Dimensional Assimilation dataset,
Total Ozone Vertical Sounder (TOVS) Pathfinder data, Tropical Ocean Global 
Atmosphere (TOGA) Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (COARE) 
Field Observation experiment data.

<URL:http://rainbow.ldgo.columbia.edu>
  Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University's Climate Group's 
server.  The "Data Library" contains various climatologies for the ocean 
and atmosphere, and topographic data, along with a nice interactive system 
for selection and display of data.

<URL:http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~rbrbrn/awsproj.html>
<URL:http://uwamrc.ssec.wisc.edu/amrchome.html>
  The Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of 
Wisconsin - Madison maintains archives of Antarctic data, including
synoptic reports and satellite images.

<URL:http://www.giss.nasa.gov/Data/>
<URL:ftp://ftp.giss.nasa.gov>
  Various monthly mean data files, including surface temperature anomalies, 
grids of various variables used in the GCM II (General Circ. Model).  Also 
various maps of vegetation indices, cultivation indices, wetland ecosystems.  
  The ftp machine can not be accessed using a WWW browser -- you must ftp
directly.  The file "GISS.HELP" contains an index.  As of Feb 96,
the ftp server's data is somewhat outdated.

<URL:http://isccp.giss.nasa.gov>
  ISCCP C2 cloud data from GISS.  This data is no longer on the main
server, above.

<URL:http://strat-www.met.fu-berlin.de> 
  Free University of Berlin Stratospheric Research Group.  Stratospheric
data (heights and temperatures).

<URL:http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/longpdk/>
  "The Long Paddock" Climatology of Australia with focus on Queensland.
Maps of monthly rainfall, SOI, SST.  Information on drought and the
southern oscillation.

<URL:http://thunder.atms.purdue.edu:80/toga_atlas/>
  Climatology of the TOGA-COARE and adjacent regions.

<URL:http://www.cyberus.ca/~sorokoj/>
  Links to many paleoclimate resources.

<URL:http://climate.sage.dri.edu>
  Western Regional Climate Center

<URL:http://met-www.cit.cornell.edu/nrcc_home.html>
  Northeast Regional Climate Center

<URL:http://sercc.dnr.state.sc.us/sercc.html>
  Southeast Regional Climate Center

<URL:http://maestro.srcc.lsu.edu/srcc.html>
  Southern Regional Climate Center

<URL:http://hpccsun.unl.edu/>
  High Plains Regional Climate Center

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Subject: 5) Satellite data

<URL:http://www.saa.noaa.gov>
<URL:telnet://saa.noaa.gov>
  NOAA's Satellite Active Archive is a digital library of real-time and 
historical satellite data from NOAA's Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental 
Satellites (POES).  Currently, AVHRR and TOVS data is available.

<URL:http://140.90.207.25:8080/EBB/ml/nic00.html> 
  NOAA Satellite Information System (NOAASIS) provides NOAA/NESDIS-operated 
satellite information for direct readout station operators and users of 
environmental satellite data. Limited information is provided for the
satellites operated by other countries and enitities.
  Includes general information about satellites, schedules, navigation
information, publications, and more.

Added <URL:http://www.nnic.noaa.gov/SOCC/SOCC_Home.html> 
  NOAA Office of Satellite Operations home page.  Bulletins, basic 
information, and other information.  
  
<URL:http://www.dfd.dlr.de/>
  The German Remote Sensing Data Center.  Satellite images, data, and
other information.

<URL:http://eosims.asf.alaska.edu:12355/datacenters_documents/ASF_datacenter_doc.html>
  Alaska Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Facility Home Page.  SAR images and 
derived data, AVHRR and Landsat satellite imagery.

<URL:http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/dmsp.html>
<URL:ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/DMSP>
  Info about, and sample data from the NOAA Defense Meteorological Satellite 
Program (DMSP).  DMSP is a two satellite constellation of near-polar orbiting, 
sun-synchronous satellites monitoring meteorological, oceanographic and 
solar-terrestrial physics environments. 

<URL:http://jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov>
  Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) home page. Contains general 
information on ozone, ozone satellite retrieval, and information about 
Earth Probe/TOMS, Meteor-3, and Nimbus-7.  Ozone movies and graphs
also available.  
  Nimbus-7 and Meteor-3 daily gridded Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer 
(TOMS) ozone data is available via <URL:ftp://jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/>.
user is warned that the data are not archive quality and not suitable for 
publication. Data will eventually be archived with the GSFC DAAC.

<URL:gopher://diamond.ssec.wisc.edu>
<URL:ftp://diamond.ssec.wisc.edu>
  The GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) Pathfinder 
Data Set was generated at SSEC using full resolution GOES imagery from the 
Geostationary National Archive.  Includes 8 km products, 70 km equal area 
statistics products, 24 km browse of the 8 km products, and 9 panel browse 
of the 70 km statistics from May 4, 1987 through November 30, 1988. 

<URL:ftp://archive.afit.af.mil/pub/space/>
  Two-line element data (TLE) for a variety of satellites. 

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Subject: 6) Hydrology and glaciology

<URL:http://wwwdaac.msfc.nasa.gov>
  Marshall Space Flight Center Distributed Active Archive Center (MSFC.DAAC).
Data holdings are primarily aimed at researchers investigating facets of the 
hydrologic cycle.  Available data includes SSM/I NOAA/NASA Pathfinder 
Products, TOVS NOAA/NASA Pathfinder Path C1 Products, SSM/I Antenna 
Temperatures and Sensor Counts, and Climatological Summaries.

<URL:http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu/NASA/GUIDE/>
  The National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
(NSIDC DAAC) maintains information about snow cover and avalanches, glaciers 
and ice sheets, floating ice, ground ice and permafrost, atmospheric ice, 
extra-terrestrial ices, paleoglaciology and ice cores. 
  Also see the NSIDC home page at <URL:http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu/>.

<URL:http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov>
<URL:gopher://gopher.nohrsc.nws.gov>
<URL:ftp://ftp.nohrsc.nws.gov/pub>
  National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center.  Snow cover 
measurements in US and Canada, and snow water equivalent data.

<URL:http://polar.wwb.noaa.gov/seaice/>
  The National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Sea Ice home page.
Contents include the most recent automated sea ice analysis for both
hemispheres and ice drift forecast guidance.

<URL:http://www.dow.on.doe.ca/ice/home.ice.html>
  Ice Services Branch of Environment Canada.  Information about available
products and services, and some sample data.

<URL:ftp://meds02.met.fu-berlin.de/pub/SEA-ICE/>
  The Institute for Meteorology of the Free Uni Berlin provides
operation sea-ice maps.  Text is mostly in German but there are some
English translations.

<URL:http://www.meto.umd.edu/~alan/soil_moisture/>
  University of Maryland Global Soil Moisture Data Bank.  A collection
of data, model output, and links to soil moisture information.


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Subject: 7) Environmental chemistry

<URL:http://www-eosdis.ornl.gov>
  The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Distributed Active Archive 
Center (DAAC) provides information about the Earth's biogeochemical dynamics 
(the chemical interactions among the Earth's surface, water, and air that 
produce changes in the Earth and its climate) to the global change research 
community, policy makers, educators, and the general interested public.

<URL:http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov:80/cdiac/>
  The Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) at ORNL provides 
information to help international researchers, policymakers, and educators 
evaluate complex environmental issues, including potential climate change 
associated with elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and other 
radiatively active trace gases.

<URL:http://eosdis.larc.nasa.gov>
<URL:telnet://eosdis.larc.nasa.gov> (login "ims", password "larcims")
  The Langley Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) archives and
distributes radiation budget, cloud, aerosol, and tropospheric chemistry 
data to the general science community.  Data are available via FTP, tape 
and CD-ROM.  
  Products include data from the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE),
Surface Radiation Budget (SRB), International Satellite Cloud Climatology 
Project (ISCCP), Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE), First 
ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE), and Global Tropospheric Experiment (GTE).

<URL:http://www.epa.gov>
<URL:gopher://gopher.epa.gov>
  Environmental Protection Agency.  A variety of publicly-accessible
databases, including air pollution data, toxic chemical release data,
and geographic data. 

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Subject: 8) Geophysical and mapping data

<URL:http://www.usgs.gov/data/index.html>
  U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data products, including cartographic data, 
geologic data, water data, and links to other USGS machines which hold
data or metadata archives.

<URL:http://sun1.cr.usgs.gov/eros-home.html>
  U.S. Geological Survey's EROS Data Center (EDC).  Aerial photography, 
cartographic data, earth science data, hydrologic data, landuse/landcover 
data, radar data, satellite and satellite derivative data, topographic data.

<URL:http://sun1.cr.usgs.gov/landdaac/landdaac.html>
  Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center Distributed Active 
Archive Center (EDC.DAAC).  Archives include land processes data, including 
satellite- and aircraft-acquired data:  1km AVHRR, Landsat Pathfinder data,
Digital Chart of the World Derived Digital Elevation Model Data (topographical
charts), SIR-C/X-SAR (Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-band Synthetic Aperture 
Radar). 

<URL:http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov>
<URL:gopher://gopher.ngdc.noaa.gov>
<URL:ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/>
  The National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) of NOAA manages environmental 
data in the fields of solar-terrestrial physics, solid earth geophysics, 
marine geology and geophysics, paleoclimatology, and glaciology (snow and 
ice). In each of these fields it also operates a World Data Center (WDC A) 
discipline center.  Data and metadata are available.

<URL:http://www.ucar.edu/dss/geo.html>
  National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)'s catalog of geophysical
and vegetation datasets.  Several of these datasets are directly available
via this page.

<URL:http://ageninfo.tamu.edu/apl-us>
<URL:gopher://ageninfo.tamu.edu/11/apl-us>
  Shaded relief map of USA generated from 30 arc second DEM dataset.

<URL:ftp://ftp.csn.org/COGS/>
  The Computer Oriented Geological Society (COGS) has various mapping-related
information, datasets, and software. 

<URL:ftp://spectrum.xerox.com/pub/map/>
  Various USGS and other uncopyrighted data.  Includes USGS DEM and DLG 
files, land use information, and some software to read these files. 

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Subject: 9) Instruments and field experiments

<URL:http://aprf.arl.mil>
<URL:ftp://aprf.arl.mil/pub>
  Army Research Laboratory's Atmospheric Profiler Research Facility.
Real-time, hour-averaged, qc'd, surface to stratosphere profiles of wind, 
temperature, and optical/radar turbulence from the Atmospheric Profiler 
Research Facility, White Sands, New Mexico.  Archives back through 1994.
  This site is scheduled to close down in September 1996. 

<URL:http://www.joss.ucar.edu/codiac>
  UCAR Joint Office for Science Support.   A large number of datasets from 
various field projects and research programs, including  CEPEX,  GCIP, 
STORM-FEST, TOGA-COARE, are available via "CODIAC" -- The Cooperative 
Distributed Interactive Atmospheric Catalog.  

<URL:telnet://kuda.atd.ucar.edu> (login "kuda", password "science")
  Many types of atmospheric measurements and supporting data from the 
Persian Gulf region during the Kuwait oil well fires (1991).  Inventory 
includes aircraft measurements of particulates, chemistry, radiation, and 
state parameters, surface-based meteorological, air quality, and radiation
measurements, model output grids, and digital satellite images from 
NOAA and DMSP polar orbiters.  
  For more information, contact kudastaff@kuda.atd.ucar.edu

<URL:http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/MODIS/MAS/Home.html>
  Information about, and data from, the MODIS Airborne Simulator multispectral 
scanner.

<URL:http://www.amps.gov>
  The US Department of Energy's Airborne Multisensor Pod System (AMPS) 
collects a variety of data from multiple sensors mounted on a modified 
Lockheed RP-3A.  Currently the sensors include Synthetic Aperture Radar 
(SAR) and MultiSensor Imaging (MSI) pods; Effluent Species Identification 
(ESI) pod is currently under construction.  Information about the AMPS
project and data is available.

<URL:http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/sircxsar>
  Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR)
flew on space shuttle Endeavour on two missions in 1994.  Images from
these flights, and information about the instrument.

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Subject: 10) Oceanography

<URL:http://diu.cms.udel.edu>
<URL:gopher://diu.cms.udel.edu>
  OCEANIC, the Ocean Information Center at the University of Delaware, 
contains information about data collected for the World Ocean Circulation 
Experiment (WOCE) and the Tropical Oceans and Global Atmosphere Coupled 
Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA COARE). In addition OCEANIC has a
searchable international research ship schedule database, a searchable
directory of names/addresses/e-mail of scientists involved in WOCE, and
numerous links to WOCE data facilities and other oceanographic
information systems.

<URL:http://www.nodc.noaa.gov>
<URL:gopher://gopher.nodc.noaa.gov/>
  National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) of NOAA.  The NODC holds 
physical, chemical, and biological oceanographic data collected by U.S. 
Federal agencies, including the Department of Defense (primarily the U.S. 
Navy); state, and local government agencies; universities and research 
institutions; and private industry.  A large percentage of the oceanographic 
data held by NODC is of foreign origin.

<URL:http://podaac-www.jpl.nasa.gov>
<URL:ftp://ftppodaac.jpl.nasa.gov>
  JPL Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC).
Products available from PO.DAAC are largely satellite derived, and include:
sea-surface height, surface-wind vector (and sigma-nought), surface-wind 
speed, surface-wind stress vector, integrated water vapor, atmospheric 
liquid water, sea-surface temperature, sea-ice extent and concentration, 
heat flux, and in-situ data as it pertains to satellite data.

<URL:http://polar.wwb.noaa.gov/>
  NCEP Ocean Modelling Branch.  Includes global wave model forecast and
sea ice information.   Regional wave model output is available for
several regions.  Fog model and sea ice information also available.

<URL:http://www-ccs.ucsd.edu/ccs/about_datazoo.html>
<URL:gopher://gopher-ccs.ucsd.edu:70/11/zoo>
  Scripps Institute of Oceanography Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) 
"Data Zoo".  Data collected by various California coastal data collection 
programs and studies.

<URL:http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/pub/info/holdings.html>
  Datasets from the the U.S. Geological Survey Global Change Research 
Program, an operational arm of the national U.S. Global Change Research 
Program (USGCRP).  Modern average global SST and polar sea ice are
available.  

<URL:http://www.pmel.noaa.gov>
  NOAA's Pacific Marine Environment Laboratory.  Interactive access to a
selection of ocean climatologies and real-time and historical TAO buoy data.

<URL:http://www-aviso.cls.cnes.fr>
  AVISO - TOPEX/POSEIDON Home Page. Information on the French-American 
TOPEX/POSEIDON satellite mission and the French active archive data center, 
AVISO/Altimetry.  Other information on space oceanography related matters.

<URL:http://ftp.csr.utexas.edu/sst.html>
<URL:ftp://ftp.csr.utexas.edu/pub/sst>
  Sea level anomalies are routinely computed using TOPEX/POSEIDON (T/P)
Interim Geophysical Data Records (IGDRs) by the University of Texas
Center for Space Research (UT/CSR) as soon as the data for a complete
10-day repeat cycle are available, approximately 1 to 2 weeks after the
end of a cycle.

<URL:http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/Atlas/SO/Deckblatt.html>
  The Alfred Wegener Institute provides the Hydrographic Atlas of the Southern 
Ocean.

<URL:http://server.ices.inst.dk>
<URL:ftp://server.ices.inst.dk/dist/ocean>
  International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) server has 
several PC oceanographic products available, including a list of country 
codes and ship codes, and inventories of data profiles and research 
activities.  For more information contact ocean@server.ices.inst.dk.

<URL:ftp://atlantic.ocean.fsu.edu/pub/>
  East coast tidal heights and winds in "pub/Tidedata", QuickBasic
IBM-PC shareware to compute tides and currents in "pub/Tides", Luyten 
& Stommel oceanographic atlas in "pub/LiveAtlas", and other related
items.

<URL:ftp://acoustics.whoi.edu/public/Matlab/oceans>
  Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Ocean Acoustics Lab.  Various 
oceanography-related Matlab stuff.

<URL:http://dutlru8.lr.tudelft.nl>
  Delft University of Technology.  Sea surface altimetry atlas computed 
from satellite data, satellite orbit determination, global windspeed and
wave height from ERS-2.

<URL:http://www.ems.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wx/offshore.cgi>
  Penn State University Offshore Weather Data Page.  Offshore weather data 
from buoys, ships, and CMAN stations.  36-hour archive, updates every 
15 minutes.

<URL:http://www.aodc.gov.au/Data_Inventory/table_of_contents.html>
  The Australian Oceanographic Data Centre (AODC) maintains a database of 
mainly temperature and salinity profiles for the Australian Area of 
Interest (30°N - 80°S; 20°E - 150°W), with limited quantities of in-situ 
data held outside of this region.  Information about the datasets is 
available on the AODC server.

<URL:http://www.fnoc.navy.mil>
  Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center.  Interactive image
generation of wave height analysis and forecasts, SST analysis and 
climatology.  Information about the models used to generate the images is
also available.

<URL:http://www.oceanweather.com/~oceanwx/data.html>
  Global current marine observations and significant wave height map.

<URL:http://www.etl.noaa.gov/OTHdata.html>
<URL:ftp://netsrv.wpl.erl.gov/pub/et1/oth/>
  NOAA's Environmental Technology Laboratory provides an archive of images 
of ocean surface wind direction for the North Atlantic Ocean from 
Over-the-Horizon (OTH) Radar.  OTH-B was shut down by the Air Force on 4 
April 1995 so there is no current data.  

<URL:http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/images.html>
  The Remote Sensing Group in the Division of Meteorology and Physical 
Oceanography of the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. 
Low resolution visible and infrared imagery is collected daily from the NOAA 
sun-synchronous polar orbiting satellites. Low resolution observations 
(4 km.) are collected globally while high resolution observations (1 km.) 
are collected from selected areas of research interest around the globe.

Oceanography pointers and indices:

<URL:http://www.mth.uea.ac.uk/ocean/oceanography.html>
<URL:http://www.esdim.noaa.gov/ocean_page.html>
<URL:http://www.whoi.edu/html/www-servers/oceanography.html>
<URL:http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/sio/inst/index.html>
<URL:http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov/other.html>
<URL:http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/sio/inst/index.html>
<URL:http://www-ccs.ucsd.edu/src_oceanography.html>

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Subject: 11) Miscellaneous data

<URL:http://www.ciesin.org>
  Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN).
Data about human interactions in global environmental change from many 
sources.

<URL:http://www.sel.noaa.gov>
<URL:gopher://gopher.sel.noaa.gov>
  NOAA's Space Environment Laboratory (SEL) server has information about
the Sun and the environment between the Sun and the Earth, including
"space weather" and solar images

<URL:ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/pub/SPACE/>
  Viking, Magellan, and Voyager data, and various earth-from-space images 
and information. 

<URL:http://ageninfo.tamu.edu/eclipse>
<URL:gopher://ageninfo.tamu.edu/11/eclipse>
  MPEG of GOES-7 and GOES-8 images during May 10 1994 eclipse

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Subject: 12) Software and documentation

<URL:http://grads.iges.org/grads/head.html>
<URL:ftp://grads.iges.org>
  The Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies provides GrADS (Grid Analysis 
and Display System) software and documentation.  GrADS is an interactive 
desktop tool for the analysis and display of earth science data.

<URL:gopher://140.90.5.206>
  Information from the National Weather Service Telecommunication Gateway 
(NWSTG) of the National Weather Service (NWS), Systems Operations Center,
about changes to data formats and transmissions information that has not 
yet been published in standard source documents, such as NWS manuals, WMO 
manuals, or other documents or announcements.  

<URL:ftp://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/wiscombe/>
  A collection of scientific software written by Warren Wiscombe.  Mostly
atmospheric radiation-related:  Mie code, discrete ordinates radiative 
transfer code, atmospheric thermodynamics code, and other programs.

<URL:http://www-ocean.tamu.edu/~baum/ocean_graphics.html> 
  Steve Baum's collection of information about, and links to, software
for graphical presentation and numerical analysis of oceanographical
and meteorological data.

<URL:ftp://kaja.gi.alaska.edu/pub/>
  The Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks archives
various radiative transfer and other software.  The program uvspec, which 
calculates diffuse and direct uv and visible fluxes (radiance) and intensities 
(irradiance) at any altitude, is in <URL:ftp://kaja.gi.alaska.edu/pub/arve/>.
<URL:ftp://kaja.gi.alaska.edu/pub/disort/> contains a general n-stream 
radiative transport equation solver.

<URL:http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>
  Unidata Program Center.  Decoders for for SAO, METAR, RAOBs;  WXP;  
NetCDF;  units converter; and other software available.

<URL:http://www.ucar.edu/dss/softlib/index.html>
<URL:ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu/libraries/>
  Various software and utilities, including Skew T log P charting software,
GRIB decode software, grid interpolation codes, US standard atmosphere
calculation.

<URL:ftp://ftp.met.fsu.edu/pub/>
  This FTP site at Florida State University is a repository for public domain 
software and shareware that is useful to atmospheric scientists.  

<URL:http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/software.html>
  WeatherNet software archive.  Many popular weather related shareware
and freeware programs, including WeatherGraphix, HurrTrk, RAOB, WxView, 
Sharp, WinWeather, Blue-Skies.

<URL:ftp://ftp.ucar.edu/ccm/>
  Code for the NCAR/CGD Community Climate Model.

<URL:ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/msdos/weather/>
  wxgrfx41a.zip (shareware version of WeatherGraphix 4.1a, a weather plotting
and analysis program) and hurricane tracking software.

<URL:ftp://oak.oakland.edu/pub/hamradio/docs/ne-weather/programs/>
  Various weather software for Mac and PC.

<URL:ftp://ftpnssl.nssl.noaa.gov/pub/skaggs>
  Humidity-wind chill-heat index program, sunrise calculation program

<URL:http://www.liv.ac.uk/~mark/met.htm>
  Humidity product calculator for Windows 95 and Dos.

<URL:http://www.nbs.ac.uk/public/icd/wmc/decode-temps.html> 
  Radiosonde (TTAA, etc) decode program in perl/java

<URL:http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/1030/atmcalc.html>
  Javascript atmospheric variable calculator 

<URL:http://thunder.ias.sdsmt.edu>
   Interactive Radar Analysis Software (IRAS) package home page. IRAS is a 
free X-Windows based software tool which is used to display weather 
radar data. 

<URL:http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/vis.html> 
  Scientific visualization software, Vis5D and VisAD.

<URL:ftp://ftp.erc.msstate.edu/pub/griblib.tar.Z>
  GRIB decode in C

<URL:ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu/libraries/GRIB/>
  GRIB decode in Fortran

<URL:ftp://nic.fb4.noaa.gov/pub/info/>
  BUFR decode in Fortran (various files for different platforms)

<URL:ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/ibmpc/dos/apps/demos/synoptic> 
  Program to decode SYNOP and RTTY Meteo AAXX/BBXX codes, for PCs.

<URL:http://www.nws.noaa.gov/metcode.htm> 
  Information on METAR and WMO codes

<URL:ftp://ftp.geog.ubc.ca/pub/jas.latex.dir>
  LaTex Style file for JAS

<URL:http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/rms/qjrms.html>
<URL: ftp://ftp.met.rdg.ac.uk/pub/rms>
  LaTex style sheet for the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological 
Society. 

<URL:ftp://ftp.essc.psu.edu/pub/essc/jacobson/ametsoc.tar.gz>
  BibTeX style (.bst) file and a LaTeX style (.sty) file for
AMS publications

<URL:http://www.smartpages.com/faqs/sci-data-formats/faq.html>
  The FAQ for the Usenet newsgroup sci.data.formats.  Includes pointers
to format descriptions and software for various data formats, including
several which are frequently used in the atmospheric sciences:  CDF,
netCDF, HDF, GRIB.  Also pointers to scientific visualization software.

<URL:http://www.cgd.ucar.edu:80/cas/tn404/> 
  NCAR Technical Note 404, An Introduction to Atmospheric and 
Oceanographic Datasets.  By Shea, Worley, Stern and Hoar;  kept
updated on the web.  Information about datasets and data types
available to the community.
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