Climatology and climate change is based in comprehensive weather data. The data is not always available free of charge at least for academic purposes. This has retarded the progress of climatology research. Is there any way of to access to data for particular region of the world?
Hello, you can get some data
ECMWF Data Server: http://data-portal.ecmwf.int/
The best place to download records of paleoclimate data is from the following website - http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/datalist.html - unfortunately it is presently closed because of the American government shutdown but once they come back to work I think you'll find this to be very helpful. it is quite detailed and all-encompassing
In my personal website, in the page called "links" and under "Environmental data", added a few links that would take you to websites from which you can download climatic data: http://www.eliecer-e-gutierrez.com/Eliecer_E_Gutierrez,_Ph.D./Links.html I hope this helps. Best
Another possible link is www.worldclim.org...though at the moment they are having technical difficulties I think.
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/climate/. even u can surf IMD website,IPCC website
IRI/Columbia Univ has another great library as a starting point. http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/
This is especially important right now as most NASA/NOAA data is not accessible due to the US govt shutdown.
1. In addition to NOAA (referenced above), there are a number of Regional Climate Centers that provide additional value-added data, research and expertise to different regions of the United States (e.g., Western Regional Climate Center, http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/)
2. The American Association of State Climatologists (http://www.stateclimate.org/) has links to a State Climatologist in nearly every state in the US. Many of these state climate offices have data and resources available online.
3. Archived and real-time snow data for mountainous areas of the Western United States can be found through the US Natural Resource Conservation Service SNOTEL Network: http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/snow/
4. Mesowest (http://mesowest.utah.edu/) provides access to real-time and archived automated weather data around the United States, searchable by map location.
For climate station data the Berkeley earth surface temperature project provides quality controlled climate data for the entire globe with a 1 by 1 degree gridded product as well. This is all readily downloadable but you will have to know how to access netcdf files.
Two web-based alternatives are the climate reanalyzer and the knmi climate explorer which are both fantastic spots for all kinds of climate data and analysis.
Dear Saif Uddin;
Perticularly I am interested in weakly data on rainfall in Sri Lanka. Though the data is availabe with the Department of Meteorology, it is need to pay a high price for.
Dear Samarakoon,
You can find in the European Climate Assessment & Dataset (http://www.ecad.eu) daily gridded observational dataset for precipitation, temperature and sea level pressure in Europe. The E-OBS dataset (Haylock et al 2008) is available for downloading in format NetCDF which it is possible to manage through the packages i.a. "ncdf4" (Pierce et al, 2012) or "RNetCDF" (Michna et al 2012) of the R Project for Statistical Computing.
Kind regards,
Arturo
Dear Samarakoon,
One of the CM SAF datasets will surely be helpful, too:
www.cmsaf.eu
Dear Samarakoon, TRMM data is reasonably accurate and will be a good data for precipitation. we have used it in desert (kuwait) where it performed well. You can see out paper on RG where we did an assessment between measured precipitation and TRMM and also used weighted bilinear extrapolation.
I am going through the data bases. Some are adjusted, I now trying to get required softwere for opening the data and get used to some of the soft were . THanka
You can also download ASCII files and dat files which can be reploted in arcGIS
Dear Samarakoon,
sorry it is a late reply, but you maybe want to have a look also at the "Climate Explorer" website http://climexp.knmi.nl , which collects most of observative and reanalysis data available at the moment (including TRMM). It is very user-friendly, as you have just to ask which kind of data you need, for which period/region and the site provides all the relevant data and the links.
Hope this helps
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