Global Climate/Weather Assessment Links
Please email me (Cathy) at (cathy.smith@noaa.gov) if you know of additional links that should be included.
Integrated Sites
ENSO Regional Effects (OGP)Shows impacts of ENSO on various global regions. Shows how a global climate impact page could be organized. A similar pages include CNN's impact page A similar global climate page can be found at EarthWeek: It shows a map of the latest natural events round the globe.A page similar to this one can be found at Weather and Global Monitoring from Charles Stuart University. Page lists weather & global monitoring links but is not extensive.
Page lists various natural disasters in the US and background on each. Includes floods, landslides, and wildfires. There is extensive discussion of economic impacts of both the disasters and the forecasts. See also Natural Disasters: Forecasting Economic and Life Losses. Main page is USGS Hazards Theme PageNSF Integrated Earth Information Server
This server is a prototype Integrated Earth Information Server (IEIS, as in eyes on the globe). It is built on the infrastructure provided by the nation-wide Unidata Internet Data Distribution (IDD) network, in which participating universities have established information servers containing a range of earth-related data. The status of this product is unclear.
NASA Climate Impacts (papers on many topics but mostly climate change)Greenpeace searchable climate impacts database Choose climate science and then click on impacts database. Possibly good prototype.
Current Climate
- CPC Climate Monitoring Products
Various climate maps, timeseries and reports for the current global climate. Includes the Climate Diagnostic Bulletin- CDC Climate Maproom
Current plots of many global variables at different time scales (daily, monthly, and seasonal values).- JISAO Climate Snapshot
Analyses of the present climate: rainfall, temperature, pressure, and geopotential height- TAO Buoys
Real time plots of SST, winds, thermocline depth, ocean heat content and other related variables.- List of all nation's weather centers (WMO)
- Compiled list of global climate summary sources
- Global climate values from Brugge
Global short-term climate forecasts
- NWS Forecasts US and some global short-term weather forecasts.
- USAToday Weather Page US and some global short-term weather forecasts. Extensive links to weather information
- Freese Private company that prepares forecasts and other climate weather/services for various industries including agriculture, aviation, energy, etc.
- Accuweather: Private company that prepares weather forecasts.
Long Range Weather Forecasts
- COLA 1-10 day outlooks: Temperature, precipitation, and soil moisture forecasts for various regions of the globe (from the MRF).
- MRF 0-168 hour forecasts for the US (from CDC maproom).
- Week 2 forecast probabilitiesMaps show the forecast probability of being in the upper tercile or the lower tercile for the northern hemisphere. (from CDC)
- NCEP Ensemble Forecasts: Animations and maps of the NCEP Ensemble forecasts including 'Spaghetti', Standard Deviation, anomaly and anomaly probability plots (from CDC).
Climate Forecasts
- IRI Forecasts:
Coupled model forecasts including, the official precipitation & temperature probability forecasts, TEC Tropical Atlantic SST Forecasts, Dynamical computer model predictions from 3 Climate Models (ECHAM, NCEP, CCM3) with different prescribed SST's, and probability distributions of climate forecasts from the different climate forecasts (ECHAM, NCEP, CCM3).- NOAA Seasonal Climate Prediction Theme Page: Extensive collection of links to topics related to NOAA's strategic goal of seasonal to interannual climate prediction.
- Experimental Long-Lead Forecast Bulletin (CPC): Includes various "experimental" forecasts of SST, global and regional climate variables.
- Monthly and 3-monthly temperature and precipitation outlook (CPC)
- Seasonal forecasts for temperature and precipitation (CPC)
- Seasonal climate extremes for the US from Scripps based on ENSO phase.
- Seasonal Climate Anomalies (NCEP/EMC/Climate Modeling Branch) Unofficial global and US seasonal climate forecasts and verifications.
Climatologies
- NCEP Reanalysis Atlas: Interactive plots of climate variables including long term means (CDC)
- Various atmospheric climatologies from JISAO including precipitation and rainfall.
Various links plus their own products including movies of temperature and precipitation, (MSU), the Legates/MSU climatology, digital global station precipitation and temperature data.- Ferret: access to COADS data.
Page allows interactive plotting of COADS monthly climatologies including SST, winds, SLP, humidity. Users can also obtain data.- NCDC: Various climatologies with an extensive dataset and report collection.
- NCEP Operational Data: Interactive plots of daily (and averages) climate data including longterm daily means (CDC)
- NCEP Reanalysis Compositing Page: Interactive plots of monthly variables including mean, anomalies and longterm monthly means (CDC)
- ISSCP Cloud project:Global maps of climatologies.
- Worldclimate Climate for many cities round the world
- Fire (European Space Agency) limited year atlas
Specific Natural Events
Agriculture/food
- Agri-Biz Global Weather and Crop Conditions: Extensive links to current weather conditions, crop conditions, forecasts, etc.
- Winter and Summer Crops current state from the Joint Agricultural Facility. Includes Special Assessments. Many links including Famine Early Warning System
- El Nino and crops from the Food and Agriculture organization of the UN.
- El Nino and Forestry from the Food and Agriculture organization of the UN.
- Climate change and forestry
- Agricultural Weather for the US
- Agricultural forecasts for US from Agricultural Weather Information Service (private)
Drought/Flood
- The National Drought Mitigation Center. Includes links to current US, the global and many global monitoring sites
- CPC Drought Monitoring Products (actually, all products including precip).
- North American Drought Variability including current
Hurricanes
- CO State Hurricane Forecasts
- USAToday forecasts
- Hurricane Tracking from the Mining Company
- NOAA's National Hurricane Center
Images
- NOAA directory of events (pictures various local weather events) like fire,ice, flood, etc.
- Weather cams
Energy
Water Resources
- Global Hydrology and Climate Center Includes Regional Assessments (NASA).
- US Water Conditions
Monsoon
Fishing
- Fisheries from the FAO of the UN
- El Nino and fisheries
Fire
Health
Sea-Ice
- NCEP Sea Ice Home Page: current analysis and climatologies
Lightning
Avalanches
Snowfall
- Satellite snow products
- Snotel data and plots
- Colorado Snow Information: (links to other states at bottom of page).
Lightning
Avalanches
Climate Change
Sea Surface Temperatures/El Niño
- El Niño Advisory (CPC)
- Forecast Forum (CPC) - technical discussion of forecasts from different centers
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Forecast Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Temperature,
looking forward 3 Seasons, 0-5 months, and 6-11 months.(NCEP/EMC/Climate Modeling Branch) - Experimental El Niño Forecast (Scripps/Max Plank)
- Linear Inverse Modeling Forecast of the Pacific (CDC)
- Linear Inverse Modeling Forecast of the Atlantic (CDC)
- Equatorial Pacific SSTA forecasts (Lamont Doherty)
- Pacific SST Model Predictions (COLA)
- Comparison of forecasts from 3 climate models (IRI)
By Location (instead of event)
Miscellaneous
Natural Hazards Research Center- International weather news and risk assessment(private) (warning- annoying popup that's hard to get rid of)
- Earth watch
- International links to disaster sites