LDEO Climate Data Catalog
The LDEO Climate Data Library contains a wide variety of earth
science data, primarily oceanographic and
atmospheric datasets. Both the
Brief Introduction and the Data Library Overview
show some of the
many ways the data can be accessed and manipulated.
There
are some step-by-step examples,
as well as as many answered questions.
The Library
is quite powerful. For example, the Data Viewer will let
you explore the dataset of your choice (for a demonstration,
look at World Topography or Ocean Climatologies).
The Library is also quite large. Remember than once you have found
the dataset or even the particular picture you want, you ought to
bookmark it: any page in this library can be bookmarked.
There are several ways of looking for the dataset that you
want.
lets you do keyword searches through descriptions of the datasets.
The descriptions in turn point to the data.
Keyword Search
Search on a keyword or get a variable by name.
Place Name Search
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Most of the data in this catalog is stored by numerical location; much of it is
global. Thus searching by place name is pretty useless in most of the datasets. However,
there are weather data stored by named stations, like the NOAA
Monthly Station
and the NOAA DAILY STATION
data, and searches by name are allowed there.
is a set of short categorical discussions of some of the
datasets, discussions that in turn point to the data. This is a good
place to look to see the kinds of data that are available. Also see
the Introduction to Climate Data, which describes a few of the
more interesting climate datasets, and
the IGOSS Data Products
Bulletin, which selects some of the Library's climate data products that
help monitor world climate.
is a complete list of datasets by local dataset name.
lets you read your own netCDF/HDF/CDF file.
Sample Pages
To illustrate the what can be done with the Data Catalog, here
are some sample pages.
LDEO Climate Group Home Page
Let me know what you think by writing benno@ldeo.columbia.edu
or by posting in the Data
Library Questions and Answers discussion/news group.
Suggestions for datasets, data file formats, and other changes
are especially welcome.
benno@ldeo.columbia.edu
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