NASA GISTEMP: Main website
https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
CSV File: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata_v4/GLB.Ts+dSST.csv
Text File: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata_v4/GLB.Ts+dSST.txt
AIRS IR Data: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata_v4/T_AIRS/GLB.Ts+dSST.txt
One of the most trusted sources for global and zonal surface temperatures, data from 1880-present. Their data is based on ground recording stations: they now now includes AIRS satellite based data. One of the best in the industry.
Historical File Main Page: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/history/
Release Dates for 2024:
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/dyk/monthly-releases
NASA CERES Satellite:
CERES mission investigates global energy budget, comparing solar radiation entering the planet and infrared radiation exiting- ideally this should be the same amount- by measuring the difference we can see the clear impact of atmospheric absorption of IR leaving the Earth's surface
https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/data/
https://ceres-tool.larc.nasa.gov/ord-tool/srbavg
NOAA:
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/global/time-series/globe/land_ocean/all/01/1850-2024
A comprehensive global, regional, and national source for surface climate data, 1850-present, (NEW, was previously 1880) a very friendly and easily configurable public source.
Note- this link changes monthly, this is for September 2023 data, but it will work for others.
US only link:
Ocean Heat Content including SST and deep sea temperatures
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/global-ocean-heat-content/
And another investigating a panoply of global parameters, there's a great deal worth investigating here.
https://data.noaa.gov/onestop/collections?q=%22NOAA%20Climate%20Data%20Record%22
https://psl.noaa.gov/data/atmoswrit/timeseries/index.html
NCEP Reanalsys link:
https://psl.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/data/timeseries/timeseries1.pl
HadCRUT 5.0:
https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/HadCRUT5.0Analysis_gl.txt
The oldest continuous surface temperature global dataset, 1850-present. Their data is roughly in the mean of all other sources, the gold standard. Typically the last to publish each month.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcrut5/data/HadCRUT.5.0.2.0/download.html
An additional resource is their CRUTEM 5.0.2.0 database of station data, (Note- just changed to 5.0.2.0 Nov 2023)
There's a sister website for sea surface temperatures:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadsst4/data/download.html
RSS (Remote Sensing Services):
Independent company that uses NOAA's satellites & their own data to measure a large variety of global climate indices, 1979-present.
Berkeley Earth:
https://berkeley-earth-temperature.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/Global/Land_and_Ocean_complete.txt
Global and zonal surface temperatures, 1850-present. Ground based. Independent organization, one of the finest sources for detailed climate data for continent, country, regional and city level detail.
Entire website is undergoing construction, the links are frequently broken- until it's repaired and complete consider this as the best gateway: https://berkeleyearth.org/whats-new/?cat=temperature-updates
Overview of all their vast data warehouse (Frequently down as of this time:
https://berkeleyearth.org/data/
New experimental high resolution dataset
https://berkeley-earth-temperature-hr.s3.amazonaws.com/Global_TAVG_monthly.txt
UAH (University of Huntsville, Alabama)
https://www.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/v6.0/tlt/uahncdc_lt_6.0.txt
Global and zonal satellite temperatures, 1979-present. University of Alabama, Huntsville. Uses NOAA satellite data, an outlier.
Copernicus (ERA5):
New DAILY update:
https://pulse.climate.copernicus.eu/
They are no longer publishing the individual monthly site- can't complain it was horrible changing the link every single month.
Global and zonal surface temperatures, 1940-present/ One of the most comprehensive sources on all earth science data.
Climate Reanalyzer:
2 Meter Surface Temperature anomaly
2 Meter Wet Bulb Temperature anomaly
Sea Surface Temperature anomaly:
Several different sets here including: Cloud Cover anomaly
Global Forecast Website:
GLOBAL AND REGIONAL CLIMATE ANOMALIES NCEP: Global Forecast System and Reanalysis
http://www.karstenhaustein.com/climate
Maps and numerical analysis of projected GMST and other parameters for the next ten days
JRA55
Climate Atlas: An independent reanalysis site, featuring almost real time global temperature analysis, down to 6 hour cadences
https://climatlas.com/temperature/jra55_temperature.php
https://climatlas.com/temperature/jra55/JRA55_global_2023.csv https://climatlas.com/temperature/jra55/JRA55_global_1958_2023.csv
JMA: (Japanese Meteorological Agency)
https://ds.data.jma.go.jp/tcc/tcc/products/gwp/temp/list/csv/mon_wld.csv
They share data with other sources, they have the most limited geographical range, which is why they under report changes.
Scrips Institute Weekly CO2 Data:
https://gml.noaa.gov/webdata/ccgg/trends/co2/co2_weekly_mlo.csv
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/weekly.html
Weekly updated global CO2 atmospheric data based on Moana Loa observatory
NOAA:
https://gml.noaa.gov/aggi/aggi.html
NOAA's database for multiple different greenhouse gases, with additional links for individual Excel compatible downloads: Radiative Forcings for each of the major gases since 1979:
https://gml.noaa.gov/aggi/AGGI_Table.csv
Mole Fractions (parts per million or greater) for each of the major gases since 1979:
https://gml.noaa.gov/aggi/NOAA_MoleFractions_2021.csv
NOAA has links for each of the three major GHGs, CO2 is updated daily, and very promptly- CH4 and N2O are lagging by a few months.
https://gml.noaa.gov/webdata/ccgg/trends/co2/co2_trend_gl.txt
https://gml.noaa.gov/webdata/ccgg/trends/n2o/n2o_mm_gl.txt
https://gml.noaa.gov/webdata/ccgg/trends/ch4/ch4_mm_gl.txt
https://gml.noaa.gov/webdata/ccgg/trends/co2/co2_trend_gl.txt
A daily update on global CO2 levels based on multiple monitoring stations.
A comprehensive listing of all active greenhouse gas monitoring sites worldwide; they are arrainged by monitor equipment, nation, location and elevation.
https://gml.noaa.gov/dv/site/index.php?program=ccgg
NOAA Satellites CSU Sea Level links
Updated roughly every few months this provides near real-time data on global mean sea levels
https://sealevel.colorado.edu/files/2023_rel2/gmsl_2023rel2_seasons_rmvd.txt
https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/socd/lsa/SeaLevelRise/LSA_SLR_timeseries.php
https://research.csiro.au/slrwavescoast/sea-level/sea-level-changes/
NOAA Climate Reanalysis
Several different parameters for several series.
https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/reanalysis/
Example:
https://psl.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/data/timeseries/timeseries1.pl
ENSO Projection data
Basic landing page for their El Nino/La Nina potentials
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.shtml
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/strengths/index.php
Australian Bureau of Meteorology ENSO calculators
Almost real time spaghetti string projections and ensemble data for ENSO potentials across the Indian and Pacific Oceans - they're the closest nation with the most potential for local climate effects.
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/index.shtml#tabs=Pacific-Ocean
NASA's GRACE and GRACE-FO Mission data
One of the greatest NASA missions, GRACE and it's follow up are pairs of identical satellites that share a nearly identical orbit- by comparing signals transmitted between the two they can analyze local gravity and therefore examine mass changes, either in water or ice. One of the most elegant experiments ever performed.
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/Grace/index.html
NASA JASON Sea Level Monitoring Satellites:
https://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/data/get-data/
Current Chart: https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-protected/MERGED_TP_J1_OSTM_OST_GMSL_ASCII_V51/GMSL_TPJAOS_5.1.txt
The current database address is to January 2024:
It requires easy registration.
Climate Reanalyzer:
(Note: They've changed their start page to.
https://climatereanalyzer.org/wx/todays-weather/?var_id=t2&ortho=1&wt=1
An excellent visual global "snapshot" of many real time climate data observations. Run by the University of Maine, this is an excellent resource to see what's happening to global climate here and now. Below is my personal choice, today's global and regional comparative temperatures displayed visually and as a series of numbers.
https://climatereanalyzer.org/wx/todays-weather/?var_id=t2anom&ortho=1&wt=1
GITHUB Sources
https://s-rip.github.io/resources/links.html
KNMI
The KNMI Climate Explorer is a web application to analysis climate data statistically. It contains more than 10 TB of climate data and dozens of analysis tools. It is part of the WMO Regional Climate Centre at KNMI.
https://climexp.knmi.nl/selectannualindex.cgi?id=someone@somewhere
NSIDC
National Snow and Ice Data Center:
Another fine source for both data and explainers useful for polar ice extent information, the website is updated daily.
One of their easiest to understand daily sources is "Charctic" a visual guide to polar ice extent,
https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph/
There's a great resource for raw polar ice data inside of their Excel FTP server, you can download easy to understand and work with data files updated daily on polar ice, at many different levels of granularity from the entire pole (both north and south) to each individual region.
https://masie_web.apps.nsidc.org/pub//DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/seaice_analysis/
My personal favorite Excel spreadsheet has both poles individual daily data in a very easy to work with format with some mild analysis already built in. This is a literal "one stop shop" for all polar extent data needs.
Global land ice databases
https://nsidc.org/data/glims/data
Greenland Ice Data:
An excellent source of real time data and analysis on Greenland's melting ice
https://nsidc.org/greenland-today/greenland-today-data-and-analysis-tools/
Spreadsheet on daily Greenland Ice melt area, and various monthly and annual metrics. ftp://ftp.nsidc.org/pub/DATASETS/nsidc0755_nrt_greenland_melt_v1/greenland-daily-melt.xlsx
Antarctic data - British Antarctic Survey:
VISHOP Global Ice Data
" VISHOP is a visualization service to view satellite data on your web browser in quasi-real-time. It is developed to quickly deliver the current polar environment status. " An interesting source, they always seem a bit earlier to provide data than NSIDC (by hours) uses JAXA/NASA data to compile their info. They have nice interactive capabilities even if it seems early 2000s interface.
Home:
https://ads.nipr.ac.jp/vishop-contents/
Global ice extent data
https://ads.nipr.ac.jp/vishop/#/extent
Global Glacial Monitoring Service
A branch of Copernicus, this has a complete global database of the status of individial glacier ice mass (in 1000 M³) since 1885 and in some cases beyond.
https://wgms.ch/global-glacier-state/
OSISAF Sea Ice Index
https://osi-saf.eumetsat.int/products/sea-ice-products
https://osisaf-hl.met.no/v2p1-sea-ice-index
https://data1.geo.tu-dresden.de/ais_alt/
https://data.marine.copernicus.eu/products?facets=mainVariables%7ESea+ice
Polar Science Center:
An excellent resource for Arctic Ice information, the main data page includes links to several different indexes including daily and monthly summaries.
http://psc.apl.uw.edu/research/projects/arctic-sea-ice-volume-anomaly/data/
Arctic Ice Volume Data, in monthly format since 1979:
Arctic sea Ice Forum
One of the best privately run resources to help describe and explain our cryosphere - the world's ice borne regions.
https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php/board,3.0.html
Berkeley Earth Climate Papers Page
http://berkeleyearth.org/papers-climate-science/
There's an excellent set of resources here highlighting their scholastic research on climate topic including station integrity, interpolation methods, and quality assessment of major climate projections.
Max Planck Institute for Solar Research:
https://www2.mps.mpg.de/projects/sun-climate/data.html
The finest source for all solar data, in different time resolutions from daily insolation (solar output measured at the top of Earth's atmosphere: From 1610 to 2018:
https://www2.mps.mpg.de/projects/sun-climate/data/SATIRE-T_SATIRE-S_TSI_20210618.txt
Here's the long term SATIRE-M 8770 year solar output dataset.
https://www2.mps.mpg.de/projects/sun-climate/data/SATIRE-M_wu18_tsi.txt
Colorado State University:
https://lasp.colorado.edu/home/science/
One of the most valuable sources for global climate and solar studies, they cover a large range of databases on previous and active projects, the link below is for the latest solar output studies:
https://lasp.colorado.edu/lisird/
Home Page for all solar missions
Data for daily insolation on the current TSIS total solar irradiance mission
https://lasp.colorado.edu/data/tsis/tsi_data/tsis_tsi_L3_c24h_latest.txt
Sunspot Index and Long-term Solar Observations :
https://www.sidc.be/silso/datafiles
A daily resource for sunspot data from 1818 on, or monthly from 1749 on
https://www.sidc.be/SILSO/DATA/SN_d_tot_V2.0.txt
The current month's data can be found here:
https://www.sidc.be/silso/DATA/EISN/EISN_current.txt
Solar Cycle Data
https://www.sidc.be/SILSO/cyclesminmax
Daily Solar Insolation Data from 1947 to the present
https://www.sidc.be/observations/space-based-timelines/tsi
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ocean and Climate
An excellent resource on global ocean indexes, there's a great deal of information here on climate but the website's navigation is a bit wonky (still better than Copernicus)
Ocean Heat and Energy Index
http://www.ocean.iap.ac.cn/pages/dataService/dataService.html?navAnchor=dataService
2°Institute:
https://www.2degreesinstitute.org/
A great source of climate data with excellent explainers on all of the major topics.
A great place to start is their "Climate Dashboard", it leads to several charts dealing with past and current levels of CO2, CH4, N2O, O2, sea level and surface temperatures. Each section has it's own drop down menu where you can find data at several different time frames and you can zoom in on each chart to examine specific it more closely. Can't recommend any website more highly than this.
https://www.climatelevels.org/?pid=2degreesinstitute&theme=grid-light
Global Milankovitch Data Calculator:
A wonderful resource that can project the future solar energy on any point on the earth for the next 20 million years. Just enter the longitude and latitude, the time you want to look at and how often (in thousands of years) you want it to report data.
http://vo.imcce.fr/insola/earth/online/earth/online/index.php
GREENHOUSE 100 POLLUTERS RESOURCES
Numerical guide to the amount of greenhouse gas emissions by corporation or entity.
https://peri.umass.edu/greenhouse-100-polluters-index-current
Plant survival at low CO2 levels:
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03441.x
New CDC weekly Deaths Download:
https://data.cdc.gov/api/views/4bc2-bbpq/rows.csv?accessType=DOWNLOAD
PAGES2K Working Group Paleoclimate Update website
https://pastglobalchanges.org/publications
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