Bookmarks for IDS:

Climate data:

NCDC climate data and applications

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/climate/climateresearch.html

References on the use of cave features to describe past climates

http://www.geology.uiowa.edu/~luigi/#paleoclimate

Short paper on the year-to-year climate changes

http://www.gcrio.org/ocp97/ch2.html#seaclivar

Carbon dioxide concentration over about 1000 years

http://www.gcrio.org/ocp97/co2time.html

Home page for NOAA Paleoclimatology Program- climate data sets and curriculum ideas

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/paleo.html

CLIMVIS site- visualize world climate data

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/onlineprod/drought/xmgr.html

USGS Circular on climate change, hydrology, and vegetation

http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/pub/circulars/c1153/c1153_1.htm

Tree-ring lab at Univ of Ariz- Excel spreadhseets with tree-ring and climate data already in column format

http://www.ltrr.arizona.edu/~sheppard/chautauqua/

Home page for the Tree-ring lab at the Univ of Ariz

http://www.ltrr.arizona.edu/

Use of climate data (mostly trees) in the American southwest

http://tree.ltrr.arizona.edu/~sheppard/swclimate/paleofigs3.html

Short paper on the climate of the southwest

http://tree.ltrr.arizona.edu/~sheppard/swclimate/swclim.htm

Fire history research at the Univ of Ariz – Tree-ring research lab

http://www.ltrr.arizona.edu/~sheppard/swland/swfire.html

IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library

http://ingrid.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/

Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center Frequently Requested Global Change Products

http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/pns/top10.html

AmeriFlux Long-term CO2 flux measurements of the Americas

http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/programs/ameriflux/

CO₂ emissions from North America

http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/trends/emis/tre_nam.htm

Atmospheric carbon dioxide record from Mauna Loa

http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/trends/co2/sio-mlo.htm

US Global Change Research Plan home page

http://www.usgcrp.gov/

Ultimate Tree-ring web pages

http://tree.LTRR.Arizona.EDU/~grissino/henri.htm

Practice exercises for using skeleton plots for dendrochronolgy from Paul Sheppard at the Univ of Ariz

http://www.ltrr.arizona.edu/~sheppard/SkeletonPlot/SkeletonPlot18.htm

“The Office of Global Programs (OGP) leads the NOAA Climate and Global Change (C&GC) Program. OGP assists NOAA by sponsoring focused scientific research aimed at understanding

climate variability and its predictability. Through studies in these areas, researchers coordinate activities that jointly contribute to improved predictions and assessments of climate variability over a continuum of time scales from season to season, year to year, and over the course of a decade and beyond.”

http://www.ogp.noaa.gov/

Use this form to search the International Tree Ring Data Bank.

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/ftp-treering.html

Historical climatic data sets

http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/epubs/ndp019/ndp019.html#TOP

Global Change Master Directory- links to all sorts of climate resources

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html

EPA Global Warming site

http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/

NOAA (NCDC) site on global warming

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/climate/globalwarming.html

Washington Climate Summaries

http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/summary/climsmwa.html

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Educational sites:

Curriculum Modules for the Pacific Schools - Climate Change and Sea Level—primary and secondary?

http://www.arm.gov/docs/education/lessons/tlessons.html

“In this project students learn about the scientific factors that contribute to the controversial global warming debate. The project places students as advisors to the heads of state of several different nations, prompting students to learn about the issue as they respond to the various questions and concerns of these leaders. As expert scientists on the issue, the class will need to understand and be able to explain to the heads of state what forces affect climate and what global warming actually means.”

http://www.letus.nwu.edu/projects/gw/

“Download lesson plans, teacher resources, and student handouts.” Same site as one above

http://www.letus.nwu.edu/projects/gw/activities.html#partII

“Tune in here for information on Web Chats, science experiments, contests, special features, and other exciting GLOBE events.”

http://www.globe.gov/

“Each set of 20-40 slides includes vivid photographs of field research conducted around the globe, high-quality graphics of important datasets, and descriptive diagrams, making these sets ideal instructional aides. Unless otherwise noted, these materials are appropriate at the collegiate level, as they assume that students have a working knowledge of the basic sciences. Included is a narrative that is designed to accompany the slides, a bibliography, and a vocabulary list.”

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/slideorder.html

Links to Earth System Science courses around the country

http://www.usra.edu/esse/courselinks/

“The goal of this site is to serve as a repository for Earth System Science education and research resources - a starting point for your reference as you explore this expanding interdisciplinary field, or a place to look for the latest ESS developments.”

http://www.usra.edu/esse/essonline/home.html

Course outline for Earth System Science course

http://courses.ncsu.edu/classes/mea100/Public/syllabus.html

Global change course at the Univ of Mich.- course topics and notes

http://www.sprl.umich.edu/GCL/outline-1.html

Links to climate and weather courses around the US

http://www.lib.noaa.gov/docs/education.html#academic

Short text on climate change from a course at the Univ of Colo

http://www.colorado.edu/GeolSci/courses/GEOL1060/1060.climchange.html

The Terrestrial Biosphere and Global Change course at Univ of Colo

http://www.colorado.edu/GeolSci/courses/GEOL1060/1060.EcoClim.html

NASA Global Change Learning Center

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/Learning/data.html

Destination: Earth—“Official” web site for NASA’s Earth Science Enterprise

http://www.earth.nasa.gov/

Univ of Ill. Weather World 2010 site-“The following classroom activities introduce a variety of fundamental topics in meteorology.  All necessary data and instructional resources are accessible from each activity. In addition, each activity is accompanied by a corresponding teacher guide (or answer key). Up to 90 minutes of classroom time may be needed to complete each activity.”

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gl)/guides/crclm/act/home.rxml

Quantitative Environmental Learning Project (QELP) site at Seattle Central

http://www.seattlecentral.org/qelp/

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 Weather data:

Univ of Ill. Weather World 2010 site- “The Online Meteorology Guide is a collection of web-based instructional modules that use multimedia technology and the dynamic capabilities of the web. These resources incorporate text, colorful diagrams, animations, computer simulations, audio and video to introduce fundamental concepts in the atmospheric sciences.”

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/home.rxml

NOAA Observed Sounding Locations map

http://www.arl.noaa.gov/ready/sonde.html

NOAA NWS Observational Upper-Air Sounding

http://www.arl.noaa.gov/ready-bin/sonde.pl?WMO=UIL

NOAA NWS Forecast models

http://www.arl.noaa.gov/ready/cmet.html

Real-time Weather data – North America

http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/upper/

More general site for the site above

http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/

Univ of WA Atmospheric Sciences Department web site. Good connections to local forecasts and data. Alos connections to class materials in ATM SCI classes

http://www.atmos.washington.edu/

Archived Northwest Surface Observations—you can get historical local weather data from this site

http://www.atmos.washington.edu/data/old_obs.cgi

Weather Visualizer—excellent reference site

http://storm.atmos.uiuc.edu/covis2/visualizer/surface.html

Weather Forecasting and Analysis

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/er/lwx/wesh/wxmaps.htm

Univ of Ill. Weather World 2010 site- discussion of fronts

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/af/frnts/home.rxml

On-line weather course page—it has some links to weather data

http://www.ametsoc.org/amsedu/online/info/ol_activity/index.html

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Other global change:

Earth Probe TOMS Data & Images- satellite data from 96 to present—measures ozone concentrations

http://jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov/eptoms/ep.html

Daily magnetogram—shows variations in the Earth’s magnetic field

http://gaea.es.flinders.edu.au/~mgfhc/RealMagnetogram.htm

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