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ARIA Arizona Regional Image Archive
Digital image and map data for the Sonoran desert region, including the US Southwest and northern Mexico, as well as links between research and instructional programs in the earth science disciplines, particularly as they relate to climate variability and change.

AZMET Arizona Meteorological Network
Source of meteorological data and weather-based information for Arizona, including air and soil temperature, humidity, solar radiation, wind speed and direction, and precipitation. Geared mainly toward agricultural and horticultural users, the site also has data on heat units, chill hours and crop evapotranspiration rates.

Biogeophysical Dynamics Laboratory
Global climate model created by the Biogeochemical Dynamics Laboratory (BGDL), Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona

Bureau of Reclamation Agrimet System--Pacific Northwest
Data, maps, and other information about agriculture in the Pacific Northwest. The AgriMet network consists of over 50 agricultural weather stations located throughout the Pacific Northwest

Bureau of Reclamation Hydromet System--Pacific Northwest
Near-real-time data from over 300 hydrological and metrological monitoring stations in the Pacific Northwest.

California Applications Program (CAP)
Weather information and forecasts tailored to California users. Includes highlights of research projects such as Yosemite National Park Hydroclimate Modeling, impacts of the past two dry winters in California, fire predictions, water quality and quantity impacts, etc.

CCCma: Canadian Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis
University of Victoria center conducting research in coupled and atmospheric climate modeling, sea-ice modeling, climate variability and predictability, the carbon cycle, and a number of other areas.

CDC Interactive Plotting and Analysis Pages
Offers monthly/seasonal mean composites, linear seasonal/monthly correlations, daily composites, US climate division maps, ENSO climate comparisons and risks, and other related types of climate information.

CDC Mean Monthly Composites
Choose variables, analysis level, time range, plot types and map projections to create a variety of monthly or seasonal climate composites.

CDC US Climate Divisions Plotting Page
Choose variables, type of plot and time span to create plots based on the National Climatic Data Center's climate division dataset; or get time series and correlate atmosphere ocean time series with climate division data.

Climate Diagnostics Center (NOAA-CIRES)
Data related to predicting important climate variations on time scales ranging from one month to centuries by identifying major patterns of climate variability on decadal and longer time scales, and investigating the role of air-sea interactions in modulating decadal-to-centennial variability; includes the Western Water Assessment, El Niño/La Niña information, U.S. predictions, forecasts and anomalies, maps and other information.

CLIMVIS Overview
Introduction to an interactive visualization program that allows National Climatic Data Center users to view the climate in over 10,000 locations worldwide using time series graphs of temperature, precipitation, wind speed, etc.

CLIMVIS: Interactive climate graphing page (for U.S. climate divisions)
Criteria selection page for the CLIMVIS program, including climate division within a U.S. state, year to be graphed and output format.

CLIMVIS: NCDC's Climate Visualization System Presentation
Selection page for CLIMVIS climate visualization graphics, including options for National Weather Service summary of the day, global summary of the day, U.S. climate division information, and global historical climate data.

COAPS Center for Ocean-Atmosphere Prediction Studies
Florida State University program that performs research in air-sea interaction, ocean and coupled air-sea modeling, climate predictions on scales of months to decades, statistical studies and predictions of social economic consequences of ocean-sea variations, particularly ENSO-related events.

Coarse-Scale Spatial Data for Wildland Fire and Fuel Management
Offers maps and mapping data integrating biophysical and remotely sensed data for fire management and research

Colorado Basin River Forecast Center
NOAA center for Colorado River weather, climate, streamflow, and water supply forecasts and information. Information on river warnings and watches, recreational conditions, flood outlooks, seasonal forecasts, as well as hydrographs for Southwest Rivers.

Cooperative Observer Station Data Inventory for Arizona (NOAA/NWS)
Data for weather stations in Arizona allowing selection by NCDC ID, the station name, elevation, latitude, longitude, starting year and month, observation types, and ending year and month.

Cooperative Observer Station Data Inventory for New Mexico (NOAA/NWS)
Data for weather stations in New Mexico allowing selection by NCDC ID, the station name, elevation, latitude, longitude, starting year and month, observation types, and ending year and month.

CPC Climate Prediction Center Climate Diagnostics Bulletin
A monthly bulletin that reports on the previous month's status of the ocean-atmosphere climate system in the tropics and extratropics and provides various seasonal outlooks.

CPC ENSO Diagnostic Discussion
The CPC issues the monthly ENSO Diagnostic Discussion to address the current oceanic and atmospheric conditions in the Pacific and the seasonal climate outlook for the following one to three seasons.

CPC Evaporation Web Page
A series of maps showing current month & most recent 12 months average evaporation and anomalies; previous 12 months percentiles; evaporation climatology and 1 & 2 week outlooks.

Desert Research Institute
A nonprofit, statewide division of the University and Community College System of Nevada, DRI conducts basic and applied environmental research on a local, national, and international scale, some of which is climate-related.

Diagnostic Studies of the North American Monsoon System
Information on many aspects of the North American monsoon (NAM), including real-time precipitation monitoring, mean monthly circulation and precipitation over the NAM region, explanations of how the NAM works, and recent related publications.

DODS: Distributed Oceanographic Data System
Free software and framework to simplify scientific data networking via servers that make local data accessible to remote locations regardless of local storage format.

Dynamic Maps of Sea Level Rise
The University of Arizona's Environmental Studies Laboratory provides dynamic maps of projected sea level rise.

Earth Data Analysis Center ESIP Project (UNM)
A regional assessment of the Upper Rio Grande Basin that is developing data products and information focusing on land economics, regional hydrology, and air quality; based at the University of New Mexico.

Forecast Evaluation Tool
This tool allows for an online examination of the successes and failures of past forecasts by climate division, season, and lead time of the forecast.

GCPS: The Global Climate Perspectives System (NCDC)
Selection of graphics and gridded global datasets, including modeled temperature and precipitation, in addition to Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) temperature data.

Global Change Data and Information System (GCDIS)
U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)-sponsored umbrella site with news, publications and datasets regarding all aspects of policies, agencies and research related to global climate change.

Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction & Research
UK-based assessment of natural and anthropogenic changes in global and regional climate, including information on climate predictions, models and monitoring and the carbon cycle.

Historical Hurricane Tracks (NOAA Coastal Services Center)
Provides an interactive mapping application that allows you to easily search and display 150 years of Atlantic Basin tropical cyclone data. Some of these storms have affected New Mexico.

HyDIS Hydrological Data Information System
Hydrological and climatological maps, data, and research that makes use of state-of-the-art EOS satellite data. Designed to improve the understanding of the spatial and temporal distribution of precipitation in the Southwest U.S.

Indices of Climate Change for the United States: An NCDC/AMS report
NOAA/National Climatic Data Center site presenting the aggregate of two indices of climate change, the Climate Extremes Index (CEI) and the U.S. Greenhouse Climate Response Index (GCRI), to quantify observed changes in climate within the contiguous United States.

International Research Institute for Climate and Society
Collaboration between the NOAA Office of Global Programs; this research and training program offers summaries of global climate events and their impacts, seasonal climate outlooks and forecast evaluation, prediction modeling and other climate-related products.

National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)
This arm of NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) supplies National Weather Service field offices, government agencies, emergency managers, private sector meteorologists, and meteorological organizations and societies throughout the world with a wide variety of national and international weather products; the starting point for nearly all weather and climate forecasts in the U.S.

National Climatic Data Center
Billing itself as "the world's largest archive of weather data," this NOAA store offers online subscriptions to a variety of global, national, state and local weather reports and forecasts, CD-ROMs and files of climate data, maps and charts, and myriad other weather and climate products.

National Climatic Data Center - State-by-State Climate Division Map Listing
Climate division maps of all 50 states (no text).

National Climatic Data Center Drought Termination and Amelioration
Features a calculator for determining how much precipitation is needed to end drought for every NOAA climate division in the U.S.

National Climatic Data Center Drought Termination and Amelioration Ending Current Drought
Maps depicting the precipitation, associated probabilities and percent of normal precipitation needed to end or ameliorate drought as it currently exists across the country. Twelve of the images depict the amount of precipitation needed for drought termination and amelioration over time scales from 1 to 6 months. Twelve images depict the associated probabilities of receiving the necessary amount of precipitation. The final 12 images depict the percent of normal precipitation which is required to end or ameliorate drought.

National Water and Climate Center (USDA-NRCS)
Spatial snow, water, climate, and hydrologic network of information and technology.

National Weather Service
Weather data, warnings, forecasts, current conditions and weather maps on international, national and regional levels.

National Weather Service Tucson Experimental Graphical Forecasts for Southeast Arizona
Select forecast parameters such as temperature, dew point, humidity and sky cover to receive a digital forecast for the selected point at 2.5 km grid resolution.

National Weather Service Tucson Precipitation Frequency
Recurrence intervals of rain events for weather observation stations in Arizona.

NCAR: National Center for Atmospheric Research
Research and outreach on atmospheric and related science problems of the earth system, including climate change, changes in atmospheric composition, Earth-Sun interactions, weather formation and forecasting, and the impacts of these components on human societies.

NCDC Climate Resources
Datasets of surface, marine and upper air information updated hourly or daily and summarized; publications, reports, maps and other data sources available.

NCDC National Climatic Data Center Climatic Data Online
Listing of on-line data sources, including most popular data and products, international hazard support capabilities, and digital datasets.

NEDI National Environmental Data Index
One-stop access to government environmental data holdings and information descriptions from a variety of agencies, including USDA, Department of Interior, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and many others.

NGDC National Geophysical Data Center
Access to more than 300 digital and analog databases of geophysical information, covering bathymetry/topography, geomagnetism, habitat, hazards, ocean geosciences, paleoclimate, snow and ice, solar and space weather, etc.

NOAA Climate Prediction Center (CPC)
NOAA site focused on assessing and forecasting the impacts of short-term climate variability and weather-related extreme events. Includes assessments of drought and other climate threats, and outlooks, monitoring and data.

NOAA Climate Prediction Center Global Precipitation Monitoring
Graphs of accumulated and observed precipitation for the most recent 30, 90 and 365 days for selected cities.

NOAA Hydrologic Information Center Soil Information
Links to the Palmer Drought Severity Index, Crop Moisture Index, Soil Moisture Monitoring, Prediction and Outlook, and the Keetch-Byram Drought Index.

NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Information about the organization and structure of NOAA, research initiatives and results, current and historical weather and climate events and trends, and a wealth of links to NOAA entities.

NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
Project descriptions, data, journal articles, and links to other sites related to the study of climate of the distant past (prior to human-measured records). Major subject areas include fire, tree rings, ice cores, pollen, boreholes, modeling, coral, and lake sediments.

NOAA Server
Access to NOAA data and information; search by keyword, time range and geographical coverage, or select from fourteen different databases according to specific criteria.

NRCS National Water and Climate Center
Spatial snow, water, climate, and hydrologic network of information and technology.

NWS Phoenix - The Climate Vault
Offers both current and historical climate data for Phoenix, Arizona as well as other cities throughout the Southwestern U.S., including archived satellite and radar imagery, sun(moon)rise and sun(moon)set data, and climate means and extremes.

Office of the State Climatologist for Arizona
Monthly statewide temperature and precipitation graphs and maps; tables and graphs of climate norms and historical data (Arizona State University).

Oregon Climate Service: Pacific Northwest climate information
Source of detailed Oregon climate information ranging from climate maps, weather maps, and climate data to observations, forecasts and satellite data.

PACS PanAmerican Climate Studies
A component of the U.S. Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System (GOALS) program aimed at extending the scope and improving the skill of operational seasonal-to-interannual climate prediction over the Americas. Research projects on a variety of topics pertaining to understanding variations of the atmosphere-land-ocean system and their effects on the climate of the Americas.

PRISM Project: Digital climate maps plus reports and papers
Access to digital maps for the Unites States as a whole, for U.S. regions and for some States. Maps are created using point data, digital elevation models, and other spatial data sets to estimate climate on a variety of time scales and generate gridded maps.

Project on Modeling and Projecting Colorado Plateau Vegetation Changes
Abstract and citation information for "Regional Dynamic Vegetation Model for the Colorado Plateau: A Species- Specific Approach"

SAHRA Sustainability of Semi-Arid Hydrology and Riparian Areas
NSF Science and Technology Center housed at the University of Arizona is dedicated to scientific research, education, and public outreach aimed at helping communities in semi-arid regions manage their water resources in a sustainable manner.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography Climate Research Division
Information regarding their research on the development of coupled global ocean and atmosphere models, assessing the role of cloud radiation feedbacks in climate change, and modeling and predicting seasonal climate variability.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography Experimental Climate Prediction Center
Experimental global to regional predictions of the atmosphere, ocean, and land, at daily to interannual time scales, in collaboration with international partners.

Southeast Regional Climate Center
Current weather news reports and articles, historical climate information, drought and agriculture information, hurricane and tornado data, for the southeastern U.S.

TerraServer
USGS topographical maps of U.S. locations and satellite pictures of some famous landmarks.

The University of Arizona Department of Atmospheric Sciences - Weather Imagery
A wide variety of current satellite weather imagery at regional, national and global scales, including images depicting water vapor, infrared measurements, lightning, etc.

The University of Arizona Department of Atmospheric Sciences - Weather Products
The latest measurements from the weather station at the Physics and Atmospheric Sciences Building on the University of Arizona campus, including plots of temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction and barometric pressure.

Three-States Water Project
Precipitation, temperature, snow and stream flow measurements for Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado, including current conditions, past data and climatologies, forecasts and historical relationships.

U.S. National 1961-1990 Climate Normals: 30 Year Climatic Normals defined
CD-ROM covering the current normals period of 1961-1990, with monthly values calculated for approximately 6600 precipitation and 4700 temperature stations, with earlier data/normals are provided for comparison and research applications.

UCAR Unidata Data Sources
An NSF-funded program enabling researchers to acquire and use climate data and software on their own computers. Requires registration through a site license held by many research institutions, including the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Arizona.

United States Climate Page: Interactive climatological information
Climate Diagnostics Center site with climate information for individual cities in the U.S. and climate maps for the U.S.

United States Historical Climatology Network (USHCN)
Developed to assist in the detection of regional climate change; includes a data set derived from 1221 U.S. weather stations including monthly averaged maximum, minimum, and mean temperature and total monthly precipitation.

USGS Arizona Water Science Center
Current Arizona stream flow data in real time; links to an array of Arizona water data; results of water-related projects; on-line fact sheets and news releases.

USGS National Elevation Data Set
Data set developed by merging the highest-resolution, best-quality elevation data available across the United States into a seamless raster format; includes 1:24,000-scale Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data for the conterminous US and 1:63,360-scale DEM data for Alaska

USGS--Real-time Water Data
Clickable map depicting real-time stream flow information on a state-by-state basis for the entire U.S., including long-term median flow rates and comparison of current conditions to the median.

Western Regional Climate Center (WRCC)
Long-lead climate outlooks, historical climate summaries, daily temperature and precipitation data, precipitation maps, climate monitoring and special environmental monitoring projects for the western United States.

World Climate
Compilation of average temperature, rainfall and barometric pressure from decades (in some cases centuries) of climate records for tens of thousands of places around the world. Site notes that it is not suitable for professional research.

World Data Center for Paleoclimatology Drought Page
Reconstructions of drought-related variables such as the Palmer Drought Severity Index, precipitation, stream flow, and lake levels for high-resolution records at scales of centuries to millennia.

WRCC - Climate Summaries by Station for Arizona
Temperature and precipitation records from the 1960s to present for over 200 sites in Arizona.

WRCC - Climate Summaries by Station for New Mexico
Temperature and precipitation records from the 1960s to present for over 200 sites in New Mexico.

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