Citizenschallenge: Discovered and revealed! - Where the climate codes and data have been hiding

{edited 8/7/2013}

A lot of folks have been convinced climatologists are hiding data - that's why it was interesting to came across this list while I was compiling my previous post. It doesn't quite jive with the steady stream of accusations and innuendo folks like ClimateAudit's Mr. McIntyre send out:

"I have an ongoing campaign to improve standards of data archiving, disclosure and due diligence - which are independent of any particular substantive points on paleoclimate studies. I have no idea why the “Hockey Team”, as they styled themselves, have elected to withhold data and methods from scrutiny; it’s an unwinnable position, but they’ve done so and I’ll continue to criticize them on this point." (CA, Blog Rules and Road Map)

I think a review of the following list makes clear that such talk is political dirty tricks - and not a reflection of reality or the situation within the climate science community.

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Data Sources

Filed under: — group @ 27 November 2009

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/data-sources/

This page is a catalogue that will be kept up to date pointing to selected sources of code and data related to climate science. Please keep us informed of any things we might have missed, or any updates to the links that are needed.

Climate data (raw)
Climate data (processed)
Paleo-data
Auxiliary data
Paleo Reconstructions (including code)
Large-scale model (Reanalysis) output
Large-scale model (GCM) output
Model codes (GCMs)
Model codes (other)
Data Visualisation and Analysis
Master Repositories of climate and other Earth Science data

Climate data (raw)

GHCN v.2 (Global Historical Climate Network: weather station records from around the world, temperature and precipitation)

USHCN US. Historical Climate Network (v.1 and v.2)
World Monthly Surface Station Climatology UCAR

Antarctic weather stations

European weather stations (ECA)
Italian Meterological Society IMS
Satellite feeds (AMSU, SORCE (Solar irradiance), NASA A-train, Ocean Color)

Tide Gauges (Proudman Oceanographic Lab)

World Glacier Monitoring Service
Argo float data
International Comprehensive Ocean/Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS) (Oceanic in situ observations)

AERONET Aerosol information
Arctic data from the Cooperative Arctic Data and Information Service (CADIS)

Climate data (processed)

Surface temperature anomalies (GISTEMP (see also Clear Climate Code), HadCRU (alternate site), NOAA NCDC, JMA, Berkeley Earth)
Satellite temperatures (MSU) (UAH, RSS, Zou et al)
Sea surface temperatures (Reynolds et al, OI)

Stratospheric temperature

Sea ice (Cryosphere Today, NSIDC, JAXA, Bremen, Arctic-Roos, DMI)

Radiosondes (RAOBCORE, HadAT, U. Wyoming, RATPAC, IUK, Sterin (CDIAC), Angell (CDIAC) )
Cloud and radiation products (ISCCP, CERES-ERBE)
Sea level (U. Colorado, NOAA)
Aerosols (AEROCOM, GACP)

Greenhouse Gases (AGGI at NOAA, CO2 Mauna Loa, World Data Center for Greenhouse Gases, AIRS CO2 data (2003+))

AHVRR data as used in Steig et al (2009)

Snow Cover (Rutgers)

GLIMS glacier database

Ocean Heat Content: NODC, PMEL

Ocean CO₂ (CDIAC)

GCOS Essential Climate Variables Index

NOAA Climate Indicators State of the Climate 2009

Paleo-data

GISP2 (note that the age model has been updated)

National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
Insolation (i.e. Milankovitch cycles): Lasker (2004), Berger and Loutre (1991), Huybers (2006)

Auxiliary data

Solar System Calculations (JPL Horizons)

Paleo Reconstructions (including code)

Large-scale model (Reanalysis) output

These are weather models which have the real world observations assimilated into the solution to provide a ‘best guess’ of the evolution of weather over time (although pre-satellite era estimates (before 1979) are less accurate).

ERA40 (1957-2001, from ECMWF)
ERA-Interim (1989 – present, ECMWF’s latest project)
NCEP (1948-present, NOAA), NCEP-2
MERRA NASA GSFC
JRA-25 (1979-2004, Japanese Met. Agency)

Large-scale model (GCM) output

These is output from the large scale global models used to assess climate change in the past, and make projections for the future. Some of this output is also available via the Data Visualisation tools linked below.