You may have noticed there’s a new link at the top of the main page titled “Climate Data Links.” It’s a page I’ve created to collect together links to original data sources related to climate science. Of course others have done this, but it’ll reflect both my own personal preferences and requests from readers.
I don’t intend to be comprehensive; I’d rather keep it simple and easy. But I would like to include those things that readers consider useful and that I’ve used myself for posts here. It’s also just begun, so there are fewer than a dozen links so far, and not all of those are yet active!
So, if you have a link you’d like included on this page, feel free to submit it as a comment on this thread. I may or may not include it! Up to me…
Note: this thread is for link requests for the data page ONLY. There are plenty of other posts here for you to express your opinion on other matters.
14 responses so far ↓
Barton Paul Levenson // January 28, 2008 at 5:46 pm
This page lists and charts Lean’s (2000) TSI reconstructions:
http://members.aol.com/bpl1960/LeanTSI.html
This one lists climate sensitivities found by various models and does some very simple statistical summary:
http://members.aol.com/bpl1960/ClimateSensitivity.html
Atmoz // January 28, 2008 at 5:49 pm
CDC, I mean ESRL, has some nice data products too.
jl // January 28, 2008 at 8:27 pm
http://climexp.knmi.nl/start.cgi?someone@somewhere lots of stuff
http://bluemoon.ucsd.edu/data.html this link has oxygen decreasing
http://www.argo.net/ sea temperature
http://sealevel.colorado.edu/ sea level
danwalsh // January 28, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Coastal inundation:
http://archive.cyark.org/hazards/index.php
I wouldn’t say the data is anything very original: it’s just based off of elevation data from NASA, but the presentation is nice and really gives a good idea who’s going to be underwater come the day after tomorrow.
Henk Lankamp // January 28, 2008 at 11:53 pm
the sun:
http://sidc.oma.be/sunspot-data/
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/SOLAR/ftpcosmicrays.html
sea-ice:
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/archives/
glaciers:
http://www.geo.unizh.ch/wgms/index.html
sea level:
http://www.pol.ac.uk/psmsl/datainfo/
upper atmosphere / radiosonde:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/ratpac/index.php?name=access
CraigM // January 29, 2008 at 1:43 am
Sorry, I have no links. Just a suggestion. You might wanna archive your posts a little Tamino. Like they do over at RC. You have a nice body of work and i occassionally go back over stuff you’ve written, but it can be a little hard finding stuff because i cant remember when you wrote something…or the title of the post (though i do tend to have good luck with google btw). Just an idea.
The Wonderer // January 29, 2008 at 3:07 am
I don’t have a data link either, but “Graphic Evidence” from last September is one of my all time favorite posts of yours. It would be an excellent summary to keep updated and linked at the top of your site. All the lines of evidence, so to speak, pictorially.
John Mashey // January 29, 2008 at 4:12 am
Swiss Glacier website:
http://glaciology.ethz.ch/messnetz/
It has nice summaries, and all the details.
http://glaciology.ethz.ch/messnetz/lengthvariation.html
http://glaciology.ethz.ch/messnetz/massbalance.html
Glacier records are particularly nice because they do their own smoothing. Of course, the Swiss are fanatic record keepers [I still have an ancestor's farm journal from the late 1800s, recording to the penny every transaction across 50 years], and this is a consistent record over many glaciers and many years, and in some cases (due to paintings or items found as glaciers retreat, may have records that go much further back.
Leif Svalgaard // January 29, 2008 at 2:12 pm
TSI reconstruction (xls)
TSI reconstruction (txt)
TSI reconstruction (pdf)
http://www.leif.org/research/GC31B-0351-F2007.pdf ((No?)Century-scale Secular Variation in HMF, EUV, or TSI; AGU Fall 2007)
tamino // January 29, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Note to readers: thanks for the links. I’m definitely going to add most of them to the data links page, but I’m also working on the next post, I have a doctor’s appointment today, and for some strange reason my employer wants me to work for *him*.
So be patient, but expect most of these suggested links to appear soon. In the meantime, you can get to them from *this* page!
Heretic // January 30, 2008 at 2:35 am
I agree with The Wonderer. “Graphic Evidence” was a great post and deserves to be regularly revisited, updated, expanded. Your own graphs, combined with datalinks, would make a most useful page on the site. Of course, there is that pesky employer of yours always demanding some sort of work to be done, so we’ll understand if our wishes aren’t fully met…
And thanks to Dr. Svalgaard; a good part of your paper is beyond me, but from glancing at it, it seems that TSI did not vary that much, either for the MWP or 2nd half of the 20th century, and even during the so-called Maunder minimum. Am I mistaken or is this a somewhat new take on solar activity?
tamino // January 31, 2008 at 3:14 pm
I was reminded (quite correctly) that I have forbidden discussion on *this thread* of anything but possible links to useful data (and I’ll extend that to useful graphs). Hence I have followed my own proscription by deleting the non-relevant comments. Those wishing to argue various points will find numerous threads on which to do so.
I reiterate that I intend to include most of these links, and I’ll mention that I intend to fix the link to Mauna Loa CO2 measurements, but it’ll take a little time. I’ve also decided to make “graphic evidence” into its own page, and add graphs to it from time to time.
All of which makes even more work for an already busy moderator! Oh well … I’ll never be bored.
Heretic // January 31, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Fair enough. I thought perhaps John V’s data deserved to be linked, isn’t best to serve skeptics their own medicine?
http://www.opentemp.org/main
luminous beauty // February 2, 2008 at 6:05 pm
http://www.iac.ethz.ch/en/climatology/data_inventory.php
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