Home Reseach Teaching Fieldwork Bio Personal Links                                                                       Climate Change Info Links My favorite sources for scientifically robust data and insight on climate change 1. IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007) Summary for Policymakers: Bullet points for those looking for a quick understanding of where we stand Synthethis Report: good overall look at the changing climate and its impacts - more indepth than the SPM Working Group 1: "The Physical Science Basis": Detailed info and climate change data and models Working Group 2: "Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability": Detailed info on impacts of climate change Working Group 3: "Mitigation of Climate Change": Detailed look on what we can do about it 2. Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (2004) Overview report: Summaries of key findings about Arctic climate change Scientific Report: Detailed look at the data and findings 3. RealClimate.org "Climate science from climate scientists". And they really are. These articles are all by very well respected scientists in the field of climate and paleoclimate, and they have great discussions about the topics of the day. 4. US National Climate Change Impact Assessment Report: a 2001 report from the National Assessment Research Team, an advisory committee to the US Global Change Research Program. Like the IPCC but just for the US. Climate Data Links World Data Center for Paleoclimatology: Downloadable raw data from paleoclimate studies of all types Ice Core Gateway: Downloadable raw data from many ice cores collected all over the globe NOAA Climate Prediction Center Climate Prediction Center: El Nino-Southern Oscillation Climate Prediction Center: North Atlantic Oscillation Climate Prediction Center: Pacific/North American Pattern Climate Prediction Center: Alaska storm tracks NOAA National Climate Data Center: Climate Monitoring: Detailed monthly reports on global climate NOAA National Climate Data Center: US Climate at a Glance: See maps and create your own plots of national, regional, and state temperature and precipitation over the past 100 years. Downloadable gridded Northern Hemisphere sea-level pressure data, 1899-present Plot NCEP Reanalysis data: 6-Hourly mean and anomaly composites Plot NCEP Reanalysis data: Daily mean and anomaly composites Plot NCEP Reanalysis data: Monthly/Seasonal mean and anomaly composites Plot NCEP Reanalysis data: Monthly/Seasonal linear correlations with climate indices or your own data Plot US Climate data: Monthly/Seasonal linear correlations with climate indices or your own data Download monthly atmospheric and oceanic indices time series (e.g. PNS, ENSO, NAO, PDO, etc.) Create your own monthly/seasonal timeseries from US Climate data or NCEP reanalysis data Download TOMS satellite aerosol data from 1978-present Alaska Glacier Atlas NOAA HYSPLIT particle back-trajectory model: My Favorite Earth Science Teaching Links Google Earth: If you don't have this yet....DOWNLOAD IT NOW!! Google Earth Community: find Geology KMZ files - mostly in "Nature and Geography" Teaching with Google Earth: from Carleton College SERC Google Ocean: More cool KMZ files San Diego State Google Geology: Geology KMZ files for Google Earth GeoMapApp: free GIS interface with marine geology data and bathymetry - gotta check it out! Global paleogeography: really cool reconstructions of the Earth in the past NOAA Science on a Sphere: Awesome animations on a spherical globe...check it out! NASA Visible Earth: Amazing collection of satellite photos Carleton College Science Education Resource Center (SERC): Must see for all Earth Science teachers. So many great online resources for Earth Science education On the Cutting Edge: Professional Development for Geoscience Faculty from Carleton College Seismic Eruption: Download this really cool earthquake and volcano visualization program from Alan Jones' website. Tsunami generation animation 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami animation 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami animation2 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami animation3 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami before and after satellite photos Hurricane Katrina New Orleans flooding interactive graphic Levee formation animation Piston corer animation Multibeam bathymetry data collection animation Breakup of Pangea animation Breakup of Pangea animation2 Breakup of Gondwana animation Mesa College cool geology links