Data Centers
Links
Goddard Earth Sciences (GES) Data and Information Services Center (DISC) Distributed Active Archive
Provides data, data related services, and data support for global environmental change research and education. Funded through NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) as a source of information about the upper atmosphere, atmospheric dynamics, and the global biosphere.
USDOC/NOAA/NESDIS/National Geophysical Data Center
Manages environmental data in the fields of marine geology and geophysics, paleoclimatology, solar-terrestrial physics, solid earth geophysics, and glaciology (snow and ice).
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC)
Global-change data and information analysis for the US Department of Energy (DOE). Compiles and maintains extensive international data sets on atmospheric chemistry, particularly atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane & other radiatively active gases.
ORNL/NASA Biogeochemical Dynamics Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC)
Source for biogeochemical and ecological data for use in studying environmental processes. Data were collected on the ground, from aircraft, and by satellite, or generated by computer models.
Unidata Internet Data Distribution (IDD)
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/idd/index.html
Community of over 130 universities building a system for disseminating near real-time earth observations via the Internet. The Unidata IDD is designed so a university can request that certain data sets be delivered to computers at their site as soon as they are available from the observing system.
High-resolution Shoreline Database
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/gshhs.html
Information on digital coastline and shorelines data available from various sources. Provided by the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) Marine Geology and Geophysics Division and collocated World Data Center A for Marine Geology and Geophysics.
NSSDC OMNIWeb
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/omniweb/ow.html
Data retrieval and analysis interface to NSSDC's OMNI data which consist of 1-hour-resolution "near-Earth" solar wind magnetic field and plasma data, energetic proton fluxes (1-60 MeV), and geomagnetic and solar activity indices. It allows you to select a subset from the available OMNI data to view or retrieve.
EOS-WEBSTER
http://eos-webster.sr.unh.edu/
Digital library of free, customized earth science data from The University of New Hampshire. Data can be FTPd or mailed on a customized CD.
British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC)
The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) designated data centre for the Atmospheric Sciences in the United Kingdom.