IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library

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IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library

Monitoring Global Climate

Forum
A place to share the thoughts and ideas.

Map Room
A collection of maps and analyses used to monitor climate conditions. Click on any of the maps to modify the figures or access the source data.

Climate Information Digest
A monthly publication covering global climate events, their impacts and the seasonal forecast.

ENSO Web
Information about El Niño-Southern Oscillation.

Climate Highlights
Relates headlines from the CID with likely future conditions.

The IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library contains over 300 datasets from a variety of earth science disciplines and climate-related topics. It is a powerful tool that offers the following capabilities at no cost to the user:

access any number of datasets;
create analyses of data ranging from simple averaging to more advanced EOF analyses;
monitor present climate conditions with maps and analyses in the Maproom;
create visual representations of data, including animations;
download data in a variety of commonly-used formats, including GIS-compatible formats.

Are you new to the world of climate data? Check out our Introduction to Climate Data page.

What's New
Feb 07	-	NCEP Climate Forecast System (CFS) seasonal prediction model retrospective ensemble forecast monthly and daily output added
Feb 07	-	CRUTEM3 and CRUTEM3v (variance adjusted) land air temperature anomalies and HadCRUT3 and HadCRUT3v (variance adjusted) combined land and marine surface temperature anomalies from the Hadley Centre and University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit added
Dec 06	-	Latest monthly and pentad CPC Merged Analysis of Precipitation (CMAP) datasets added (October 2006 releases)
Oct 06	-	USGS Global Land Cover Characteristics Data Base, Version 2.0 global data set added
Sep 06	-	New search utility for the Data Library Map Room, which is an intermediate step toward a full data search currently under development
Aug 06	-	Retrospective ensemble forecasts from the CCM3.6 and ECHAM4.5 models based on constructed analogue sea surface temperatures added
Aug 06	-	ECHAM4.5 85-member ensemble simulation runs added

Finding Data	Help Resources
Datasets by Category	Introductory Tutorial
Datasets by Source	Statistical Analysis Tutorial
Dataset Search	Ingrid Function Documentation
	Questions and Answers