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| ds010.0 | Daily Northern Hemisphere Sea Level Pressure Grids, continuing from 1899 |
| ds010.1 | Monthly Northern Hemisphere Sea-Level Pressure Grids, continuing from 1899 |
| ds012.0 | U.S.S.R. Northern Hemisphere Daily Sea-Level Pressure Grids for 1880 to 1979 |
| ds020.1 | U.K. Northern Hemisphere Sea-Level Pressure and 500mb Height Grids for 1944Dec to 1946Dec |
| ds062.0 | Daily Northern Hemisphere 47x51 Forecast Grids, sporadically between November 1967 and December 1971 |
| ds067.0 | NCEP Stratospheric Analyses, daily 1981Jun-1997Mar |
| ds067.3 | NCEP Stratospheric Analyses, daily 1997May- continuing |
| ds082.0 | NCEP Global Tropospheric Analyses, daily 1976Jul-1997Apr12 |
| ds083.0 | NCEP FNL Global Tropospheric Analyses, 2.5x2.5, daily 1997Apr- continuing |
| ds083.2 | NCEP FNL Global Tropospheric Analyses, 1x1, daily 1999Jul30- present |
| ds084.0 | NMC MRF Global 10 Day Forecasts, daily 1990Jan-1999Feb |
| ds084.2 | NCEP Global T80 Sigma Analyses, daily 1990Sep-1999Feb (from Kistler) |
| ds084.5 | NMC MRF Global Flux Fields, daily 1990Mar-1999Feb |
| ds085.0 | Monthly Northern Hemisphere 47x51 Tropospheric Analyses, continuing from January 1946 |
| ds085.1 | Monthly Northern Hemisphere 72x19 Tropospheric Analyses, continuing from April 1947 |
| ds090.0 | NCEP/NCAR Global Reanalysis Products, 1948-continuing |
| ds090.2 | NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis Monthly Mean Subsets (from DS090.0), 1948-continuing |
| ds092.0 | Monthly Reanalysis Comparison Grids |
| ds102.0 | NOTOS IGY Daily Southern Hemisphere Sea-Level Pressure and 500 mb Height Grids for 1957 June to 1958 December |
| ds104.0 | U.S. Navy Southern Hemisphere Daily Sea-Level Pressure Grids for 1974 August to 1983 June |
| ds108.3 | Australian Southern Hemisphere 500mb Heights, 1968Jun-1977Aug |
| ds110.1 | Global Ocean Wind Stress, climatology and monthly, by Trenberth et al. |
| ds117.0 | ERA40 Model Resolution Gridded Surface, Vertical Integrals, and Other Single Level Fields from ECMWF |
| ds117.1 | ERA40 Model Resolution Gridded Upper Air Analysis on Pressure Surfaces from ECMWF |
| ds117.2 | ERA40 Model Resolution Gridded Upper Air Analysis on Model Levels from ECMWF |
| ds117.3 | ERA40 Model Resolution Gridded Upper Air Analysis on Isentropic Surfaces from ECMWF |
| ds117.4 | ERA40 Model Resolution Gridded Upper Air Analysis on a Potential Vorticity Surface from ECMWF |
| ds117.5 | ERA40 Model Resolution Gridded Chemical Transport Modelling Fields on Model Levels from ECMWF |
| ds117.6 | ERA40 Model Resolution Gridded Radiative Tendency Fields on Model Levels from ECMWF |
| ds117.7 | ERA40 Model Resolution Gridded Net Tendency Fields on Model Levels from ECMWF |
| ds118.0 | ERA40 2.5 Degree Latitude-Longitude Gridded Surface and Single Level Analysis from ECMWF |
| ds118.1 | ERA40 2.5 Degree Latitude-Longitude Gridded Upper Air Analysis on Pressure Surfaces from ECMWF |
| ds119.0 | ERA40 Monthly Mean Model Resolution Gridded Surface Fields and Vertical Integrals from ECMWF |
| ds119.1 | ERA40 Monthly Mean Model Resolution Gridded Upper Air Analysis on Pressure Surfaces from ECMWF |
| ds119.2 | ERA40 Monthly Mean Model Resolution Gridded Upper Air Analysis on Model Levels from ECMWF |
| ds119.3 | ERA40 Monthly Mean Model Resolution Gridded Upper Air Analysis on Isentropic Surfaces from ECMWF |
| ds119.4 | ERA40 Model Resolution Monthly Mean Gridded Upper Air Analysis on a Potential Vorticity Surface from ECMWF |
| ds119.5 | ERA40 Model Resolution Gridded Variances and Covariances on Model Levels from ECMWF |
| ds120.0 | ERA40 Monthly Mean 2.5 Degree Latitude-Longitude Gridded Surface and Single Level Analysis from ECMWF |
| ds120.1 | ERA40 Monthly Mean 2.5 Degree Latitude-Longitude Gridded Upper Air Analysis on Pressure Surfaces from ECMWF |
| ds121.0 | ERA40 Model Resolution Gridded Surface and Single Level Forecast Fields from ECMWF |
| ds121.1 | ERA40 Model Resolution Gridded Upper Air Forecast Fields on Pressure Surfaces from ECMWF |
| ds122.0 | ERA40 Monthly Mean Model Resolution Gridded Surface and Single Level Forecast Fields from ECMWF |
| ds122.1 | ERA40 Monthly Mean Model Resolution Gridded Upper Air Forecast Fields on Pressure Surfaces from ECMWF |
| ds122.2 | ERA40 Monthly Mean Model Resolution Gridded Upper Air Forecast Fields on Model Levels from ECMWF |
| ds124.0 | ERA40 T85 6-hourly Surface Analysis and Surface Forecast Fields, created at NCAR |
| ds124.1 | ERA40 T85 Analysis Fields on Pressure Surfaces, created at NCAR |
| ds124.2 | ERA40 T85 Analysis Fields on Model Levels, created at NCAR |
| ds126.0 | ERA40 T85 Monthly Mean Surface Analysis and Surface Forecast Fields, created at NCAR |
| ds126.1 | ERA40 T85 Monthly Mean Analysis Fields on Pressure Surfaces, created at NCAR |
| ds126.2 | ERA40 T85 Monthly Mean Analysis Fields on Model Levels, created at NCAR |
| ds127.0 | ERA40 T106 6-hourly Surface Analysis and Surface Forecast Fields, created at NCAR |
| ds127.1 | ERA40 T106 Analysis Fields on Pressure Surfaces, created at NCAR |
| ds127.2 | ERA40 T106 Analysis Fields on Model Levels, created at NCAR |
| ds129.1 | ERA40 T106 Monthly Mean Analysis Fields on Pressure Surfaces, created at NCAR |
| ds188.0 | Labitzke's Daily Northern Hemisphere Stratospheric Analyses, 1964-1996 |
| ds195.0 | Daily Northern Hemisphere 47x51 Time Series Tropospheric Analyses, continuing from 1946 (but generally 1962) |
| ds195.1 | Daily Northern Hemisphere 72x19 Time Series Tropospheric Analyses, continuing from 1946 |
| ds195.5 | CDROMs of Northern Hemisphere Gridded Analyses, 1946-1994Dec |
| ds205.0 | Jenne's Monthly Northern and Southern Hemisphere Climatologies |
| ds206.0 | Van de Boogard's Climate Analyses, January and July |
| ds207.0 | Schutz and Gates (Rand) Global Climatology for January, April, July, and October |
| ds208.0 | Sadler's Tropical Wind Climatology, 1960-1973 |
| ds209.0 | Global Ocean Heat Flux and Wind Stress, climatology, OSU/CRI, by Esbensen et al. |
| ds209.2 | Bunker Climate Atlas of the North Atlantic Ocean |
| ds209.3 | Monthly Tropical Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Heat Budget, climatology, by Hastenrath |
| ds215.0 | Global Monthly Surface Temperature Anomalies (1856-2005), Precipitation (1900-1998), and Sea Level Pressure (1873-2000) from the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit |
| ds218.1 | Chellia's CAC Global Tropospheric Climate Diagnostics, 1979-1988 |
| ds222.0 | Arctic Surface Temperature Analyses, monthly, by Walsh |
| ds228.0 | Hulme's Gridded Global Land Precipitation Climatology |
| ds230.0 | FSU/COAPS Pacific and Indian Ocean Monthly Pseudo Wind Stress |
| ds231.0 | Tropical Pacific Wind Stress, climatology and monthly, by Wyrtki |
| ds232.0 | Global Ocean Wind Stress, climatology, by Hellerman et al. |
| ds232.1 | Climatological Mean Global Wind Stress and Curl, by Harrison et al. |
| ds232.2 | Scatterometer Climatology of Ocean Winds (SCOW), by Risien et al. |
| ds233.0 | Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice Concentration, monthly, Walsh et al. |
| ds233.5 | Arctic Sea Ice Thickness Climatology |
| ds234.0 | Antarctic Ice Analyses, monthly, by Ropelewski |
| ds235.0 | Northern Hemisphere Surface Pressure and Precipitation Grids from the U.S.S.R. |
| ds236.0 | Global Air Temperature and Precipitation Climatologies, by Willmott et al. |
| ds237.0 | Terrestrial Water Budget by Willmott and Rowe |
| ds239.0 | Rudolf's WCRP Global Preliminary Precipitation Analyses, monthly 1987-1988 |
| ds253.0 | Surface Water and Atmospheric CO2 and N2O Observations, from CDIAC |
| ds254.0 | Upper Ocean Nutrient Climatologies, by Louanchi and Najjar |
| ds255.0 | Hansen's NODC EPOCS Drifting Buoy Observations |
| ds256.1 | PMEL ATLAS/EPOCS/TOGA/TAO Moored Buoy Observations |
| ds257.0 | Canadian MEDS West and East Coast Temperature and Salinity Observations |
| ds258.0 | Scripps Pier and West Coast Seawater Temperature and Salinity Observations |
| ds258.2 | Western Arctic Ice Drift Stations, plus ships Maud and Fram |
| ds258.3 | Baltic Sea Marine Surface Observations |
| ds259.0 | Kleypas and Doney's Biogeochemical Properties in the Ocean Mixed Layer |
| ds260.0 | Global (60N-60S) Monthly Temperature Anomaly and Heat Storage, by White |
| ds260.1 | Objectively Analyzed Air-Sea Fluxes (OAFlux) For Global Oceans, By Lisan Yu et al. |
| ds260.2 | CORE.2 Global Air-Sea Flux Dataset |
| ds260.3 | NOCS Surface Flux Dataset v2.0 |
| ds270.0 | Washington and Thiel's Global Sea Surface Temperature Climatology |
| ds270.2 | Rand's Global Sea Surface Temperature and Ice Climatology |
| ds272.0 | Tropical Marine Climatic Atlas, by Sadler |
| ds273.0 | Fletcher's Sea Surface Analyses, monthly 1946-1978May |
| ds277.0 | NCEP Version 2.0 OI Global SST and NCDC Version 3.0 Extended Reconstructed SST Analyses |
| ds277.1 | NCEP ODAS Tropical Pacific Ocean Monthly Analyses |
| ds277.3 | Hadley Centre Global Sea Ice and Sea Surface Temperature (HadISST) |
| ds277.4 | Met Office Hadley Centre Mean Sea Level Pressure Dataset |
| ds277.5 | Extended Reconstructed Sea Level Pressure (ERSLP) |
| ds277.6 | NCEP Global Ocean Data Assimilation System (GODAS) |
| ds277.7 | NOAA Optimum Interpolation 1/4 Degree Daily Sea Surface Temperature Analysis |
| ds279.0 | Global Oceanographic Data Set Atlas, climatologies, by Samuels and Cox GFDL |
| ds279.1 | Tropical Pacific Ocean Sea Surface Salinity, Observations and Monthly Analyses |
| ds280.0 | Global Ocean Surface Currents, seasonal climatology, by Noo |
| ds283.0 | Hansen and Lebedeff's Global Surface Temperature Analyses, monthly 1880-1987 |
| ds285.0 | World Ocean Database and World Ocean Atlas |
| ds285.2 | Polar Science Center Hydrographic Climatology (PHC) |
| ds285.3 | Subsurface Temperature Analyses V6.5 by Ishii et al. |
| ds285.4 | The World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) Global Hydrographic Climatology |
| ds289.0 | Shea and Trenberth's Global Monthly Sea Surface Temperature Climatology |
| ds289.1 | Global Ocean Surface Temperature Atlas (GOSTA), and Land Surface Atlas |
| ds289.2 | Global Ocean Dimethylsulfide Observations and Climatology, by J. Kettle et al. |
| ds290.0 | Shea's Climatology Atlas, 1950-1979 (from DSS sets) |
| ds302.0 | Krishnamurti's Tropical 200mb Wind, summers 1967 and 1972 |
| ds314.0 | Global Meteorological Forcing Dataset for Land Surface Modeling |
| ds315.0 | Dewey and Heim's Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover, Weekly and Monthly 1966Nov-1991Dec |
| ds318.1 | GFDL Climate Model Outputs for Carbon Dioxide Studies |
| ds318.2 | UK Climate Model Outputs for Carbon Dioxide Studies |
| ds318.4 | GISS Climate Model Outputs for Carbon Dioxide Studies |
| ds318.5 | Oregon State University Climate Model Products for Carbon Dioxide Studies |
| ds318.6 | German Climate Model Outputs for Carbon Dioxide Studies |
| ds319.1 | Climate Model Products from the First-generation Global Coupled Model at the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis |
| ds319.2 | Climate Model Products from the United Kingdom's Hadley Centre for Climate Predition and Research (HCCPR) |
| ds319.3 | Climate Model Products from Germany's Deutches Klimarechenzentrum |
| ds330.2 | Near-Realtime Online THORPEX Interactive Grand Global Ensemble (TIGGE) Data |
| ds330.3 | TIGGE Tropical Cyclone Track Data |
| ds335.0 | Historical Unidata Internet Data Distribution (IDD) Gridded Model Data, December 2002 - current |
| ds336.0 | Historical Unidata Internet Data Distribution (IDD) Global Observational Data, May 2003 - current |
| ds337.0 | NCEP ADP Global Upper Air and Surface (PREPBUFR format) Observations, daily, April 2008 - Continuing |
| ds353.4 | NCEP ADP Global Upper Air Observation Subsets, January 1973 - continuing |
| ds358.0 | Ptarmigan Dropsondes (Arctic reconnaissance) for 1950-1961 |
| ds359.0 | NOAA Profiler Network (NPN) Observations, 1992May-continuing |
| ds383.0 | FSU's BOMEX Radiosonde Observations, daily 1969May-Sep |
| ds391.0 | Monthly Time Series Radiosondes, 1948 and continuing |
| ds394.1 | Brazilian Air Force Rawinsondes and Pibals, January 1950-November 1986 |
| ds430.0 | Global (but spotty non-U.S.) Monthly Mean Radiosonde Observations, 1950-continuing |
| ds435.0 | Monthly Mean Rawinsondes, from NCEP/NCAR Global Reanalysis, 1948-continuing |
| ds461.0 | NCEP ADP Global Surface Observations, daily, April 2000 - continuing |
| ds461.1 | NCEP ADP Eta/NAM Subset Surface Observations, daily, October 2000 - continuing |
| ds464.0 | NCEP ADP Global Surface Observations, February 1975 - continuing |
| ds469.0 | Canadian Surface Observations, daily 1963jan-1976dec, 95 stations |
| ds470.0 | NCDC TD14 and TD3280 U.S. Surface Airway Hourly Observations, 1938(1948)-2005 |
| ds476.0 | ERA-40 Global Land Surface Observation Feedback Record Reports |
| ds480.0 | India Precipitation, daily monthly 1901-1970 |
| ds480.1 | India Precipitation, daily 1975-1984 |
| ds481.0 | India Precipitation, weekly 1979-1985 |
| ds483.0 | Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia Surface Observations, daily and monthly 1951-1985 |
| ds485.0 | China Daily Precipitation and Monthly Soil Temperature, 1951-1991 |
| ds486.0 | Hourly Surface Observations for Brazilian Stations, 1951Jan-1980Dec |
| ds488.0 | NSIDC Daily Precipitation Sums at Coastal and Island Russian Arctic Stations, 1940-1990 |
| ds489.0 | NSIDC Meteorological Data from the Russian Arctic, 1961-2000 |
| ds490.0 | Garcia and Hamilton's Batavia (Djakarta) Pressure Observations, hourly 1866-1944 |
| ds501.0 | Boulder, CO Daily Temperature and Precipitation Weather Data for January 1897 to December 1977 |
| ds503.0 | NCDC SOLMET TD9724 Solar and Surface Observations, daily 1952-1976 |
| ds505.1 | NCDC TD3260 U.S. Cooperative 15 Minute Precipitation Data from 1971 |
| ds510.1 | NCDC U.S. Pan Evaporation, daily 1948-1978 |
| ds511.0 | CDIAC U.S. Historical Climatology Network (HCN) Daily Temperature, Precipitation, and Snow Observations for 1871-1997 |
| ds512.0 | CPC Global Summary of Day/Month Observations, 1979-continuing |
| ds513.0 | May's Global Surface Temperature Climate Analyses, daily 1979-1989Jun |
| ds515.0 | GATE ASECNA African Daily Precipitation for 1974 |
| ds517.0 | Northeast Brazil Precipitation, daily and monthly, 1904-1983 |
| ds518.0 | Japan Summary of Day, 1951-1989 |
| ds530.0 | ICOADS Auxiliary Datasets |
| ds539.0 | Ship observations from the Kobe Collection, Japan |
| ds540.0 | International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS Release 2.4), Global Marine Surface Observations |
| ds540.1 | International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS 2.4), Global Marine Monthly Summaries |
| ds540.9 | Ocean-atmosphere heat, momentum and freshwater flux, climatology, by Josey et al. |
| ds541.1 | Atlas of Surface Marine Data, climatology and monthly, by Da Silva and Young |
| ds541.2 | Global Ocean Precipitation Frequency and Characteristics, by Petty |
| ds541.3 | Global and North Atlantic Atlas of Monthly Ocean Waves, by Gulev et al. |
| ds543.0 | Joe Reid's (Scripps) NODC Deep Ocean Station Profiles |
| ds552.0 | Flow Rates of World Rivers (excluding former Soviet Union countries) |
| ds552.1 | Monthly Discharge Data for World Rivers (except former Soviet Union) |
| ds553.1 | Russian River Flow Data by Bodo |
| ds556.0 | Global Monthly Streamflow Time Series |
| ds564.0 | Global Historical Climatology Net (GHCN) Temperature, Precipitation, Pressure |
| ds565.1 | CDIAC U.S. Historical Sunshine Observations, 1891-1984 |
| ds570.0 | World Monthly Surface Station Climatology, 1738-cont |
| ds570.1 | World Weather Records, 1961-1970, 1971-1980, 1981-1990 |
| ds571.0 | Nicholson's Africa Precipitation, monthly 1901-1984 |
| ds572.0 | Harnack's South American Precipitation, monthly 1891-1983 |
| ds575.0 | India Monthly Station Precipitation, 1901-1970 |
| ds578.0 | China Monthly Station Precipitation, 1951-1980 |
| ds578.1 | China Monthly Station Precipitation and Temperature, 1951-1990 |
| ds578.2 | China Monthly Station Precipitation and Temperature, 1951-1984, for 50 stns |
| ds578.5 | Two Long-Term Instrumental Climatic Data Bases of the People's Republic of China |
| ds579.0 | Jones' Mongolia Summary of Month, 1936-1983 |
| ds580.0 | Malaysian ASEAN Climatic Atlas, through 1975 |
| ds582.0 | University of Wisconsin Antarctica Surface Observations, monthly 1980-1989 |
| ds607.0 | NCEP 51-year Hydrological Reanalysis |
| ds609.2 | GCIP NCEP Eta model output |
| ds625.0 | Japanese 25-year Reanalysis Project |
| ds625.1 | Japanese 25-year Reanalysis Project, Monthly Means |
| ds676.1 | Weickmann's NESS 5-day Mean Infrared Brightness Analyses, June 1974 to September 1986 |
| ds680.0 | VonderHaar's Nimbus-3 Minimum Albedo Analyses, 1969Apr-1970Feb |
| ds684.0 | Waliser and Zhou Satellite ECT-Corrected Monthly Tropical OLR and HRC Datasets |
| ds684.1 | Lucas and Waliser Satellite ECT-Corrected Daily, Pentad and Monthly Global OLR Datasets |
| ds709.0 | NASA SAMS Experiment Zonal Mean Methane and Nitrous Oxide, 1979-1981 |
| ds718.5 | CAC Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Monthly Means and Half Month Means, 1974Jun-1999Feb |
| ds728.0 | GPCP Combined Precipitation Data |
| ds728.1 | CPC Merged Analysis of Precipitation (CMAP) |
| ds740.1 | NOAA (ERL) Highly Reflective Cloud (HRC) Analyses, monthly 1971-1985 |
| ds741.0 | Bishop's Surface Solar Irradiance derived from ISCCP |
| ds744.4 | QSCAT/NCEP Blended Ocean Winds from Colorado Research Associates (version 5.0) |
| ds744.8 | QSCAT and ADEOS-II / NCEP Blended Ocean Winds (version 1.0) |
| ds750.1 | Rand's Global Elevation and Depth Data |
| ds754.0 | U.S. Navy 10-Minute Global Elevation and Geographic Characteristics |
| ds755.0 | U.S.A.F. Global 1-Degree and 5-Minute Average Elevation Data |
| ds756.1 | Defense Mapping Agency (DMA) U.S. 30-Second Elevations |
| ds757.0 | NMC Global Elevation Data, 2.5-Degree and Spectral |
| ds759.2 | TerrainBase, Global 5-Minute Ocean Depth and Land Elevation, from NGDC |
| ds759.3 | NGDC, ETOPO2 Global 2' Elevations |
| ds764.0 | The Global Distribution of Freshwater Wetlands, 1995 |
| ds765.0 | Matthew's GISS Global 1-Degree Vegetation, Land-use and Albedo Data |
| ds765.5 | Matthew's GSFC Global Wetlands and Methane Emission, 1-Degree |
| ds766.0 | Argonne 0.2-Degree Land Use and Deposition Data |
| ds767.0 | Wilson, Henderson-Sellers' 1-Degree Global Vegetation and Soils |
| ds768.0 | Cogley and Briggs' Global 1-Degree Precipitation Climatology and Topography |
| ds769.0 | Olson's CDIAC Major World Ecosystem Complexes Ranked by Carbon in Live Vegetation at 30-Minute Resolution |
| ds770.0 | Staub and Rosenweig's GISS Soil and Surface Slope, 1-Degree |
| ds800.0 | French EOLE Southern Hemisphere Balloon Observations, 1971Aug-1972 |
| ds805.0 | Ozone Data for the World, 1951May-1975December |
| ds805.1 | London's Global Total Ozone Analyses, monthly 1957Jul-1976 |
| ds808.0 | NSSFC Severe Local Storms Log (SELSLOG), 1955-1972Jun |
| ds816.0 | Batelle's Wind Energy Summaries, various stations |
| ds824.1 | Global Tropical Cyclone "Best Track" Position and Intensity Data |
| ds825.0 | Central England Temperatures, Manley, 1659-1995 |
| ds834.0 | NGDC Sunspots and 10.7cm Flux, 1749-1992Jun |
| ds862.0 | CLIMAP Climatic Boundary Conditions for 18,000 years before present |
| ds865.0 | Limpert's GSFC Precipitation, Temperature and Derived Soil Moisture Analyses |
| ds866.0 | GISS Global Methane and Livestock Distribution, 1-Degree |
| ds867.0 | Matthew's GISS Methane from Rice Cultivation |
| ds885.1 | NCDC TD9640 U.S. Palmer Drought Indices, continuing from 1895 |
| ds888.0 | World Weather Disk Data |
| ds900.0 | U.S. AFGWC Station (Surface and Upper Air) Library |
| ds900.1 | NCDC WBAN Station Library |
| ds901.0 | NCDC COOP Station Library for Summary of Day and Hourly Precipitation |
| ds904.0 | Various Station Libraries and Histories |
| ds905.0 | W.M.O. Station (Surface and Upper Air) Library (1995Nov) |
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