Overview
Climate encompasses the statistics of temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, rainfall, atmospheric particle count, and numerous other meteorological elements in a given region over long periods of time. Climate can be contrasted to weather, which is the present condition of these same elements over periods up to two weeks.
The climate collections project includes data sets containing measured and modeled values for variables such as temperature, precipitation, humidity, radiation, wind velocity, and cloud cover and include station measurements as well as gridded mean values.The ORNL DAAC Climate Collections Data archive includes 10 data products from the following categories:
- Mean Monthly Climatology
- Historical Climatology
- Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition
- Monthly Climatology and Precipitation
- Global Nitrogen Cycles
Climate Collections Resources
The following Climate Collections resources are maintained by the ORNL DAAC:
Get Climate Collections Data
Find and order data sets:
- See list of data sets and download data
- Browse Climate Collections Data Holdings by selected attributes
- Retrieve Climate Collections data by FTP browse
- Search Climate Collections Metadata (Mercury)
Related Climate Collections Links
Information related to the Climate Collections can be found at the following links:
- National Climatic Data Center
- US Historical Climatology Network (US HCN)
- Global Climate Animations, University of Oregon
- NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory, Climate Analysis Branch