Climate/Earth System Models:
- NCAR’s Community Earth System Model (CESM): http://www.cesm.ucar.edu/
- Princeton GFDL: https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/earth-system-model/
Computational Fluid Dynamics:
- CFD Online: https://www.cfd-online.com/
Remote Sensing:
- USGS Earth Explorer – Satellite images, aerial photos, maps, and much more
Now includes on-demand ASTER products and Landsat Surface Reflecatance - GloVIS – USGS Global Visualization Viewer, a primary site for Landsat and ASTER
- Reverb | Echo – Access most NASA data – MODIS Land products, ASTER, AVHRR, etc
- NASA Earthdata Search – Nice site to search for ASTER data
- USGS Satellite Image Catalog – A list of the types of satellite images offered by the USGS
With product descriptions and links to get the data - LandsatLook Viewer – USGS browse for Landsat images from Jan.1999 to present – JPEG images only
- WELD – Web Enabled Landsat Data – USGS annual, seasonal and monthly composites of Landsat data from January 2003 to present – US only
- NASA MODIS home page – The place to start for MODIS
- MODIS Level 1 and Atmosphere Archive – MODIS Daily scenes and Atmosphere products
- MODIS Data Subsets – MODIS Land Product time-series subsets – see the FAQ
- NASA AppEEARS – Easily extract MODIS and Landsat WELD point sample data
- MODIS Reprojection Tool on the Web – Great way to get a limited number of MODIS tiles
- USGS LP DAAC E-Learning – Very good tutorials, presentations, and webinars on data availability and access!
- Suomi and VIIRS Data Access – NOAA CLASS data server (register and view the tutorial)
- NOAA DMSP and VIIRS Nighttime Lights – NOAA NCEI
- NOAA VIIRS Monthly Nighttime Lights – NOAA NCEI
- SMAP – Soil Moisture Active Passive
- G-LiHT – Goddard’s LiDAR, Hyperspectral & Thermal Imager
- Declassified satellite imagery – USGS site for Corona and other images
- Corona Atlas of the Middle East – U. of Arkansas web-based image atlas
- The National Map -USGS site for National Elevation Data (NED), NAIP high res aerial photography, Landcover and other data
- USGS Data in Action – Many interesting projects using satellite images
- NASA Sensing Our Planet – NASA-Featured research projects from 2015
- Alaska Satellite Facility – SAR and ALOS data from the U. of Alaska Fairbanks
- USGS EROS home page – Earth Resources Observation Systems Data Center
- Goddard Earth Sciences – Data and Information Services Center
- Global Land Cover Facility – Many free ortho-rectified Landsat MSS, TM, and ETM scenes available
- Landsat Ground Stations
Climate & Weather Data:
- NCDC – National Climatic Data Center
- EPA Climate Change Indicators
- NOAA PSD
- IRI Climate Data Library from Columbia University – a collection of data and interactive climate maps
- Weather Soundings from U. of Wyoming – Global daily soundings archived
- NOAA NARR – North American Regional Reanalysis
- Natural Resources Conservation Service – USDA
- NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory
- Weather Satellite Imagery on the Internet
- Hourly U.S. Weather Statistics
- NOAA Paleoclimatology
- Tropical Cyclone Homepage – U. of Wisconsin
- National Snow and Ice Data Center – Data visualizations
- Global average CO2 values – NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory
- Soil Moisture CCI Project – ESA Soil Moisture Essential Climate Variable data
- Soil Moisture Active Passive – NASA Soil Moisture project
- CIMSS Blog – Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
- Hydrology from Space – Lake levels around the world
- Tides Online – NOAA water level and weather information
- Tide Prediction Server – tide tables for almost any where at any time
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