Our Go-To for Daily Weather and Climate Updates
- Weather Today: Our amalgamation of daily weather updates – check it out!! We use it every day. It includes maps from these sources (among others):
- National Drought Monitor: Current national map of drought conditions, with links to regional conditions
- Map of wildfire smoke (vertically integrated smoke)
- National Hurricane Center
- Snow in the Northeast: Current snow depth, daily snowfall, and projected snowfall in the Northeast
- Arctic Sea Ice recent news and analysis
- Greenland Today: daily data, images, maps, news, and analysis
- RealClimate.org: “Climate science from climate scientists”. And they really are. These articles are all by very well respected scientists in the field of climate and paleoclimate, and they have great discussions about the topics of the day.
- Earth.nullschool.net: A beautiful, interactive, animated map of the earth showing current and past (2013-present) weather conditions for a variety of variables and heights
- Windy.com: An interactive, animated map of the earth showing current and future weather conditions under a variety of forecast models
Climate Change Info Links
1. IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (Expected 2022)
- Working Group 1: “The Physical Science Basis”: Detailed info and climate change data and models
- IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (2013)
- Synthesis Report: Distilled version for those looking for a quick understanding of where we stand
- Working Group 1: “The Physical Science Basis”: Detailed info and climate change data and models
- Working Group 2: “Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability”: Detailed info on impacts of climate change
- Working Group 3: “Mitigation of Climate Change”: Detailed look on what we can do about it
2. U.S. Fourth National Climate Assessment (2017-2018) (Fifth Assessment expected 2023)
- National Climate Assessment Volume 1: Climate Science Special Report (2017)
- National Climate Assessment Volume 2: Impacts, Risks and Adaptation to Climate Change in the USA (2018)
3. Arctic Climate Assessments
- Arctic Climate Change Update 2021 Summary
- Arctic Ocean Acidification (2018)
- Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA) (2017)
4. New England Climate Change Assessments/Reports (many from Climate Solutions New England and Dr. Cam Wake)
- Climate Ready Boston: Reports and maps of impacts from temperature and sea level rise
- Preparing New Hampshire for Projected Storm Surge, Sea-Level Rise, and Extreme Precipitation (2016)
- Massachusetts Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Viewer
- Climate Change and Human Health in New Hampshire (2015)
- Sea-Level Rise, Storm Surges, and Extreme Precipitation in Coastal New Hampshire (2015)
- Climate Change in Northern New Hampshire: Past, Present and Future (2014)
- Climate Change in Southern New Hampshire: Past, Present and Future (2014)
- Sea Level Rise: Understanding and Applying Trends and Future Scenaios for Analysis and Planning (Massachusetts; 2013)
- Climate Impacts on the Winter Tourism Economy of the United States (2012)
- Trends in Wintertime Climate in the Northeast United States (2008)
5. 54 Sources for Climate Change News: From George Washington University
Climate Data Links
- The Climate Reanalyzer: UMaine’s beautiful site for reanalysis data, model results, and instrumental data – by friend of the lab Dr. Sean Birkel
- World Data Center for Paleoclimatology: Downloadable raw data from paleoclimate studies of all types
- Ice Core Gateway: Downloadable raw data from many ice cores collected all over the globe
- National Snow and Ice Data Center: University of Colorado database of snow and ice data and information
- Daily Arctic Sea Ice Index and Maps
- Arctic Sea Ice recent news and analysis
- Greenland Today: daily data, images, maps, news, and analysis
- NOAA Climate Prediction Center
- NOAA National Climate Data Center
- Climate Monitoring: Detailed monthly reports on global climate
- Temperature and Precipitation Maps: Rankings of state, regional, and national temp and precip maps back to 2001
- US Climate at a Glance: See maps and create your own plots of national, regional, and state temperature and precipitation over the past 100 years
- Plot NCEP Reanalysis data (1948 – present)
- 6-Hourly mean and anomaly composites
- Daily mean and anomaly composites
- Monthly/Seasonal mean and anomaly composites
- Monthly/Seasonal linear correlations with climate indices or your own data
- Plot NOAA-CIRES-DOE 20th Century Reanalysis v3 data (1836-2015)
- Other reanalysis plotting tools
- Create animations of reanalysis data
- Web-based Reanalysis Intercomparison Tool (WRIT): compare reanalysis datasets!
- Plot US Climate data: Monthly/Seasonal linear correlations with climate indices or your own data
- Download monthly atmospheric and oceanic indices time series (e.g. PNS, ENSO, NAO, PDO, etc.)
- Create your own monthly/seasonal timeseries from US Climate data or NCEP reanalysis data
- Alaska Glacier Atlas
- NOAA HYSPLIT particle back-trajectory model
Earth Science Teaching Links
- Google Earth
- Teaching with Google Earth: from Carleton College SERC
- Google Ocean: More cool KMZ files
- GeoMapApp: free GIS interface with marine geology data and bathymetry
- NOAA Science on a Sphere: Awesome animations on a spherical globe
- NASA Visible Earth: Amazing collection of satellite photos
- Carleton College Science Education Resource Center (SERC): Must see for all Earth Science teachers. So many great online resources for Earth Science education
- On the Cutting Edge: Professional Development for Geoscience Faculty from Carleton College
- Some fundamentals of the water cycle
- CLEAN Climate and Energy educational research collection
- NOAA StoryMap Gallery: A fantastic collection of interactive, educational online ArcGIS map products