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Climate Indicators Data Access and Tools
NASA data measure the gases, carbon, energy and other components driving climate change and track their effects on the health of Earth’s environment and ecosystems. Our datasets and tools help researchers translate these interconnected data points into actionable knowledge.
Climate Indicators Data Tools
| Tool Sort descending | Description | Services | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Panoply | Panoply is a cross-platform application that plots geo-referenced and other arrays from netCDF, HDF, GRIB, and other datasets. | Visualization, Customization, Reformatting, Subsetting, Comparison | |
| SOTO | State of the Ocean (SOTO) is an interactive web-based tool that generates informative maps, animations, and plots that communicate and prove the discovery and analysis of the state of the oceans. | Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization | |
| VEDA | NASA's Visualization, Exploration, and Data Analysis (VEDA) project is an open-source science cyberinfrastructure for data processing, visualization, exploration, and geographic information systems (GIS) capabilities. | Access, Analysis, Processing, Visualization, Geoprocessing | |
| Worldview | Worldview offers the capability to interactively browse over 1,200 global, full-resolution satellite imagery layers and download the underlying data. | Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization, Access, Comparison, Monitoring Natural Events |
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Climate Indicators Datasets
| Dataset | Platforms | Instruments | Temporal Extent | Location Keywords | Spatial Extent | Data Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AirMOSS: L4 Modeled Volumetric Root Zone Soil Moisture, 2012-2015 | MODELS | Computer | 2012-09-21 to 2015-09-28 | N: 54.1254 S: 19.1247 E: -68.1237 W: -123.283 | netCDF-4 classic | |
| Alaska's Changing YK Delta: Knowledge Exchange between Elders and Geoscientists, 2018 | FIELD SURVEYS | VISUAL OBSERVATIONS | 2018-11-14 to 2018-11-16 | ALASKA | N: 63.4333 S: 59.5816 E: -159.478 W: -166.553 | |
| Annual wildland fire emissions (WFEIS v0.5) for Conterminous US and Alaska, 2001-2013 | Terra | MODIS | 2001-01-01 to 2013-12-31 | N: 71.41 S: 24.2 E: -65 W: -178.22 | GeoTIFF | |
| Arctic Vegetation Plots in Willow Communities, North Slope, Alaska, 1997 | FIELD INVESTIGATION, FIELD SURVEYS | BALANCE, PH METERS | 1997-07-09 to 1997-08-17 | N: 70.1878 S: 68.0331 E: -148.084 W: -149.851 | CSV | |
| ATom: Cloud and Coarse Aerosol Measurements from CAPS Instrument, 2016-2018 | NASA DC-8 | CAPS | 2016-07-29 to 2018-05-21 | GLOBAL | N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180 | ICARTT |
| ATom: Development of Cloud Indicator Algorithm Using Airborne Observations from CAPS | COMPUTERS | Computer | 2016-07-01 to 2019-09-30 | GLOBAL | N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180 | netCDF-4 |
| BOREAS AES Canadian Hourly and Daily Surface Meteorological Data, R1 | METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS | SNOW MEASURING ROD, TEMPERATURE LOGGERS, HUMIDITY SENSORS, RAIN GAUGES, WIND MONITOR, VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, BAROMETERS, ANEMOMETERS, DEWPOINT HYDROMETERS, DRY BULB THERMOMETERS, WET BULB THERMOMETERS | 1975-01-01 to 1997-01-01 | N: 57.35 S: 52.17 E: -97.83 W: -107.87 | Binary | |
| BOREAS HYD-01 Volumetric Soil Moisture Data | FIELD INVESTIGATION | NEUTRON PROBE, TDR | 1994-05-25 to 1997-06-26 | N: 55.93 S: 53.66 E: -98.29 W: -105.32 | ASCII | |
| CARVE: Daily Thaw State of Boreal and Arctic Alaska from AMSR-E and SSM/I, 2003-2014 | ADEOS-II, DMSP | AMSR-E, SSM/I | 2003-01-01 to 2014-12-31 | N: 74.399 S: 46.9946 E: -106.947 W: -179.999 | netCDF-4 | |
| CARVE: L1 In-situ Carbon and CH4 Flux and Meteorology at EC Towers, Alaska, 2011-2015 | GROUND STATIONS | ANEMOMETERS, THERMOMETERS, THERMOCOUPLES, LICOR GAS EXCHANGE SYSTEM | 2011-05-30 to 2016-01-07 | N: 71.3225 S: 68.4865 E: -155.748 W: -157.409 | CSV |
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