Climate Change & Global Warming | Reference Information & Resources

Climate Change / Global Warming | Information, Reference, & Resources

Acid Rain information at the EPA
Acid rain reference information including description, measurements, effects, and reduction.

Exploring Earth
Exploring Earth science with Earth news, visualizations and animations, and data centers

Gridded Population of the World (GPWv3) / Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP)
The human population, trends, hunger, poverty, and climate data presented in a common geo-referenced framework, produced by the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) of the Earth Institute at Columbia University

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a global scientific body for the assessment of climate change, established by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to provide our world with a clear scientific view on the current state of climate change and its global environmental and socio-economic consequences

NASA Global Change Master Directory
The Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) contains more than 25,000 Earth science data set and service descriptions covering subject areas within the Earth and environmental sciences. Hosted by the Goddard Space Flight Center.

National Climate Data Center (NCDC) | NOAA
The National Climate Data Center (NCDC) is the world's largest archive of weather data. NCDC produces numerous climate-related publications and responds to data requests from all over the world. NCDC also operates the World Data Center for Meteorology and the World Data Center for Paleoclimatology.

Met Office | Atmospheric science
The Met Office is involved in international research into what could happen under climate change, and the impacts on current and future generations as well as components of the weather, ocean and climate predictions.

Scientific American | Global Warming
All the latest developments in global warming including in-depth reporting, extensive articles, the latest headlines, videos, photos, and podcasts from the writers at Scientific American magazine

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Atlantica Undersea Colony
The site for Atlantica, home of the Atlantica I and II Expeditions that will establish the first human undersea colony

Related Publications

Arctic Studies Center Yearly Newsletter
Published since 1993, the Arctic Studies Center yearly newsletter is available free of charge. You can download recent copies of the newsletter online or contact the Arctic Studies Center for back issues and to join the mailing list.

NOAA Magazine
The online magazine of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). News, updates, and the latest information on climate and weather, storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, lighting, drought, and space weather

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Models & Prediction

Climate Change Prediction Program
Department of Energy program to advance the science of longer scale climate prediction

Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Models
Models of the climate system have been developed and used both to gain physical insight into major features of the behaviour of the climate system, and to produce climate projections for a range of assumptions about emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases

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