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Argo
A global array of 3,000 free-drifting profiling floats that measures the temperature and salinity of the upper 2000 m of the ocean allowing continuous monitoring of the temperature, salinity, and velocity of the upper ocean with all data being relayed and made publicly available within hours after collection

Atmospheric Deposition Measurement & Analysis: Chesapeake Bay
Repository for atmospheric deposition monitoring program information and data, with the focus on the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

Atmospheric Science Data Center
NASA Langley atmospheric science data center (Distributed Active Archive Center).

British Atmospheric Data Center (BADC)
The British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC) is the Natural Environment Research Council's (NERC) Designated Data Centre for the Atmospheric Sciences

CEDAR at UCAR
Coupling, Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions - long term archive for observations and models of the Earth's upper atmosphere and geophysical indices and parameters needed to interpret them.

Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs)
The Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) have been selected by NASA to process, archive and distribute Earth Observing System (EOS) and related data. They also provide a full range of support to global change researchers.

EOS-WEBSTER
Pprovides free, customized Earth Science data. Our data holdings can be searched spatially, temporally, or by keyword, freetext, or collection name

Geoscience Data Repository: Natural Resources Canada
Collection of Earth Sciences Sector geoscience databases that is managed and accessed by a series of Information Services (GDRIS)

Giovanni | Goddard Earth Sciences Data & Information Center
Giovanni is a web-based application developed by the Goddard Earth Sciences Data & Information Center that provides a simple and intuitive way to visualize, analyze, and access vast amounts of Earth science remote sensing data without having to download the data

Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE)
Practical demonstration of near-real-time, global ocean data assimilation that provides, regular, complete descriptions of the temperature, salinity and velocity structures of the ocean in support of operational oceanography, seasonal-to-decadal climate forecasts and analyses, and oceanographic research

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

Hadley Center Climate Change Projections
Climate change projection data, air temperature, precipitation, sea-level change, sea ice projections.

International Earth Rotation & Reference Systems Service
Primary objectives of the IERS are to serve the astronomical, geodetic and geophysical communities.

IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library
Contains over 300 datasets from a variety of earth science disciplines and climate-related topics

Inventory of Canadian Agri-Food Research
Database for agriculture and food research in Canada and a product of the Canadian Agri-Food Research Council (CARC)

Minerology Database
Individual mineral species descriptions, a comprehensive image library, crystallography, crystal structures, X-Ray powder diffraction, chemical composition, physical and optical properties, and classifications.

My NASA Data
Data on atmospheric and Earth science for educators and citizen scientists, including lesson plans and computer tools.

NASA Earth Observatory
Earth Observatory project at NASA featuring data & images

NASA Global Change Master Directory
Earth Science and Data Service at the Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA Imagery in Google Earth
The Goddard Earth Science (GES) Data & Information Service Center (DISC) makes data available on Google Earth to facilitate scientific research. Imagery includes two dimensional (2D) flat data and three dimensional (3D) vertical data. Integrated vertical data from A-Train constellation satellites CloudSat, CALIPSO (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation), and Aqua (mainly MODIS and AIRS products) and campaign missions into Google Earth expose cloud, aerosol, and H2O characteristics and atmospheric temperature profiles.

National Atmospheric Deposition Program Data
USGS acid rain and atmospheric deposition chemistry

National Diurnal Climatology
Diurnal climate cycles and data

National Climate Data Center: Climate Monitoring
Reports and products related to climate monitoring from the NCDC

National Climate Data Center
NCDC is the world's largest active archive of weather data. NCDC produces numerous climate publications and responds to data requests from all over the world. NCDC operates the World Data Center for Meteorology which is co-located at NCDC in Asheville, North Carolina, and the World Data Center for Paleoclimatology which is located in Boulder, Colorado.

National Climate Data Center: Storm Events
Search the NCDC Storm Event database to find various types of storms recorded in your county or use other selection criteria as desired

National Climate Data Center | Online Climate Data Directory
Surface and upper air data, marine data, and other climate related data sources

National Climate Data Cente | U.S. Hurricane Data
United States hurricane data, reports, and hurricane maps

National Coastal Data Development Center (NOAA)
Supporting ecosystem stewardship by providing access to the nation's coastal data resources.

National Environment Research Council (NERC): Data Centers
Numerous environmental data centers and access services

National Oceanographic Data Center
National Oceanographic Data Center Ocean Archive System for oceanic data

National Spatial Data Infrastructure
Established to reduce duplication of effort among agencies, improve quality and reduce costs related to geographic information, to make geographic data more accessible to the public, to increase the benefits of using available data, and to establish key partnerships with states, counties, cities, tribal nations, academia and the private sector to increase global data availability.

National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) offers more than 500 data products to researchers, commercial applications users, and others worldwide.

National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) is the largest central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information. NTIS provides businesses, universities, and the public with access to approximately 3 million publications covering over 350 subject areas. The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) is part of the US Department of Commerce.

NNDC Climate Data Online
Component of the NESDIS National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service / National Climate Center

NODC World Data Center for Oceanography
Component of a global network of discipline subcenters that facilitate international exchange of scientific data.

PANGAEA
Publishing network and search tool for Geoscientific and environmental data.

Space Weather Prediction Center | NOAA
SWPC provides real-time monitoring and forecasting of solar and geophysical events which impact satellites, power grids, communications, navigation, and other technological systems. SWPC is also the primary warning center for the International Space Environment Service

Unidata: Internet Data Distribution
The Unidata community of over 160 universities is building a system for disseminating near real-time earth observations via the Internet.

Upper Ocean Thermal Center
UOTC's mission is to optimize NOAA's efforts in the collection, dissemination, analysis and modeling of global upper ocean thermal data for climate research and prediction

USGS Acid Rain, Atmospheric Deposition, Precipitation Chemistry
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is the lead federal agency for the monitoring of wet atmospheric deposition (chemical constituents deposited from the atmosphere via rain, sleet, and snow) in the United States.

United States Geological Survey (USGS) Mineral Data & Statistics
Statistics and information on the worldwide supply of, demand for, and flow of minerals and materials essential to the U.S. economy, the national security, and protection of the environment

USGS | Maps, Imagery, and Publications
Providing maps, aerial and satellite imagery, publications, and data from the U.S. Geological Survey.

USGS Photographic Library
This site is designed to provide free viewing and downloading of the entire USGS photographic collection

Warehouse Inventory Search Tool (WIST)
A client for searching and ordering earth science data from various NASA, international, and affiliated centers

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