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Climate models, weather data, oceanography, hydrology, atmospheric science, environmental monitoring
25,082 datasets
Shortandy Biological Station in Kazakhstan provides biomass measurements and climate data from a semiarid continental steppe. Measurements of above- and below-ground live and dead matter were taken biweekly to monthly during growing seasons from 1977 to 1980, with cumulative ANPP estimates. The site represents one of eight major Eurasian grassland types, with recorded annual mean temperatures of 27.7/-24.6°C and precipitation of 349.8 mm for 1976-1980.
Four Net Primary Productivity (NPP) and three climate data files document contrasting lowland rainforest ecosystems within Gunung Mulu National Park, Borneo, Malaysia. The NPP data includes estimates of above-ground biomass, annual litterfall, standing litter, and nutrient content for four distinct forest types along an elevation gradient from 50 to 300 meters. Climate records span from 1915 to 1990, providing long-term context for the primary productivity study conducted from June 1977 to September 1978.
53 sites worldwide provide compiled estimates of net primary productivity (NPP) for 34 grasslands, 14 tropical forests, and 5 boreal forests. The dataset includes site location, biome type, and climatic variables like mean annual precipitation and temperature, where available. NPP values, compiled from published literature, range from 35 to 3,538 grams per square meter per year.
From April 1968 to April 1969, monthly measurements of above-ground live biomass and dead matter were collected from two ungrazed seashore meadow plots in Tullgarnsnaset, Sweden. The dataset includes companion monthly and annual climate data from a nearby Stockholm weather station covering the period 1951-1990. Annual above-ground net primary production (ANPP) was estimated using multiple calculation methods, with mean estimates ranging from 324 to 430 grams per square meter per year.
Southern African sites in Botswana and South Africa were measured by the JPL PARABOLA III instrument during the SAFARI 2000 Dry Season Aircraft Campaign from August 25 to October 2, 2000. The dataset provides multi-angle sky and ground radiance measurements across eight spectral channels on a 5-degree spherical grid, collected to support the vicarious calibration of the Terra satellite's MISR instrument. Data files contain radiance counts for 8 bands per 3-minute collection, with auxiliary files for dark current and site-specific information.
February 24, 2000, through March 4, 2002, this dataset provides daily time series of total column precipitable water vapor over 17 AERONET sunphotometer sites in southern Africa. The MODIS Atmosphere Group at NASA generated these statistics by extracting pixel values from the MOD05_L2 product within a 50 x 50 km box centered on each site. Data is stored in CSV files, with separate files per site per year for infrared and near-infrared retrieval algorithms.
SMAP satellite data, launched January 31, 2015, provides global sea surface salinity measurements with an approximate 40 km resolution. The validated Level 2C product includes derived salinity with uncertainty, brightness temperatures, collocated wind speed, and quality flags, with files generated for each 98-minute orbit. This version 6.0 dataset, ongoing since April 1, 2015, addresses biases from earlier mission phases and uses WindSat data for corrections following a scatterometer malfunction in July 2015.
Southern Africa's freshwater wetlands are mapped in this 1-degree resolution geospatial dataset. It is a regional subset of a global database, synthesized from Aselman and Crutzen's 1989 wetlands data and Klinger's 1995 Political Alaska data set, interpolated to a standard grid. The dataset was created to support the specification of wetlands in global climate models.
NASA's MODIS Atmosphere Products Subset Statistics (MAPSS) dataset provides daily time series of aerosol and cloud parameters from the MOD04_L2 product. Data is extracted for 17 AERONET sunphotometer sites in southern Africa from February 26, 2000, through December 31, 2001. The statistics are derived from a 50 x 50 km box centered on each site and include variables such as cloud fraction, aerosol optical depth, and particle effective radius.
SAFARI 2000 project data from NASA provides 30-minute averaged measurements of carbon dioxide, water vapor, and energy fluxes from a meteorological tower in a semi-arid savanna near Maun, Botswana, during 2000. The dataset captures seasonal variation across wet and dry periods and includes parameters like air temperature, radiation, soil moisture, and precipitation. Companion files offer long-term climatic data for the Maun area.
SoilSCAPE data provides high-resolution in-situ soil moisture and temperature measurements from over 200 wireless sensor nodes across four U.S. states. Collected at 20-minute intervals since August 2011, the network supports validation of NASA's AirMOSS and SMAP satellite missions. The dataset, managed by NASA, offers profiles at multiple depths and continues to be updated from eight active sites.
NASA-supported research collected water surface elevation and quality data at 120 sites within Canada's Peace-Athabasca Delta, a Ramsar and UNESCO World Heritage wetland, during the summers of 2006 and 2007. The dataset was created to study hydrologic recharge processes in low-relief environments and to provide ground-based validation for satellite observations of inundation and sediment transport. It consists of four comma-delimited ASCII files containing site location, measurement, and ancillary parameter data.
Australian Ocean Data Network hosts a research report testing a model for stratiform copper deposit genesis in modern environments. The study investigates interactions between saline continental redbed groundwaters and Holocene carbonate complexes on the northeastern shore of Spencer Gulf, South Australia. It examines how groundwater pH, Eh, and salinity mobilize and transport metals like Fe, Mn, Cu, Pb, and Zn.
R/V Rig Seismic conducted Bureau of Mineral Resources research cruise 78 from March 24 to April 18, 1988. The cruise collected 1750 km of multichannel seismic data on the west Tasmanian margin and 265 km off southeast Tasmania, alongside geological sampling at 49 stations. The work by the Australian Ocean Data Network aims to define basin geology, rifting history, stratigraphy, and petroleum potential.
VEMAP Phase I provides a foundational climate dataset for the conterminous United States, created for ecosystem model intercomparison. It includes long-term monthly, seasonal, and annual climatological means for temperature, precipitation, solar radiation, humidity, and wind speed, as well as a synthetic daily 'characteristic year' that preserves realistic weather variances. The data supports analysis of biogeochemical and biogeographical responses to environmental drivers like climate change and elevated CO2.
The Australian Ocean Data Network provides data on Cretaceous sedimentary rocks underlying 1,500,000 km² of eastern Australia. The description details depositional environments from freshwater to marine, sequences derived from different sources, and transgressive-regressive cycles over about 20 million years. The dataset was last updated on 2026-06 04.
Australian Ocean Data Network hosts a scientific paper analyzing seismic refraction and gravity measurements across Australia and surrounding marine areas. The study infers crustal and upper mantle densities to investigate mass compensation and structural variations. The dataset, last updated in June 2026, is available in PDF and HTML formats.
Gingin, Western Australia, hosts a flux tower measuring the exchange of energy and mass between a natural woodland and the atmosphere. The dataset, processed with PyFluxPro v3.4.23, provides gap-filled Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE) partitioned into Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) and Ecosystem Respiration (ER). It was established in June 2011 by CSIRO and is now managed by Edith Cowan University.
Calcareous nannofossils, foraminiferids, and macrofossils were collected from eight dredge hauls on seamounts south of Christmas Island. The samples, gathered during BMR cruise 107, represent ages from the Late Cretaceous to the Holocene. The data is hosted by the Australian Ocean Data Network.
The Australian Geological Survey Organisation collected sediment cores from the Exmouth Plateau, Perth Basin, and Ceduna Terrace. Data from seven cores in the EP/PB region show sediment accumulation rates during the Last Glacial Maximum were 1.5-2 times higher than during the Holocene. Benthic foraminiferal stable isotope data from 14 cores provide records of intermediate and deep water chemistry changes since the LGM.