This page is intended to provide links and further information on datasets and data sources used in the State of the Climate report. These data are from a variety of different countries and organizations. This page will be updated periodically as data sets become available. If you are a contributor to the State of the Climate report and wish to have your data included on this web site, it must be publicly available, and you should send the data, or a URL link to the data to EditorSOC.NCDC@noaa.gov.

• CAMS_OPI (merged in situ [CAMS] and satellite [OPI] data) 1979-present
• Carbon Dioxide Concentration data
• GHCN 1880 - present (1961 - 90 base period mean for anomalies)
• Ocean Carbon data
• Ocean currents data
• UK Met Office Global SST and Sea Ice data set 1871 - recent
• Smith & Reynolds global temperature anomaly data 1880 - present
• Stratospheric Ozone sounding data 1979 - present
• Total Stratospheric Ozone data (Dobson Spectrophotometer) 1962 - present
• Atmospheric Methane and other trace gas data sets - various periods of record
• USHCN 1900 (most stations) - present

• MSU - UAH 1979 - present
• MSU - RSS 1979 - present
• CAMS_OPI (merged in situ [CAMS] and satellite [OPI] data) 1979-present
• Sea Level data
• Stratospheric Ozone (SBUV/2) 1979-present
• MODIS Snow Cover data
• TRMM 1995 - present

• NOAA National Climatic Data Center
• NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center
• NOAA National Buoy Data Center
• National Snow and Ice Data Center
• DOE Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
• British Atmospheric Data Centre
• NASA Global Change Master Directory - Data search

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