Environmental and Socio-economic Datasets

• NCAR Climate Data as KML
  Description

  The Community Climate System Model (CCSM) was developed by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) for the 4th Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).  These model outputs are available for download as KML files.

• Weather Forecast data
  Description

  UNIDATA has many model, radar, and station datasets available through their THREDDS data server

• Geospatial data.gov
  Description

  Data.govportal provides access to data around the world. Data varies from resource management datasets to transportation datasets.

• NOAA Satellite and Information Service
  Description

  The NOAA Satellite and Information Service website provides the following datasets:

  • Fire,
  • Imagery,
  • Precipitation,
  • Snow and Ice,
  • Tropical Products,
  • Volcano, and
  • Winds
• NCGIA Public Domain Datasets
  Description

  The National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis have compiled useful datasets:

  • Global Demographic and
  • Snow's Cholera Map

Land Cover / Land Use Datasets

• Global 2000 Landcover
  Description

  Developed in collaboration with over 30 research teams. This dataset was chosen as the dataset for the Millenium Ecosystems Assessment.

• World Wildlife Fund
  Description

  Provides datasets that they have created and/or improved, such as:

  • Terrestrial Ecoregions
  • Global lakes and wetlands database
• The Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE)
  Description

  Distributes many different types of land use / land cover datasets such as:

  • Major Crops
  • Historical Croplands
  • Global Potential Vegetation Dataset
  • LBA Hydra Dataset
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dataset
• Fire Mapping
  Description

  Displays active fires by MODIS Rapid Response System.