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Useful links for climate research

A smattering of websites I’ve found useful..

Climate Models

Community Climate Model 3	http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cms/ccm3/
Community Climate System Model	http://www.ccsm.ucar.edu/

Data manipulation/ visualization

CCSM AMWG Diagnostics Package	http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cms/diagnostics/index.html
Dan Vimont’s Matlab Llibraries	http://www.aos.wisc.edu/~dvimont/matlab/
GrADS	http://grads.iges.org/grads/head.html
NCAR Command Language	http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/
NCO Users guide	http://nco.sourceforge.net/nco.html
NETCDF utlilties	http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/products/vis/data/netcdf/GFDL_VG_NetCDF_Utils.html

Data / Model output sites

IRI climate data library (excellent!!) & Jennie’s Ingrid examples	http://ingrid.ldeo.columbia.edu/ http://rainbow.ldeo.columbia.edu/%7Ejennie/Ingrid/
JISAO climate data archive	http://www.jisao.washington.edu/data/
PCMDI IPCC model output archive	http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov/ipcc/about_ipcc.php
Paleoclimate Model Intercomparison Project 2	http://www-lsce.cea.fr/pmip2/

Global Climate Change

BBC Climate change website	http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2004/climate_change/default.stm
RealClimate	http://www.realclimate.org/

Journal articles

AGU publications	http://www.agu.org/pubs/
AMS Journals Online	http://ams.allenpress.com/perlserv/?request=index-html
Google Scholar	http://scholar.google.com/
ISI Web of Knowledge	http://isi02.isiknowledge.com/portal.cgi?DestApp=WOS&Func=Frame
Nature	http://www.nature.com/index.html
Science	http://www.sciencemag.org/

Visualizations

“Global Climate Animations”, U Oregon Geography dept.	http://geography.uoregon.edu/envchange/clim_animations/
NCAR visualizations	http://www.vets.ucar.edu/vg/index.shtml