Climate Change

Conferences
Data
Data-Regional
Education
Models

Conferences:

www.climate2011.net	Worldwide Online Climate Conference CLIMATE 2011/KLIMA 2011 is being organized in cooperation with UNEP, IPCC, WMO, the Sahara and Sahel Observatory and further world bodies. Building on the success of the previous online conferences in 2008, 2009 and 2010 with many million visitors and hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific papers, this year's interactive, free of charge online event will specifically focus on “Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management”. Nov 7-11, 2011.

Data:
www.ncdc.noaa.gov	National Climatic Data Center World Data Center for Paleoclimatology provides data about past climate and environment derived from a diverse range of proxies such as tree rings and ice cores. The proxies are listed by data disciplines. These links provide access to descriptive information and explanatory notes, links to maps, searches, visualizations, and more.
gcmd.nasa.gov	NASA's Global Change Master Directory Learning Center is the place to find data and information about global environmental change. NASA's GCMD is an online catalog of data sets covering just about every scientific area of global change research.
www.ncdc.noaa.gov	NOAA's Paleoclimatology Program provides the paleoclimate data and information needed to understand and model interannual to centennial scale environmental change. This site was created to introduce the topic of global warming, and to show how paleoclimate data provide a long baseline of past change.
www.ldeo.columbia.edu	Cooperative Institute for Climate Applications and Research evaluates, understands, and predicts climate variability and change through the collection and analysis of modern and paleoclimate data and the use of Earth System models. We provide climate information to society through education and the development of applications and tools for assessing climate-related risks. Columbia University.
wikiadapt.org	WikiADAPT is a collaborative project enhancing the knowledge base of the climate adaptation community.
www.realclimate.org	Wiki supplement to the RealClimate.org website.
www.climate.unibe.ch	University of Bern "High-resolution carbon dioxide concentration record 650,000–800,000 years before present" Reports that Greenhouse gases are at highest levels in the atmosphere than at any time in at least 800,000 years. Today carbon dioxide is 28 percent and methane 124 percent higher than at any time during the last 800,000 years..." PDF.
www.exploratorium.edu	The Exploratorium. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation. Explore scientific data relating to the atmosphere, the oceans, the areas covered by ice and snow, and the living organisms in all these domains. ***
eos-webster.sr.unh.edu	EOS-Webster- University of New Hampshire Climate Change Data/Resources. Free, customized Earth Science data.
data.giss.nasa.gov	GISS Surface Temperature Analysis. Global Temperature Trends: 2008 Annual Summation. NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

Data-Regional:
www.northeastclimateimpacts.org	Northeast Climate Database provides registered users with free access to most of the climate data generated for the NECIA project, including projected changes this century in temperature, precipitation, relative humidity, snow cover, and more that can be expected in the Northeast under higher and lower emission scenarios.
iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu	North American Drought Atlas is a history of Meteorological Drought Reconstructed from 835 Tree-Ring Chronologies. Columbia University.
sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu	Population, Landscape, and Climate Estimates data set, PLACE II estimates the number of people (head counts and percentages) and the land area (square kilometers and percentages) represented within each class of a number of demographic, physical, biological, and climatic variables for each country around the world, for the years 1990 and 2000. These variables include biomes, climate zones, coastal proximity zones, elevation zones, and population density zones. Columbia University.

Education:
www.epa.gov	Environmental Protection Agency. Climate Change Portal. "Comprehensive information on the issue of climate change in a way that is accessible and meaningful to all parts of society – communities, individuals, business, states and localities, and governments."
www.ncdc.noaa.gov	NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, data and Information service. A Paleo Perspective on Global Warming. Good history of past climate change.
www.whrc.org	Woods Hole Research Center. A beginner's guide to understanding the issue of global warming. Meeting the Climate-Change Challenge. PowerPoint presentation given in Woods Hole, Nov. 3, 2006.
www.ipcc.ch	Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Frequently asked questions.
www.climatechangeeducation.org	Climate Change Education. Created by volunteers: docents, scientists, teachers, students, artists.... Links to museums, lesson plans, and other resources relating to climate change.
www.exploratorium.edu	Exploratorium's Global Climate Change site is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation. At this Web site, you can explore scientific data relating to the atmosphere, the oceans, the poles, and the living organisms in all these realms. You’ll also get a sense of how scientists study natural phenomena, how researchers gather evidence, test theories, and come to conclusions.
www.teachearth.com	Teach Earth. Earth System Science, a product of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies and sponsored by NASA's Earth Science Enterprise. Discover your state's Earth science experts, resources, and special programs. Find quick links to classroom-ready activities on the Web, organized alphabetically or by subject. Search their databases for programs and resources. Not up to date.
learningfundamentals.com.au	Energy Change and Climate Change Tips mind-charts. Learning Fundamentals. These are great. Check them out.

Models:
downloads.climatescience.gov	Climate Science. Climate Models: Frequently asked questions about computer climate models and their uses, strengths and limitations. Published in 2008. 4 pages. PDF.
globalchange.mit.edu/igsm/	MIT Integrated Global System Model analyzes interactions among humans and the climate system. Through an interacting set of computer models, the IGSM integrates climate science, technological change, economics, and social policy analysis into forecasts of the pressing issues in global change science and climate policy.
www.ldeo.columbia.edu	Cooperative Institute for Climate Applications and Research evaluates, understands, and predicts climate variability and change through the collection and analysis of modern and paleoclimate data and the use of Earth System models. We provide climate information to society through education and the development of applications and tools for assessing climate-related risks. Columbia University.
sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu	Climate Change Integrated Assessment Modeling: The Model Visualization and Analysis Service. SEDAC, the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN).

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