Weather and Climate Data Downloads

National Weather Service

• Shapefiles: http://www.weather.gov/gis/shapepage.htm
• Precip: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ridge2/RFC_Precip/  grid with about 4 km resolution

NDFD--NWS National Digital Forecast DataBase

• Home Page: http://ndfd.weather.gov/technical.htm
• Using in a GIS (floating point grids and shapfiles):
  •  https://www.weather.gov/mdl/ndfd_GIS_tutorial (may be more current; shows how to get a shapefile, and then use in ArcGIS, but MICRODEM or QGIS should be just as good))
  • http://www.nws.noaa.gov/ndfd/gis/ndfd_GIS_tutorial.html

Hurricane GIS data

• Best source, GIS formats, current weather: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gis/
• http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atlantic/ 
• http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/ 
• http://coast.noaa.gov/hurricanes/?redirect=301ocm  (web maps, download button at upper right; none of the formats are ideal for GIS)
• USGS hurricane: http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/hurricanes/index.html
• NOAA hurricane center: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ (especially the historical information)
• http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/tcfaqG.html (G11 to G14)

Tornadoes, Hail, Wind (1950's on)

• http://www.spc.noaa.gov/gis/svrgis/   (also http://www.spc.noaa.gov/wcm/#data )

Climate records, data tables and graphs: 

• Consolidated US government climate data: https://www.data.gov/climate/
• WMO, worldwide station data: ftp://ftp.atdd.noaa.gov/pub/GCOS/WMO-Normals
• ICOADS: http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds540.0/  International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS) Release 2.5, Individual Observations
• http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/ 
• http://www.weather.gov/climate/index.php
• ESA CCI (Climate change initiative): http://cci.esa.int/
• FAO Aquastat Potential evapotranspiration
• http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/reanalysis/reanalysis.shtml can give monthly fields of weather data (such as wind vectors)
• http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/
• Koppen
  • Global grid: http://www.fao.org/nr/climpag/globgrids/KC_classification_en.asp
  • KMZ, Global grid and shapefiles: http://koeppen-geiger.vu-wien.ac.at/shifts.htm
  • (0.1 x 0.1 degree grid: http://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/mpeel/koppen.html
• Ship logs
• CRU_CL_2_0
• http://www.worldclim.org/current global grids of 7 parameters, 30" to 10' spacing
• ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/normals/   1961-1990 Climate Normals
• World climate grids:  worldclim.org  
• PRISM grids from Oregon State

Global maps of a dozen or so parameters, can download in Geotiff (0.1 to 1 degree resolution) http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/GlobalMaps/?eocn=topnav&eoci=globalmaps

Snow coverage--KML files

Climate division shapefiles for the US: ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/divboundaries/gis/  You need all the files.  The 387 regions have names (each state has several regions), and no statistical information.  Not particularly useful.

http://cdo.ncdc.noaa.gov/pls/plclimprod/cdomain.DS3500?datasetabbv=DS3500&countryabbv=&GEORegionabbv=&Forceoutside=

CMIP5 Global Climate Change Viewer  http://regclim.coas.oregonstate.edu/gccv/

Climate and economic data: http://www.wri.org/our-work/project/cait-climate-data-explorer
 

Last revision 6/22/2018