Climate Links

Climate Monitoring Resources:

• TOGA-TAO Buoy Data - from PMEL
• Real Time Climate Maps - from CDC
• Current Climate Diagnostics Bulletin
• CPC Climate Bulletin: monthly updates on global climate conditions
• CPC Special Summaries
• CPC Regional Climate Centers
• NOAA/USDA Weather and Crop Summary
• Latest SST maps: global and northeast Pacific totals or anomalies.
• Observed SST anomalies off the west coast of the USA: the California El Niño watch.
• Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center's SST maps (high resolution!).
• Time series for the past year's SST at Amphitrite Point on Vancouver Island.
• FSU (COAPS) - tropical winds and ocean model output
• COLA/IGES -current weather and climate images + ENSO FORECASTS

Climate Prediction Pages:

• NOAA's quarterly Long-Lead Experimental Climate Forecast Bulletin,
• CDC ENSO Forecast Forum, updated monthly.
• Bill Gray's Atlantic Hurricane Forecasts
• International Research Institute experimental climate forecasts.
• IRI Monthly Climate Digest
• European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF) seasonal climate forecasts.
• Lamont-Doherty ENSO Forecasts and ENSO Monitor
• Climate Prediction Center: Seasonal Outlooks are here

Information About the El Niño-Southern Oscillation:

• El Niño Impacts on the Pacific Northwest: a statement prepared by the University of Washington's Climate Impacts Group.
• US state-by-state El Niño Impacts Analysis, from the Climate Prediction Center.
• The 1997 El Niño! (maintained by Steven Hare)
• CDC ENSO MONITOR, the latest maps and indices.
• Pacific ENSO update- provided by the Pacific ENSO applications center pilot project
• CPC ENSO Advisory
• El Niño - theme page, provided by PMEL
• El Niño and Climate Prediction - NOAA report to our nation on our changing climate (updated 9/95 with more great images)
• Environmental and Societal Impacts Group, NCAR
• TOPEX/POSEIDON El Niño Watch - updated, global sea level variability via satellite altimetry
• ENSO Prediction Reading List, maintained by Ed Sarachik at the University of Washington.

Information on Climate Change Research

• The U.S. Global Change Research Info Office
• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: includes a link to the 1995 Second Assessment Report.
• Global Warming Update - from NOAA / NESDIS / NCDC
• Frequently Asked Questions, addressed by the IPCC.

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