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Climate Data

Surface data

BADC	The British Atmospheric Data Centre
CLIMATE WIZARD	CLIMATE WIZARD, The Nature Conservancy
CRU	Climatic Research Unit
ECA&D	European Climate Assessment & Dataset project
ECMWF	European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
GEOSS	The Global Earth Observation System of Systems
GCOS	Global Climate Observing System
GHCN	Global Historical Climatology Network
GCMD (NASA)	Global Change Master Discovery
GOSIC	The Global Observing Systems Information Center
GSOD	Global Summary Of the Day (NOAA)
IGRA	Integrated Global Radiosondes Archive
IPCC	Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
KNMI	Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
NCDC	National Climate Data Center
NCEP/NCAR	NOAA/ESRL Physical Sciences Division
PRUDENCE project	Prediction of Regional scenarios and Uncertainties for Defining EuropeaN Climate change risks and Effects
UNEP	United Nations Environment Programme (Global Environment Outlook)
WMO-CLIVAR	Climate Variability and Predictability project
WMO MEDARE	The MEditerranean climate DAta REscue WMO Initiative
WorldCLIM	Global Climate Data_WorldCLIM (data for ArcGIS)
WRI	EarthTrends Environmantal Information

Satellite data

BSRN	Baseline Surface Radiation Network Observations for shortwave and longwave radiation fluxes
EUMETSAT	European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
NESDIS	The National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
REVERB/ECHO	Reverb metadata and service discovery tool (NASA)
WIST	The Warehouse Inventory Search Tool (NASA)

Air pollutants / emissions / ozone / aerosols

AERONET	AErosol RObotic NETwork program (NASA)
CDIAC	Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
EMEP	European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme also http://tarantula.nilu.no/projects/ccc/network/index.html
GEIA-ACCENT	The Global Emissions Inventory Activity (GEIA) Atmospheric Composition Change: the European Network (ACCENT)
NCAR-ACD	NCAR Atmospheric Chemistry Division
WDCGG	World Data Centre for Greenhouse Gases Measurements of greenhouse and related trace gas species (WMO)
WRI	Earth trends The Environmental Information Portal
WOUDC	World Ozone and Ultraviolet Radiation Data Centre (WMO)

Ocean data

GOOS Global Ocean Observing System

Terrestial data

GTOS Global Terrestial Observing System also http://www.fao.org/gtos/GT-NET.html

Proxies and reconstructions / indirect data

ACRE	Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth
CLIWOC	Climatological Database for the World's Oceans 1750-1850
GCMD	Global Change Master Discovery (NASA)

Climate extreme indices

CLIVAR/ETCCDI	CLIVAR (Climate Variability and Predictability) project Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices
ECA&D	European Climate Assessment & Dataset project