Resources

Climate/Earth System Models:

• NCAR’s Community Earth System Model (CESM): http://www.cesm.ucar.edu/
• Princeton GFDL: https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/earth-system-model/

Computational Fluid Dynamics:

• CFD Online: https://www.cfd-online.com/

Remote Sensing:

• USGS Earth Explorer – Satellite images, aerial photos, maps, and much more
  Now includes on-demand ASTER products and Landsat Surface Reflecatance
• GloVIS – USGS Global Visualization Viewer, a primary site for Landsat and ASTER
• Reverb | Echo – Access most NASA data – MODIS Land products, ASTER, AVHRR, etc
• NASA Earthdata Search – Nice site to search for ASTER data
• USGS Satellite Image Catalog – A list of the types of satellite images offered by the USGS
  With product descriptions and links to get the data
• LandsatLook Viewer – USGS browse for Landsat images from Jan.1999 to present – JPEG images only
• WELD – Web Enabled Landsat Data – USGS annual, seasonal and monthly composites of Landsat data from January 2003 to present – US only
• NASA MODIS home page – The place to start for MODIS
• MODIS Level 1 and Atmosphere Archive – MODIS Daily scenes and Atmosphere products
• MODIS Data Subsets – MODIS Land Product time-series subsets – see the FAQ
• NASA AppEEARS – Easily extract MODIS and Landsat WELD point sample data
• MODIS Reprojection Tool on the Web – Great way to get a limited number of MODIS tiles
• USGS LP DAAC E-Learning – Very good tutorials, presentations, and webinars on data availability and access!
• Suomi and VIIRS Data Access – NOAA CLASS data server (register and view the tutorial)
• NOAA DMSP and VIIRS Nighttime Lights – NOAA NCEI
• NOAA VIIRS Monthly Nighttime Lights – NOAA NCEI
• SMAP – Soil Moisture Active Passive
• G-LiHT – Goddard’s LiDAR, Hyperspectral & Thermal Imager
• Declassified satellite imagery – USGS site for Corona and other images
• Corona Atlas of the Middle East – U. of Arkansas web-based image atlas
• The National Map -USGS site for National Elevation Data (NED), NAIP high res aerial photography, Landcover and other data
• USGS Data in Action – Many interesting projects using satellite images
• NASA Sensing Our Planet – NASA-Featured research projects from 2015
• Alaska Satellite Facility – SAR and ALOS data from the U. of Alaska Fairbanks
• USGS EROS home page – Earth Resources Observation Systems Data Center
• Goddard Earth Sciences – Data and Information Services Center
• Global Land Cover Facility – Many free ortho-rectified Landsat MSS, TM, and ETM scenes available
• Landsat Ground Stations

Climate & Weather Data:

• NCDC – National Climatic Data Center
• EPA Climate Change Indicators
• NOAA PSD
• IRI Climate Data Library from Columbia University – a collection of data and interactive climate maps
• Weather Soundings from U. of Wyoming – Global daily soundings archived
• NOAA NARR – North American Regional Reanalysis
• Natural Resources Conservation Service – USDA
• NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory
• Weather Satellite Imagery on the Internet
• Hourly U.S. Weather Statistics
• NOAA Paleoclimatology
• Tropical Cyclone Homepage – U. of Wisconsin
• National Snow and Ice Data Center – Data visualizations
• Global average CO₂ values – NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory
• Soil Moisture CCI Project – ESA Soil Moisture Essential Climate Variable data
• Soil Moisture Active Passive – NASA Soil Moisture project
• CIMSS Blog – Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
• Hydrology from Space – Lake levels around the world
• Tides Online – NOAA water level and weather information
• Tide Prediction Server – tide tables for almost any where at any time

Career:

• AGU Career Center
• AMS Career Center
• Academic Jobs Online