MIT Libraries Research Guides - Atmospheric Sciences & Oceanography

Print Sources

Some sources in the Libraries are found in print or on CD. See Barton for complete information:

World Weather Records

Engineering Weather Data

GHCN Global Daily

World Survey of Climatology

Weather Almanac

NCDC Summary of the Day

Many sites exist on the web which contain atmospheric, oceanic, and other earth science data. The links below can get you started.

National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
A large repository of climatic information for the US and the world.
NCDC Online Climate Data Directory
See the list of climatic summaries products toward the end of the page.
Climatological Data (US)
Daily and monthly data for 8000 US locations
Local Climatological Data (US)
Hourly/Daily data for 300 US Cities
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)
A major data portal for all aspects of earth science information.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Datasets
Try their Community Data portal.
NOAA Central Library Historical Foreign Climate Data
Provides historical climatological data for several countries through scanned images of their older publications.
National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC)
Includes World Ocean Atlas/ Database links.
WHOI Data Center
Wind and Sea
Provides links to several sites reviewed and updated by NOAA Central Library.
Solar Resource Data from the NREL
Links to several solar radiation datasets.
Wind Research from NREL
Wind maps, Wind Atlas, and windspeed data.