Links
Associated projects:
REDGEMS | Link |
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The new html version of RedGems is now operational. Regular information and data on infectious diseases and epidemics are integrated, with emphasis on RVF and remote sensing new indices. |
Climate Data portals:
Observation data portals:
Climate Research Unit (CRU) Climate datasets
Met Office Hadley Centre observations datasets
British Atmospheric Data Center (BADC)
National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
International Research Insititute for Climate and Society Data library (IRI)
Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO)
AMMA Database
Reanalysis projects:
NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis1. 1948-2007
ERA40 ECMWF: 1957-2002
JRA25 Japanese Reanalysis: 1979-2004
African weather forecasts and current situation:
GFS forecast system outputs (from the COLA website): here
NOAA CPC African Desk: here
IRI seasonal forecasts and various products over Africa: here
Usefull Tools:
NCO software: Nco is a usefull tool to modify and to do operations on netCDF files, using linux/unix command lines.
It allows downloading files from a DODS server as well.
CDO is a collection of command line Operators to manipulate and analyse Climate model Data.
Supported data formats are GRIB, netCDF, SERVICE, EXTRA and IEG. There are more than 400 operators available...
IDV: 3D real time visualization soft. Really usefull to impress people during the conferences....
Can acces real time forcecast of the GISS model via the web (a catalog can be accessed to by URL) Read both grib and netcdf files......
NCAR portal, allowing to analyze datas, perform statistic analyses and lots of things..... Really easy to use (just push buttons....)
Climate explorer, interactive climate/meteo data analysis portal (KNMI).
IPCC data vizualization center, allows to plot future climate projection maps and to download post processed data from the IPCC database.
NCL: Ncar language, son of ncargraphix, really usefull to perform analysis and to do nice plots for papers.
R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics.
It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms, Windows and MacOS
Ferret: interactive computer visualization and analysis environment designed to meet the needs of oceanographers and meteorologists analyzing large and complex gridded data sets...