Approved Data
For Final Project
Other data sources may be acceptable, but you need to get permission from Gretchen before using.
Radiosondes
These balloon soundings provide a vertical profile of the atmosphere, available twice daily from many different stations.
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/raobs/
Surface Stations
ASOS: Automated Surface Observation
Stations (U.S.; 2000-current)
Locations
FTP
site for monthly 1-minute data
Description of data: 6405:
Winds, Visibility
Description of data: 6406:
Precip, Temperature, Pressure
Alternative: ASOS (Global; 1901-current)
Surface
Data Hourly Global (DS3505)
Select SIMPLIFIED options
Agree to terms of WMO Resolution 40
(World Met. Org.)
Select Country, click continue
Choose a state (if U.S.) and Selected Stations from State, click continue
Choose a station (or multiple
stations), click continue
Select Date Range. Optional: Select Select Only Obs. on the Hour
(depends on needs for your project)
Complete
Inventory Review (and Confirm You Are Not a Robot!). Enter email address.
Download the
data once acknowledgement email arrives (11:15)
Storm
Reports
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/wcm/#data
-select the
comma-delimited file you need (.csv)
Note: use this command to convert to
space-delimited (should be executed in bash script)
cat 2012_torn.csv | tr
'[,]' '[ ]' > 2012_torn.txt
River
Data
-scroll down
to the graphic showing Current streamflow
conditions
-select a
state from Use a Form
-scroll down and select station number
-select "Time-series: Daily data" from pulldown
menu
-scroll down to table showing available parameters and period of record, then
select data and dates desired as a Tab-separated
data file
-copy and save resulting page to a text file
Buoy
Data
-select a
region from the right side of the global buoy map
-select a buoy
from the map
-select View Details
if details page states Data from this station are not quality controlled by NDBC,
then you need to pick another station
-select View History from the buoy information
balloon
-select the
year(s) of historical data you need for your study
-download the
compressed file (method 1, use gunzip to uncompress), or view the file and copy and paste to file
(method 2)
Road
Data
New York Traffic Volume:
https://www.dot.ny.gov/divisions/engineering/technical-services/highway-data-services/hdsb
Download data for whole state (zip
files), or select a specific county.
Note: use this command to convert from
comma-delimited (.csv) to space-delimited (should be
executed in bash script)
cat VOL_2001.csv | tr
'[,]' '[ ]' > VOL_2001.txt
Reanalysis Data (Gridded Atmospheric Data)
http://wiki.atmos.und.edu/atmos/merra/downloadingmerra
Note that the reanalysis data is in netCDF format, which will not be covered in lecture for another month. If you decide you would like to use this data, I can give you some of the notes early.
El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
Southern Oscillation Index (SOI):
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/teleconnections/enso/indicators/soi/
Below the plot, click on the Excel spreadsheet icon to Download data in CSV format
Note: use this command to convert from
comma-delimited (.csv) to space-delimited (should be
executed in bash script)
cat data.csv | tr
'[,]' '[ ]' > data.txt
Global Mean
Temperature
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/time-series/global
Scroll down to table, then click on the Excel spreadsheet icon to Download data in CSV format
Note: use this command to convert from
comma-delimited (.csv) to space-delimited (should be
executed in bash script)
cat data.csv | tr
'[,]' '[ ]' > data.txt