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

http://www.usgs.gov/water/

-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

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

-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