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IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library

Monitoring Global Climate
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Map Room
A collection of maps and analyses used to monitor climate conditions. Click on any of the maps to modify the figures or access the source data.

Climate Information Digest
A monthly publication covering global climate events, their impacts and the seasonal forecast.

ENSO Web
Information about El Niño-Southern Oscillation.

Climate Highlights
Relates headlines from the CID with likely future conditions.

The IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library contains over 300 datasets from a variety of earth science disciplines and climate-related topics. It is a powerful tool that offers the following capabilities at no cost to the user:
  • access any number of datasets;
  • create analyses of data ranging from simple averaging to more advanced EOF analyses;
  • monitor present climate conditions with maps and analyses in the Maproom;
  • create visual representations of data, including animations;
  • download data in a variety of commonly-used formats, including GIS-compatible formats.
Are you new to the world of climate data? Check out our Introduction to Climate Data page.

What's New
Apr 09-New searching options are available in the "Browse/Search Datasets" search tool. This is a great way to find datasets in the Data Library. Give it a try: Browse/Search Datasets.
Apr 09-ECHAM 4.5-GML 12-member ensemble monthly retrospective coupled model forecasts for 1982-2006 have been added to the Data Library.
Mar 09-The NOAA ERSSTv3b extended reconstructed monthly sea surface temperature dataset for the globe (1854 to present) has been added to the Data Library. It replaces the ERSSTv3, which is no longer being updated.
Feb 09-A new interactive tool for displaying maps of forecast temperature and precipitation from the individual AGCMs used to produce the IRI Seasonal Forecasts is available in the IRI Map Room.
Feb 09-A canonical correlation analysis (CCA) function has been added to the Data Library. Find documentation here: cca
Jan 09-The latest monthly (September 2008) and pentad (November 2008) releases of the CPC Merged Analysis of Precipitation (CMAP) have been added.
Jan 09-The real-time predictions of sea surface temperature anomaly (SSTA) fields used as forcing in the AGCMs used to produce the IRI seasonal forecasts are now available as a dataset in the Data Library.


Finding Data Help Resources
Datasets by Category Introductory Tutorial
Datasets by Source Statistical Analysis Tutorial
Dataset Search Ingrid Function Documentation
Browse/Search Datasets Questions and Answers
Browse/Search Maproom