Recent Research Interests: 

• North American climatology

• Teleconnections and climate impacts

  • ENSO

  • PDO

  • AO/NAO

• climate change

• Arctic climate variability and change

NCDC Climate Monitoring

ENSO Update

In the News:   Science

• Climate Institute (climate.org)
• Science Daily (climate news)
• AAAS, AMS, AAG
• Science Magazine
• AMS Journals Online
• American Scientist Online
• Science Watch
• some Earth Science Outlets

Academia

• PhDs.org
• The Chronicle of Higher Education

• International Research Program on Climate Variability CLIVAR and predictability

• IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library

• Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO)

• The National Climatic Data Center

• NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostic Center

• Locating climate and weather data

• Climate Dioxide Information Analysis Center - a compendium of data on global change

• Global Change Master Directory - wide set of environmental data

Datasets

• CPC Oceanic and Atmospheric Climate Data (Teleconnection Indices)

• MONTHLY Intrinsic PressureLevel phi Geopotential height from NOAA NCEP-NCAR CDAS-1

• The NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis Project

  • Visualization of NCEP Data

  • NCEP Data availability and visualization at CDC

• Climate Indices from IRI LDEO Library [CPC Indices, SLPs, SSTs, etc.]

• Jim Hurrell's (UCAR) Climate Indices Page [various AO, NAO datasets]

• David Thompson's Annular Modes website [AO, NAO, AAO]

• SOI Data (1855-2004) University of East Anglia

• U.S. HCN Daily and Monthly Temperature and Precipitation Data

• COAPS ENSO Index (1868-present)

• JISAO climate datasets (temperature, precipitation, teleconnection indices, PDO, etc.)

• NCDC Online Climate Data

• Dai's PDSI reconstructions from tree-ring data 1700-

• Climate Division: Temperature, Precipitation, and Drought data - 1900 to present

• U.S. Climate Normals (CLIM81)

• CDC's U.S. Climate Normals

• EarthInfo Environmental Datasets (Climate [NCDC, GHCS, COADS], streamflow [USGS, Canada], water quality [USGS])

• Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (CIESIN)

• U.S. Soil Moisture monitoring and prediction (visualization and data distribution) [Climatology; Past, Current, Predicted conditions for soil moisture, precipitation, temperature, evaporation, runoff]

• WARM Database (Illinois) [climate and hydrology]

Climate Visualization

• CDC Interactive and Plotting Analysis Pages

• Nasa's Earth Observatory (Atmosphere, Ocean, Land, Energy, Life - data and visualizations)

• GrADS Homepage

Climate Monitoring

• ENSO Forecast Forum (CPC)

  • IRI Model Forecasts

  • IRI's ENSO information - updates

• NCDC Climate Monitoring Page - regional to global updates

• Climate Diagnostics Bulletin (CPC) [Tropics & Extratropics]

• World Meteorological Organization Newsletter