| Atlas of Data on Earth |
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various |
A portal hosting various data visualisations on climate change issues - each project gives a reference to the data used. |
| Climate Change Data |
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various |
The most important “general” datasets to have on climate change |
| CO2 Emissions from Fossil Fuels since 1751, By Nation |
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CO2 emissions |
Per Country CO2 Emissions from fossil-fuels annually since 1751 till 2014. Data Data comes from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC). |
| CO2 PPM - Trends in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide |
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CO2 emissions |
CO2 PPM - Trends in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide. Data are sourced from the US Government's Earth System Research Laboratory, Global Monitoring Division. |
| Data World Data |
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various |
A range of environmental, geospatial, weather, air, etc. open datasets |
| Environmental Intelligence |
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various |
A GitHub repo collating numerous open data resources on climate change, water, forest, biodiversity, etc. |
| Glacier Mass balance data |
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glaciers |
Average cumulative mass balance of "reference" Glaciers worldwide from 1945-2014 sourced from US EPA and the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS). |
| Global Climate Change Data |
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air temperature |
Average land temperature data from 1750-2015 |
| Global Gridded Weather Data |
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temperature, precipitation, sun time, cloud cover, ground frost, vapour pressure, potential evapotranspiration |
A large set of land weather data spanning 1901-2018, gridded into 0.5x0.5 deg squares. Data extrapolated from real weather station data. Details in: LINK |
| Global Temperature Time Series |
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air temperature |
Combined Land-Surface Air and Sea-Surface Water Temperature Anomalies [i.e. deviations from the corresponding 1951-1980 means]. Global-mean monthly […] and annual means, 1880-present, updated through most recent month. |
| Greenhouse gas emissions per 1000 kilocalories |
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CO2 emissions |
Greenhouse gas emissions are measured in kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalents (kgCO₂eq) per 1000 kilocalories. |
| How many gigatons of CO2...? |
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CO2 emissions |
Data on CO2 remaining budget - Information Is Beautiful data vis with references to underlying data sources |
| How to reduce the worlds carbon footprint by 2050 |
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CO2 emissions |
Data on CO2 emissions - Information Is Beautiful data vis with references to underlying data sources |
| In Deep Water - can we offorfd to spill any oil? |
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oil spillage |
Data on oil spillage - Information Is Beautiful data vis with references to underlying data sources |
| India Air Quality Data |
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air pollution |
This data is combined(across the years and states) and largely clean version of the Historical Daily Ambient Air Quality Data released by the Ministry of Environment and Forests and Central Pollution Control Board of India under the National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy (NDSAP). |
| Mega-What? |
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energy |
World's largest and notable data sources - Information Is Beautiful data vis with references to underlying data sources |
| Methana - aka- natural gas |
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methane emissions |
Data on methane emisisons - Information Is Beautiful data vis with references to underlying data sources |
| NASA GISS Global Temperature |
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air temperature |
Temperature anomaly data |
| Nasa GISS Surface Temperature (GISTEMP) Analysis |
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air temperature |
Nasa GISS Surface Temperature (GISTEMP) Analysis. Four different series are provided: Global Annual Temperature Anomalies (Land) 1880-2014, Global Annual Temperature Anomalies (Land and Ocean) 1880-2014, Hemispheric Temperature Anomalies (Land+ Ocean) 1880-2014 and Annual Temperature anomalies (Land + Ocean) for three latitude bands that cover 30%, 40% and 30% of the global area, respectively, 1900-2014. |
| Natural disaster data |
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natural disasters |
This dataset contains information on global occurrences of natural disasters and the economic damage caused by them. The included types of natural disaster are 'Drought', 'Earthquake', 'Extreme temperature', 'Extreme weather', 'Flood', 'Impact', 'Landslide', 'Mass movement (dry)', 'Volcanic activity' and 'Wildfire'. It also includes information on all these natural disasters combined. The time period is 1900-2018 with several missing values. |
| NOAA Climate.gov data |
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various |
A range of environmental datasets (weather, air & sea temperature) mainly for the US |
| What a technologist can do about Climate Change? |
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various |
A blog post showing data visualisations and analyses on climate change issues - each analysis gives a reference to the data used. |
| World Bank Climate Change Data |
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various |
Data from World Development Indicators and Climate Change Knowledge Portal on climate systems, exposure to climate impacts, resilience, greenhouse gas emissions, and energy use. |