Data Sources and Tools
These sites provide on-line or downloadable tools for visualizing or manipulating data or datasets that can be used in the classroom.

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- Climate 159 matches
- Earth surface 95 matches
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- Ocean 116 matches
- Solar system 46 matches
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Realtime equatorial Pacific Tao buoy data part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website provides realtime buoy data from an interactive map of NOAA TAO buoy locations. The TAO array is a major component of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Observing System, the ...Science Background Required: Basic scientific background required, Broadly accessible
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Maps, Datasets and Tools:Datasets, Audio/Visual:Animations/Video
Data Source: Observational Data, Real-Time Data
OSCAR: Ocean Surface Current Analyses part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The OSCAR Java-based program provides near-realtime ocean surface currents derived from satellite altimeter and scatterometer data. From this site, users can download data, and view interactive ...Science Background Required: Basic scientific background required
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Maps, Datasets and Tools:Datasets, Audio/Visual:Animations/Video
Data Source: Real-Time Data
Brown University: Quaternary Environments part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website is the access page to an interactive pollen data viewer developed by Brown University's Quaternary Environments group. The pollen viewer versions 3.1 and 3.2 show pollen taxa from 21,000 ...Science Background Required: Basic scientific background required
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Maps, Datasets and Tools:Datasets, Audio/Visual:Animations/Video
Data Source: Observational Data
MultiSpec part of SERC Web Resource Collection
MultiSpec is a freeware processing system for interactively analyzing Earth observational multispectral image data, such as that produced by the Landsat series of Earth satellites and hyperspectral ...Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Tools
SEA-COOS Ocean Observations part of SERC Web Resource Collection
ebsite hosts a coordinated, central data repository for near real time ocean data of the Southeastern US, Atlantic, and Caribbean. Data includes sea surface temperature, wind direction and speed, ...Science Background Required: Basic scientific background required
Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Tools
Data Source: Observational Data
UniData: Integrated Data Viewer part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) is a Java based software framework for analyzing and visualizing geoscience data. The IDV brings together the ability to display and work with satellite imagery, ...Science Background Required: Basic scientific background required
Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Tools
Hawaii Volcano Geochemical Data Sets part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This is a compilation of published and unpublished geochemical data from Hawaiian volcanoes, organized in a standardized format. The files are saved as text with tab-separated-values (.tsv).Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Datasets
Western Regional Climate Center part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The Western Regional Climate Center website provides links to information on historical climate data, current observations and forecasts, Western Regional Climate Center projects, climate monitoring, ...Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Datasets
Crystallography Open Database part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This database is a sister to the American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database (AMCSD) and contains all the data that is in the AMCSD as well as data that has been deposited by individuals and ...Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Datasets
Carleton College Weather Database part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site links in real time to the automated weather station at Carleton College. Users are able to produce graphs using ten variables (up to two at a time). Data are archived back to 1999.Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Tools
Data Source: Observational Data, Real-Time Data



