Data Visualization Links

Interactive web based data imagery

Atmosphere

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Research Homepage (more info) Includes Global Warming, El Nino, Ozone Hole, Geothermal, Hurricanes, etc.
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Satellite Homepage (more info)
• IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library (more info) Has lots of data sets related to Earth science. Take your time while browsing through this site to get a true feeling of available data.
• Weather Underground: Midwest Temperature (more info) with current and past temperature, dewpoint, radar maps, satellite images, etc.
• NorthAmerican Plots of Temp, pressure, winds, dew point Great Site with Model Output (more info)
• NASA Earth Observatory (more info) : Allows users to create animations of data sets related to Earth System Science, (fires, radiation, ozone, chlorophyll, drought, etc. ).
• NOAA interactive data visualization (more info) for carbon cycle greenhouse gases.
• Storm Prediction Center (more info)

Biosphere

• National Snow and Ice Data Center: Gallery; Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Images (more info) emphasis on data set images and teacher resources.
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Fisheries Homepage (more info)
• NASA Earth Observatory Global Maps (more info) : Allows users to create animations of data sets related to Earth System Science, (fires, radiation, ozone, chlorophyll, drought, etc.).

Climate system

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Climate Homepage (more info)
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Research Homepage (more info) includes Global Warming, El Nino, Ozone Hole, Geothermal, Hurricanes,...
• NASA GISS global Change data access
• International Research Institute for Climate Prediction - IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library (title provided or enhanced by cataloger) (more info) has lots of data sets related to Earth science. Take your time while browsing through this site to get a true feeling of what data is available.
• Climate Monitoring and Diagnostic Laboratory: Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases (more info)
• Climate Reconstructions (more info) including temperature estimates, hydroclimate (precipitation and drought), ocean and atmospheric circulation, and vegetation.

Energy and cycles

• Earth Observatory (more info) Allows users to create animations of data sets related to Earth System Science, (fires, radiation, ozone, chlorophyll, drought, ...)
• International Research Institute for Climate Prediction - IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library (title provided or enhanced by cataloger) (more info) has lots of data sets related to Earth science. Take your time while browsing through this site to get a true feeling of what data is available.

Earth history and time

• Vostok graphs
  • 430 kyr Vostok CO2 record (more info)
  • 430 kyr Vostok Temperature record (more info)
• The Village Project ( This site may be offline. )
• Climate Reconstructions (more info) including temperature estimates, hydroclimate (precipitation and drought), ocean and atmospheric circulation, and vegetation.

Earth's surface

• Earth Observatory (more info) Allows users to create animations of data sets related to Earth System Science, (fires, radiation, ozone, chlorophyll, drought, etc.)
• Scorecard: Get the Facts on Local Pollution -- Air and water pollution maps. Source of data and discussion of data sets is included.
• United States Geologic Survey Geology Homepage (more info) interactive maps and GIS data.
• Measured and estimated seafloor topography (more info) has links to data and imagery related to ocean and land topography.
• Visualizing Topography (more info) : linking topographic maps to 3-D visualizations of terrain that can be manipulated and view for different perspectives.
• Cornell University (more info) is a great interactive site. Web Map with GIS information and geological maps, Java Applets, Digital Earth, etc.

Human dimensions

• Earth Observatory (more info) Allows users to create animations of data sets related to Earth System Science, (fires, radiation, ozone, chlorophyll, drought, etc.)
• Cornell University (more info) is a great interactive site. Web Map with GIS information and geological maps, Java Applets, Digital Earth, ...
• Scorecard from Environmental Defense -- Air and water pollution maps. Source of data and discussion of data sets is included.
• Human Population through History: 1 A.D. to 2020 ( This site may be offline. )
• Internet Geography: Population ( This site may be offline. )
• Astronomy Picture of the Day: Earth At Night (more info)

Hydrosphere and cryosphere

• Water Resources of the United States (more info) has access to many maps and user selected graphs of on-line hydrological data.
• Eastern Earth Surface Processes Team: Satellite Images of the Earth's Glaciers (more info)
• Glacier Bay, Alaska, from the Ground, Air and Space Fly-By Theater (more info)
• National Snow and Ice Data Center: Gallery; Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Images (more info) MODIS is Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) Terra satellite. This link is mostly of Artic.
• Images of Antarctic Ice Shelves (more info)
• Earth Observatory (more info) Allows user to build animations and rotatable global maps of snow and ice cover betwen January 1978 to December 1996.

Oceans

• National Snow and Ice Data Center: Gallery; Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Images (more info) emphasis on data set images and teacher resources.
• http://www.noaa.gov/research.html (more info) includes Global Warming, El Nino, Ozone Hole, Geothermal, Hurricanes, etc.
• National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration: Oceans in the spotlight (more info)
• Measured and estimated seafloor topography (more info) has links to data and imagery related to ocean and land topography.

Solar system

• The very latest SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) images (more info)
• Solar Influences Data Analysis Center (more info) got to sunspot archives and graphics, then to Graphs for graphs of sunspot numbers.
• Solar Physics: The Sun Spot Cycle (more info) images and graphs of sunspot nmbers.
• NASA GISS global Change data access
• Views of the Solar System (more info)
• NASA's Planetary Photojournal (more info)

Solid Earth

• Visualizing Topography (more info) : linking topographic maps to 3-D visualizations of terrain that can be manipulated and view fro different perspectives.

General Interest

WorldWatcher Software (more info) Free software for analysis and visualization of a large variety of Earth Science data. "The WorldWatcher Project is dedicated to the improvement of Earth and environmental science education through the use of data visualization and analysis tools to support inquiry-based pedagogy."