GeoResource Collection

A collection of data or tools that I find useful in my learning of earth science ;)

open access data

1. climate data

1.1 weather station records

• Climate Data Online NOAA
  • An online portal that contains the collection of meteorological data from global weather stations.
• SMHI
  • Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute provides detailed long-term monitoring data.
• Tarfala Research Station
  • Meteorological record of weather station at Tarfala Research Station, Stockholm University. Mass balance record of Storglaciären can be found at Bolin Center for Climate Research.

1.2 Assimulated Global Climatic data

• GLDAS NOAH
  • Global Land Data Assimilation System ingests satellite and ground-based observational data products (0.25 arc degree).
  • The data can be downloaded mannually or automatically by a tool.
  • Google Earth Engine also has access to the data. I have done a practice to convert the units and display the global monthly/annual precipitation and temperature.
• SST
  • Smith and Reynolds NCDC Level 4 Historical Reconstructed Sae Surface Temperature Monthly Data.

1.3 Other

• Hurrican path
  • International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS) gives us hurrican tracks in csv/netcdf/shapefile formats.
• and more...

2. useful tools/software

2.1 Google Earth Engine

• earthengine-py-notebooks
• gee-community
• fun with gee
  • Note this is my own practice templates so you may ignore and skip it :)

2.2 R library

• SPEI
  • Standard Precipitation and Evaportranspiration Index. https://spei.csic.es/ A useful and reliable drought index.

2.3 Matlab

• Efficient subpixel image registration by cross-correlation
  • A powerful tool to achieve high precision sub-pixel image registration. 👍
• ImGRAFT
  • An Image Georectification and Feature Tracking toolbox. This is where I started the glacier surge project. Personally I learned a lot from it. 🏔️

2.4 ENVI/IDL

• COSI-CORR Tools for displacement tracking.

2.5 Other

• Awesome GIS The most comprehensive GIS library.
• Geofolio Quick tool to check the climate, landcover and other land surface conditions at your study area.

Hope this will make our life easier. Feel free to share your collection of data and comment.

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