Data Sources

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Categorized list of links to useful data sources. Please edit using the "edit" button in the top right corner (do not use the commenting function to add list entries).

Climate and other geo-data

Overview sites and portals, major organizations

RealClimate.org: Catalogue of climate, paleo and model data that will be kept up to date.
An Informed Guide to Climate Data Sets by NCAR people

NOAA:

National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC)
NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)

Aggregated or other derived data

Socio-Economic data

Official statistics

United Nations Statistics Division
WTO International trade and tariff data
European statistical office (Eurostat)
German statistical office database

Other data

Network data

Mark Newman's collection of many real-world networks and links to other network data bases
Alex Arenas' network data sets
Barabasi's network data sets
Internet Topology Collection

Personal tools

Sections

Climate and other geo-data

Overview sites and portals, major organizations

Geo-archives (cores, stalagmites, tree rings, ...)

Raw measurement/observation data

Reanalysis, (re)gridded or interpolated measurement data

Model output, simulated or synthetic data

Aggregated or other derived data

Socio-Economic data

Official statistics

Other data

Network data