climate-change.md

title	Climate Change Data
description	A collection of the most important "general" datasets on climate change.
keywords	climate data, world climate data, historical climate data, CO2 levels globally, CO2 emission from fossil fuels
date	2018-04-12
modified	2018-06-12

What are the most important "general" datasets to have on climate change?

Policy

• Country or sub-region commitments (e.g. emission amounts, cuts, temperature targets)
• Which countries / regions have emission trading schemes in place and their status
• CO2 "price" in European ETS http://datahub.io/core/eu-emissions-trading-system (European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) data from EUTL)

State of the World

Green house gases including C02:

• CO2 Levels globally (PPM over time) - http://datahub.io/core/co2-ppm
• CO2 emissions:
  • From Fossil Fuels: http://datahub.io/core/co2-fossil-global
  • From Fossil Fuels By Nation: https://datahub.io/core/co2-fossil-by-nation
• Human population growth / Urban population growth
• Volcano emissions

Impacts

• Global temperature
  • http://datahub.io/core/global-temp (NASA GISTEMP and GCAP)
  • http://datahub.io/core/global-temp-anomalies (NASA GISTEMP anomalies)
• #27 - CO2 per country (what about other GHG)
• Soil temperature
• Satelite measurement temperature datasets
• Ocean temperature datasets
• Glacier size - http://datahub.io/core/glacier-mass-balance
• Sea Level http://datahub.io/core/sea-level-rise (Global Average Absolute Sea Level Change, 1880-2014)

Sources

• IPCC Data - http://www.ipcc-data.org/
• NOAA
• http://nsstc.uah.edu/climate/
• http://data.worldbank.org (search for 'climate change')
• http://cdiac.ornl.gov/climate/temp/temp_table.html
• http://www.climate4you.com/GlobalTemperatures.htm
• https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access
• http://catalog.data.gov/dataset
• https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data
• https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/data-vertical-levels/surface-data-set