Links
General
VAMOS Support Center, is jointly located at NCAR's Earth Observing Laboratory and UCAR's Joint Office for Science Support and it is sponsored by NOAA's Climate Program Office
The North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME)
The Monsoon Experiment of South America (MESA)
The South Americac Low-Level Jet Experiment (SALLJEX)
The South American Low-Level Jet Experiment (SALLJEX) at NSSL
VAMOS Ocean-Clouds-Atmosphere-Land Studies (VOCALS)
VOCALS Page at the University of Washington
La Plata Basin Continental Scale Experiment (LPB)
Oceanography of the Intra-American Seas (IAS)
Pan-American Climate Studies (PACS)
U.S. Climate Variability and Predictability (U.S. CLIVAR)
NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO)
U.S. CLIVAR MJO Working Group (MJO WG)
Large Scale Biosphere- Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA)
The Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX)
Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI)
International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI)
Framework for the Sustainable Management of the Water Resources of the La Plata Basin, with Respect to the Hydrological Effects of Climatic Variability and Change
A Europe South America Network for Climate Change assessment and Impact Studies in La Plata Basin (CLARIS-LPB)
A COordinated Regional climate Downscaling EXperiment (CORDEX)
Terrestrial Regional North American Hydroclimate Experiment (TRACE)
International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP)
Global Change System for Analysis, Research and Training (START)
U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)
National Center for Atmospheric Reseach (NCAR) and the UCAR Office of Programs
Pan American Climate Studies Sounding Network (PACS-SONET) project
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
Marine and Atmospherics Sciences Program (PCMYA), Universidad de la Republica Uruguay
UCLA Tropical Meteorology and Climate Newsletter
Colombian Comission of the Ocean (CCO)
CPC Global Monsoons website
Monsoon calendar – updated by IPRC
Data Links
Extremes of temperature and precipitation
Atlas of Extremes for the Americas,by the VAMOS WG on Extremes
Precipitation
Daily Precipitation Grids for South America (NOAA/CDC)
Monthly precipitation data (NCDC)
Hydrometeorological Datasets for LBA Study
GOES Precipitation Index (GPI) monthly-means
Willmott / Legates Precipitation Climatologies
Atlantic hurricane database users
International Hurricanes: 1983-2010
International Tropical Storms: 1983-2010
Outgoing Longwave Radiation
MSU layer temperatures (Spencer and Christy)
Other Satellite Data
3-hourly Visible Imagery over continental South America
3-hourly Visible Imagery over eastern South Pacific Ocean
High resolution (1-km) Visible Imagery sector over Bolivia
High resolution (1-km) Visible Imagery sector over Paraguay
High resolution (1-km) Visible Imagery sector over Venezuela
Special Sensor Microwave/Imager Dataset (SSM/I)
Internationa Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP)
GEWEX / NASA Water Vapour Project
Surface Observations
Global Historic Climate Network (GHCN)s
Climatic Research Unit (CRU) land surface temperature
COADS sea surface observations
NCDC Global Tropical Cyclone Position Data
Chilean National Ocean Data Center (In Spanish, Chile Navy)
COADS Monthly Summaries (1° resolution)
SST Analysis
NCEP/NOAA Climate Modeling Branch
Reanalysis Data Sets
Eta Model Forecasts for South America
NCEP/NCAR reanalysis (at NCAR)
Other Data Sets and Data Issues
DEMETER (Development of a Multimodel Ensamble System for Seasonal to Interannual Prediction)
KNMI Climate Explorer: A useful utility for time series data
GAIM (Global Analysis, Integration and Modelling)
