Annotated Listing of Web Resources

What follows is a short and non-comprehensive inventory of web-based spatial data, visualization, and analysis resources in use by the isoscapes community, as summarized from the Isoscapes 2011 breakout sessions. We will ultimately try to migrate this to a Wiki-type forum, but for now please send any questions or requests for updates to isomap@purdue.edu.

Isotopes and Chemistry

WISER
http://nds121.iaea.org/wiser/
Access and visualize IAEA water isotope data

IsoMAP
http://isomap.org
Analysis and modeling of stable isotope distributions

Waterisotopes.org
http://waterisotopes.org
Download and query water isoscapes

EarthChem
http://www.earthchem.org/
Search and access rock geochemistry data, including isotope ratios

NOAA-ESRL-GMD
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/dv/
Atmospheric composition data and visualization, including CO2 and CH4 isotope ratios

NADP
http://nadp.sws.uiuc.edu/
Atmospheric deposition data

General web-GIS Visualization, Analysis, and Collaboration Support

Google Fusion Tables
http://www.google.com/fusiontables/Home
Quick map display, mashup and sharing of tabular data

Google Earth
http://www.google.com/earth/index.html
Access, display and mashup geospatial data (desktop-based)

Data Basin
http://databasin.org
Visualize and share geospatial data

GeoCommons
http://geocommons.com
Visualize, share, and conduct basic analysis of geospatial data

CyberGIS Gateway
https://gisolve2.cigi.illinois.edu/home/
Grid-enabled analysis of geospatial data

Climate and Environment - analysis

KNMI Climate Explorer
http://climexp.knmi.nl/start.cgi?someone@somewhere
Identify and analyze climate data, especially time series and spatial correlation

Giovanni
http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni/
Web-based analysis, visualization, and download of NASA remote-sensing climate data sets

HYSPLIT
http://ready.arl.noaa.gov/HYSPLIT_traj.php
Web-based atmospheric forward and back-trajectory analysis

Climate and Environment – Data and Visualization

CRU
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg/
Download gridded global climate data (monthly time series and climatology) derived from station observations

PRISM
http://www.prism.oregonstate.edu/
High spatial resolution (2.5') regional climate maps and gridded data

NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/reanalysis/reanalysis.shtml
Large number of climate system variables at up to 6hr resolution and 2.5° spatial resolution in netCDF format

ERA-40 Reanalysis
http://www.ecmwf.int/products/data/archive/descriptions/e4/index.html
Large number of climate system variables at up to 6hr resolution and 2.5° spatial resolution

NOMADS
http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/#narr_datasets
Download gridded climate and weather data from a large number of models, paleoclimate models, and reanalysis projects including the high-resolution (32km) NARR reanalysis

WorldClim
http://www.worldclim.org/
High-resolution (1 km) global climate normal gridded datasets for current, future, and past climate states

GeoMapApp
http://www.geomapapp.org/
Identify and visualize a large number of (mostly marine) environmental datasets

Australian Megafauna Explorer
http://www.australiamegafauna.org/index.html
Visualize isotope-based environmental reconstructions

USGS Water Watch
http://waterwatch.usgs.gov/new/
Visualization and download of water level and hydroclimate data

USGS EROS
http://eros.usgs.gov/#/Find_Data
Download USGS geospatial data, including aerial imagery, DEMs, and land cover data. Also includes links to several web-GIS based data discovery tools.

USGS state level digital geological maps
http://tin.er.usgs.gov/geology/state/
Access and visualize maps in a variety of formats