How to access data files

• Anonymous FTP 
  • How to FTP
  • Create and FTP subsets
  • Connect to our complete anonymous ftp site or our ftp site for the NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis.
  • Problems with FTP
•  Using OPeNDAP(previously known as DODS) for Remote Data Access
  Read or process PSL's data directly without ftping files.
  • THREDDS Catalog of Gridded Data
  • Using OPeNDAP to read PSL data.
  • Main OPeNDAP Documentation Page.

Software to read our netCDF files

• What is netCDF? 
  • General Information about netCDF
  • The Unidata netCDF page
• Read, Process and Plot PSL files 
  • Suggestions for reading our netCDF files.
  • Software packages that read and plot PSL's netCDF files.
  • PSL's web-based display and analysis tools using PSL's climate datasets.
  • General FORTRAN code that will read our files
  • Frequently encountered problems reading our files

Other Data Resources 

• At PSL's web site:
• FAQ: Where to find weather and climate information.
• Other Data Analysis and plotting websites.
• Other Research Climate Data Resources
• Boulder, Colorado and US Climate Information
• Other web locations:
  • Weather data for over 8000 stations world-wide
  • NCAR's listing of data resources.

How to cite data/plots 

• You can use the plots produced from this page in publications. We ask that you acknowledge the Physical Sciences Laboratory of NOAA/ESRL in the publication. For example, "Image provided by the NOAA-ESRL Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder Colorado from their Web site at /".
• You will also need to cite the source of the data directly.