Maps & Data

In FY04 the GIS Initiative started a “GIS Climate Change Scenarios” project to serve a wide community of GIS users interested in global climate change. In this project, the GIS Initiative collaborates with the Community Data Portal team to allow for web-based distribution of global datasets of climate change scenarios that are being generated for the upcoming 4th Assessment Report of the IPCC by the CCSM. Through a dynamic converter CCSM data are translated from the NetCDF format into a common GIS shapefile format. That allows user to view climate change data on-line via an Internet Mapping Server and to download global datasets for further GIS-based visualization, analysis, and mapping. The project's website will be fully functional in January 2005.

View some CCSM animations in GIS.

Climate Change Scenario on ArcGlobe - (avi) (after clicking the link please wait till the movie starts to play)

Useful Dataset Links - Here you will find useful links for locating spatial data and information available through Internet servers or GIS data clearinghouses. [learn more]

For UCAR staff the GIS Initiative has many useful ESRI spatial datasets available. UCAR staff can browse and download these datasets at this webpage.