South American Low-Level Jet Experiment  (SALLJEX, 2003)

North American Monsoon Experiment  (NAME, 2004)

VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study  (VOCALS)

Monsoon Experiment for South America  (MESA)

La Plata Basin Project - Regional Hydroclimate Project (LPB)

Intra-Americas Study of Climate Processes (IASCLiP)

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

  MSU - precipitation
   

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 analyses

• NCEP/NOAA Climate Modeling Branch

  LDEO analyses

  FSU pseudo-stress analyses

  TOGA-TAO

• U.S. Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR)

  International CLIVAR Home Page

  Pan American Climate Studies (PACS) Data Center

  Oceanography of the Intra-Americas Sea

  International Center for Research on "El Niño" (CIIFEN-Ecuador)

  Pilot Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic-(PIRATA)

  KNMI Climate Explorer

  Large Scale Biosphere- Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA)

  Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI)

  Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX)

Outgoing Longwave Radiation

• NOAA Interpolated OLR Data

  Corrected for satellite drift

  MSU layer temperatures (Spencer and Christy)

Other Satellite Data

• GOES Sector Imagery over South America

  Special Sensor Microwave/Imager Dataset (SSM/I)

  INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE CLOUD CLIMATOLOGY PROJECT (ISCCP)

  HIRS (upper tropospheric water vapour)

  GEWEX / NASA Water Vapour Project

Reanalyses Data Sets

• Eta Model Forecasts for South America

  NCEP/NCAR reanalysis

  NCEP/NCAR reanalysis (at NCAR)

  NCEP/NCAR reanalysis (at CDC)

  NASA reanalysis

  ECMWF reanalysis

  ECMWF reanalysis (at NCAR)