Site highlights recent research and provides links to a variety of data and resources.
Current and historical summaries of weather conditions and crop progress for the U.S. and individual states. The Drought Monitor is a synthesis of multiple indices, outlooks and news accounts, that represents a consensus of federal and academic scientists and provides a weekly overview of where in the United States drought is emerging, lingering, subsiding or forecast. Site includes an archive of summaries dating back to May 20, 1999. Surface, upper air, and marine data. Comprehensive, searchable directory of descriptions of data sets relevant to global change research including climate change, agriculture, the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and oceans, geology, geography, and human dimensions of global change.