Data

Data portals that have collated observational data for climate model comparison:

US – NCAR Climate Data Guide: http://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/
British Atmospheric Data Centre: http://badc.nerc.ac.uk
WMO Global Weather and Climate Extremes: http://wmo.asu.edu/#global
Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change: http://www.ndsc.ncep.noaa.gov/data/
Southern Ocean Observing System Portal: http://soos.aodn.org.au/soos/

Pangea: http://www.pangaea.de/

NOAA: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/data.html

US – National Snow and Ice Data Center: http://nsidc.org/
the Binary Data Base of Profiles: http://www.bodekerscientific.com/data/the-bdbp