Data Sources for Surface Water Vapour
This list provides sources for openly accessible data sets with worldwide coverage for which metadata is available. It is curated by the respective GCOS ECV Steward(s). The list does not claim to be complete. Anyone with a suitable dataset who wishes it to be added to this list should contact the GCOS Secretariat.
Gridded In Situ:
- HadCRUH – global marine and land surface humidity
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcruh/
- National Oceanography Centre Southampton (NOCS) Version 2.0 Surface Flux
https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds260.3/
In Situ:
- Integrated Surface Database (ISD) of the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/isd/data-access
- Hadley Centre Integrated Surface Database (HadISD)
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadisd/
- International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS)
https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds548.0/
Reanalysis:
- REANALYSES.ORG (Inventory for Reanalysis)