Data Sources for Upper-air 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.
In Situ:
- NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory Global Monitoring Data
https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/
- Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC)
http://www.ndsc.ncep.noaa.gov/
- Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive (IGRA)
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/weather-balloon/integrated-global…
- GCOS Reference Upper-Air Network (GRUAN)
- GEWEX Water Vapour Assessment
Reanalysis:
- REANALYSES.ORG (Inventory for Reanalysis)
Satellite:
- Satellite ECV Inventory by the CEOS/CGMS Working Group on Climate (WGClimate)
http://climatemonitoring.info/ecvinventory
- Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS)
https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datasets?page=1&keywords=ML2H2O_00
