
World Bank Climate Change Knowledge Portal: This resource provides temperature and precipitation information at the national and regional levels. It also organizes climate information by watershed, which water resource managers will find helpful. Information is available for historical and future projections. It also permits users to download the climate data. Country profiles, with detailed information on climate change impacts and vulnerability to natural hazards, are also available for some countries in the region.
Climdex: This resource allows users to explore multiple indices for precipitation and temperature extremes (e.g. highest high temperature, greatest precipitation over a five-day period). Users can select information from individual stations or from gridded datasets. This tool is useful for practitioners interested in extremes, including agricultural and ecosystems managers, public health practitioners, and infrastructure and energy sector specialists. The tool also provides detailed descriptions of different indices, and in some cases allows users to set index thresholds (i.e. number of times a variable exceeds a particular threshold). The tool also provides for user-defined thresholds (that is, you can look up information on how many times a variable exceeded a particular threshold you set).
IRI Maproom: This resource allows users to explore multiple indices for precipitation and temperature extremes (e.g. highest high temperature, greatest precipitation over a five-day period). Users can select information from individual stations or from gridded datasets throughout the world. This tool is useful for practitioners interested in extremes, including agricultural and ecosystems managers, public health practitioners, and infrastructure and energy sector specialists. The tool also provides detailed descriptions of the different indices. The tool also provides for user-defined thresholds (that is, you can look up information on how many times a variable exceeded a particular threshold you set).
IPCC Data Distribution Center: This resource is from the IPCC, the intergovernmental group tasked with producing global climate assessments. The resource contains modelled data from the most recent assessment report, including regional information on temperature and precipitation. The resource also contains a guide on how to use the data and tools for visualizing climate variables.
NCAR Climate Inspector: This guide allows users to visualize temperature and precipitation changes on interactive online maps.
Climate Scenarios: This tool allows users to explore the climate change scenarios, and learn about how they’re constructed.
Climate Engine by Google: This online mapping tool based on google maps allows users to visualize changing risks for wildfire, drought, and impacts on agriculture & ecosystems. It allows users access to remotely sensed and reanalysis data.
Aqueduct by WRI: This resource maps water resource availability, allowing users to explore changes to water availability at regional levels.
Climate Inspector: This resource uses climate datasets to create interactive online maps that allow users to explore local and regional changes to temperature and precipitation under different emissions scenarios.
GFDL AR5 Repository: This resource provides modelled climate data from the GFDL climate model. In addition to projections of climate variables, the resource also provides information related to ecosystem impacts, including vegetation and soil.
CCAF Data Portal: This resource provides downscaled data for multiple regions, using various downscaling techniques. The modelled datasets are also accompanied by detailed descriptions of the specific downscaling techniques used.
CMIP5 Data Center: In order to use this resource you first need to create a user profile. This resources provides access to modeled data from multiple models in the CMIP5 ensemble, with options to select data focusing on different variables or realms (i.e. land, ocean, sea ice). The resource also provides data from the ongoing work for the CMIP6—the next phase of the project that compares GCM outputs.