BALTEX Data Bases and other accessible Data Bases relevant for BALTEX research

This page will compile a comprehensive list of accessible meteorological, climatological, hydrological, oceanographical and environmental data from the entire Baltic Sea basin. Some data are easily accessible through the linked web sites, others require a registration procedure. The list is just being set up and constanly growing, and any suggestions for new links are welcome (send to baltex@gkss.de).

The BALTEX Data Centres

• BALTEX Meteorological Data Center (BMDC) (see also below at WDCC)
• BALTEX Hydrological Data Center (BHDC)
• BALTEX Radar Data Center (BRDC)
• Oceanographic Data Center for BALTEX (ODCB) at SMHI

Meteorological and climatological data

World Data Center for Climate (WDCC)
The WDCC provides web-browser access mainly to climate model data. The "Browse Experiment" option provides tree-like access to global and regional model data. Data of potential BALTEX interest can be obtained directly from the following WDCC server:

• BALTEX (Baltex Meteorological Data Centre (BMDC); Status 31.03.2003)
• CLM_regional_climate_model_runs (The climate version of the local model (CLM) of the DWD was used to simulate the regional climate of the 20th century (1960-2000) and 21st century (2001-2100) in Europe.)
• Webportal of IPCC data
• IPCC-DDC (The IPCC Data Distribution Centre privides access to selected monthly means from climate model scenario calculations for the last three assessment reports): AR2 / AR3 / AR4
• IPCC_HH (IPCC-Hamburg Climate Model Simulations provides access to results from a set of four scenarios families (A1, A2, B1, B2) which have been calculated with the EHAM5/MPI-OM global earth system model.)
• REMO-UBA (REMO-Simulations on 10km horizontal resolution: Three high resolution regional IPCC scenarios (A2, A1B and B1) for Germany, Austria and Switzerland have been performed using the regional climate model REMO driven by results from the coupled ocean atmosphere model ECHAM5-MPIOM.)
• Webportal of CEOP GCM Data Archive
• CEOP-I (see also below). CEOP-I means Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period. CEOP-I is an effort to address some of the critical aspects of the climate system involving land areas in particular over a 2 year period beginning in mid-2001 and ending December 2004. It will focus on two overall issues: water and energy fluxes and reservoirs over land areas, monsoonal circulations)
• Webportal of ENSEMBELS GCM Data Archive
• ENSEMBLES (see also below). The ENSEMBLES GCM data archive contains presently the first data stream (2006) of data of scenarios which mostly were calculated for the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4). Stored are global GCM scenario data, monthly mean and daily mean values in netCDF-format for these emission scenarios: SRESA2, SRESA1B, SRESB1, 1PCTTO2x, 1PCTTO4X, 20C3M.

Data access is free for BALTEX scientists. A user account can be obtained by sending an e-mail request to data(at)dkrz.de and specifying name, institute and at least E-mail adress of scientist. Additionally, BALTEX and the scientific project is requested to classify data downloads for internal WDCC user statistics.

UNIDART
The Uniform Data Request Interface Programme, UNIDART, is financed by EUMETNET. The main goal of the project is the development of uniform web services to access meteorological data stored in distributed and heterogeneous data sources. If the web services are deployed at the site of a meteorological data provider, then a broker system can mediate the handling of data requests between users and this data provider. Such a broker system is WebWerdis, the Weather Request and Distribution System of DWD. BALTEX scientists and researchers can apply for a WebWerdis account. For registration to this "one-stop-shop", send an email to the Baltex secretariat (baltex(at)gkss.de) if you are already a registered user of BALTEX databases. For registration as new BALTEX data user, please follow the procedure given here.

Coordinated Enhanced Observation Period (CEOP)
CEOP (Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period) is an element of WCRP-GEWEX and seeks to establish a global observing system for the water cycle.

• Access to CEOP data (in-situ, satellite and model output)
• In-situ data from 16 reference sites worldwide for EOP1 (pilot phase: July to September 2001)
• In-situ data from more than 30 reference sites worldwide for EOP3/4 (October 2002 to December 2004)

ENSEMBLES RT2B: Production of regional climate scenarios for Impact Assessments
Web site of the Research Theme 2B of the EU FP6 Project ENSEMBLES to develop an ensemble prediction system for climate change.
Data from regional climate modelling can be obtained from DMI, Copenhagen contacting RT2B coordinators www.cru.uea.ac.uk/projects/ensemblesrt2b/
Important note: Both data archives, global and regional, are not in final state. Data collection and quality assurance has not finished.

ENSEMBLES RT3

PRUDENCE

The Climate Explorer
Web data interface for worldwide climatological data; by the KNMI (Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute). Data from the BALTEX area available.

"Poor man´s re-analysis over Europe"
by Peter Berg and Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen (from the FP6 project WATCH)

Oceanographic data

The Finnish Institute for Marine Research (FIMR)
Sea ice maps, data on hydrography, ocean color, algal distributions, actual and partly archieved BMP monitoring data

The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency
Marine data (satellite SST, color, hydrography, MARNET Monitoring data) and a variety of charts and maps

FIMR Polar View Products
Polar view, ice forecasts, ice thickness charts

AMSR-E Sea Ice Concentration for the Baltic Sea
AMSR satellite data on sea ice concentration, daily updated in winter

Modis Rapid Response System
Modis Satellite data

Hydrological data

The Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC)
World-wide depository of discharge data and associated metadata (small handling fee may by charged)

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