Open Educational Resources by School

Open textbooks on Physical Oceanography, Climate Modeling and Earth Systems are available at no cost to students or instructors.

A landmark new report by hundreds of the world’s top climate scientists is a clarion call for immediate action to slash greenhouse gases in the face of unprecedented and accelerating climate change, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said today.

MIT's Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences department offers an extensive series of online courses. Courses generally include lecture videos, assignments, exams, and more.

The interactive web-based simulation activity illustrates principles of global warming and climate change due to natural and human caused factors.

Over 5,000 high quality visualization around earth and space science by NASA and partner institutions.

This is a series of interactive visualizations that show how some of the key indicators of climate change have changed in Earth's recent history.

The NTRS has been a valuable resource for students, educators, researchers, and the public for access to NASA's current and historical technical literature since it was first released in 1994.

Climate Data Online (CDO) provides free access to NCDC's archive of global historical weather and climate data in addition to station history information. These data include quality controlled daily, monthly, seasonal, and yearly measurements of temperature, precipitation, wind, and degree days as well as radar data and 30-year Climate Normals.

The GOSIC Portal provides convenient, central, one-stop access to data and information identified by the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) and the Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS) and their partner programs, such as the Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) and regional observing systems, such as the GOOS Regional Alliances (GRA).

Cal-Adapt has been designed to provide access to data and information that has been, and continues to be, produced by the State's scientific and research community. The data available in this site offer a view of how climate change might affect California at the local level. Here you can work with visualization tools, access data, and participate in community sharing to contribute your own knowledge.

Click on each dataset name to expand and view more details. Information generally includes a description of each dataset, links to related tools, FTP access, and downloadable samples.

The World Data System is an interdisciplinary body of the International Science Council working to provide universal, equitable access to data around the world. WDS members are part of a collaborative effort to create a globally interoperable data system that incorporates emerging technologies and stewardship practices to ensure the long term preservation, accessibility, and usability of archived data.

Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Keywords are a hierarchical set of controlled Earth Science vocabularies that help ensure Earth science data, services, and variables are described in a consistent and comprehensive manner and allow for the precise searching of metadata and subsequent retrieval of data, services, and variables. Initiated over twenty years ago, GCMD Keywords are periodically analyzed for relevancy and will continue to be refined and expanded in response to user needs.