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541 assets from 19 organizations

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153 of 541 assets

  • Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetobservational / measurement

    CloudSat 1B-CPR product: backscattered power as a function of distance from the 94 GHz Cloud Profiling Radar, release P_R05 in NetCDF, with 12 geolocation and 22 data fields, covering the full mission except anomalies and maneuver gaps.

  • Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetreference / derived product

    CloudSat 2B-CLDCLASS-LIDAR product combining CloudSat CPR and CALIPSO lidar measurements to classify cloud layers into types such as stratus, cumulus, nimbostratus, altocumulus, altostratus and deep convective clouds, with cloud phase;…

  • Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetobservational / measurement

    CloudSat 2B-GEOPROF product identifying the vertical levels with significant radar echo from hydrometeors and estimating the radar reflectivity factor, with a MODIS cloud mask; release P1_R05 in NetCDF and HDF-EOS.

  • Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetreference / derived product

    CloudSat and CALIPSO Ice Cloud Property Product (2C-ICE) with retrieved ice water content, effective radius and extinction coefficient and ice water path; release P1_R05 in NetCDF.

  • Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetreference / derived product

    CloudSat 2C-PRECIP-COLUMN product determining the presence and intensity of surface precipitation from CloudSat Profiling Radar observations, with path-integrated attenuation and near-surface reflectivity; release P1_R05 in NetCDF.

  • Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (NTIA ITS)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetobservational / measurement

    5G Aerial RF Radiation Data: measured airborne radiation patterns around 5G MIMO gNodeB base station transmitters, published by ITS on GitHub.

  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetreference / derived product

    NOAA Annual Greenhouse Gas Index (AGGI), measuring the climate-warming influence of long-lived trace gases and its change over time; the 2024 AGGI of 1.54 means added heating from long-lived greenhouse gases rose 54% since 1990.

  • National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools

    softwarelibrary / tool

    Atmospheric Sounding Processing ENvironment: cross-platform (Linux, macOS, Windows) quality control and analysis of dropsonde and upsonde sounding data, with automatic QC, tabular/graphical displays, WMO message coding and transmission,…

  • Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetobservational / measurement

    Geolocated land-ice surface heights (above the WGS 84 ellipsoid) with quality parameters, from the ATLAS laser altimeter on the ICESat-2 observatory, 14 October 2018 to 2 March 2025, with centimeter-scale precision along 40 m ground-track…

  • Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Data & Digital Tools

    softwaremodel / simulation

    AVS Lab astrodynamics simulation framework for spacecraft guidance, dynamics and control, installable from PyPI (bsk wheels, with MuJoCo and optional optical navigation) or buildable from source with C++ modules; container images on GHCR…

  • Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Data & Digital Tools

    softwarelibrary / tool

    Self-contained Python wheel giving external projects what they need to build Basilisk-compatible SWIG extensions (C/C++, Rust, Numba and Python modules) without vendoring the full simulator, with CMake helpers and an ABI/version…

  • Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Data & Digital Tools

    softwarelibrary / tool

    Open-source Unity project for Vizard, the companion 3D visualization app for Basilisk simulations (spacecraft, celestial bodies, actuators, instruments, orbit lines, pointing vectors, keep-out cones), buildable for macOS, Windows and…

  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetreference / derived product

    Binary DataBase of Profiles (BDBP): trace gas and aerosol profiles with almost global coverage from high vertical resolution measurements, provided on latitude, longitude, altitude, pressure and equivalent-latitude grids (1 km steps, 70…

  • BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetreference / derived product

    BioServe flight history: hundreds of science payloads designed, built and operated on over 110 spaceflight missions across eight spacecraft types (Shuttle, Progress, Soyuz, HTV, Dragon, Cygnus, Orion and New Shepard).

  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetobservational / measurement

    Boulder climate and weather records from NOAA PSL: daily weather data from 1897, daily observations of temperature, rainfall and snow from 1947, and monthly mean, maximum and minimum temperatures from 1893, plus climatologies and records.

  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetobservational / measurement

    Near real-time plot of geomagnetic field fluctuations at the Boulder magnetometer station for SWPC forecasters.

  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    standardreference data / spectrum

    WMO CO2 X2019 calibration scale for CO2 in air, applied retroactively to all NOAA calibrations, with a strict calibration hierarchy for traceability and published scale-transfer uncertainties.

  • National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetmodel output / reanalysis

    100-member CESM2 ensemble at 1-degree resolution for 1850–2100 under CMIP6 historical and SSP370 forcing, with two biomass-burning forcing variants and AMOC-based initial-state design for ensemble spread; includes extended "MOAR" output…

  • National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetmodel output / reanalysis

    10-member CESM2 (1-degree) ensemble in which eastern tropical Pacific SST anomalies are nudged to ERSSTv5 observations over 1880–2019, so the observed ENSO evolution is maintained while the rest of the coupled climate evolves freely…

  • National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetmodel output / reanalysis

    CAM-chem simulation output at 0.9x1.25 degree resolution with 56 vertical levels and MERRA2-specified dynamics, intended as chemical boundary conditions for regional modeling; 6-hourly from January 2001 (netCDF).

  • Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Data & Digital Tools

    softwarelibrary / tool

    Repository for the "CIRA Guide to Custom Loss Functions for Neural Networks in Environmental Sciences", with Python examples; BSD 2-Clause License.

  • National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools

    softwaremodel / simulation

    NSF NCAR's community-developed Earth system model providing state-of-the-art computer simulations of the Earth system; rooted in the 1983 atmosphere model, with land, ocean and sea-ice components added in the mid-1990s and community…

  • Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools

    standardreference data / spectrum

    Composite time series of daily full-disk integrated solar irradiance at 121–122 nm (dominated by H I 121.6 nm) from multiple instruments and models, scaled to SORCE SOLSTICE reference levels at 1 AU; version 4, 1947 to present.

  • Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetpaper-linked research data

    CU Scholar dataset for two tests: a static-target test with raw files from Google Pixel 6 smartphones and a dynamic drone test with two .mat files generated from raw smartphone data, plus MATLAB scripts that compute the solutions (Ryan,…

  • Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Data & Digital Tools

    softwarelibrary / tool

    Container environment (Dockerfile multistage build) that obtains and builds EMOSLIB, ecCodes and FFTW for working with the ECMWF Nature Run (ECO1280) data files.

  • Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Data & Digital Tools

    softwarelibrary / tool

    mini_cfg, a minimal, dependency-free Python library for storing configuration information in dataclasses without assumptions about code structure; MIT License.

  • Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Data & Digital Tools

    softwarelibrary / tool

    tcprimedapi, a CIRA API that pulls TC PRIMED tropical cyclone files based on user requests; BSD-3-Clause license.

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetpaper-linked research data

    Figure data (MATLAB files) for an Applied Optics paper describing a compact frequency-comb optical time-transfer and ranging node (14 L, 10 kg, 46 W) tested over a 4.4 km free-space testbed, showing potential for sub-femtosecond clock…

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetpaper-linked research data

    Figure data supporting the manuscript on a time-programmable frequency comb and its application to quantum-limited dual-comb ranging (arXiv 2205.01147), from NIST's Spectrum Technology and Research Division.

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetpaper-linked research data

    Data showing increased instantaneous bandwidth of Rydberg-atom RF receivers using a probe optical frequency comb and two-photon EIT on the cesium 56D5/2 state, with modulation sidebands read on each comb tooth (supports arXiv 2402.17942).

  • Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetobservational / measurement

    Deep sky imagery from the 0.6 m SITH telescope at the VADeR Observatory, including observations at ~11:20 UTC on April 9, 2026 of the Artemis 2 Integrity spacecraft returning to Earth after its lunar flyby.

  • Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools

    softwarelibrary / tool

    A package from Earth Lab and the North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center for downloading downscaled past and future climate data (MACA Version 2) through a USGS API, and organizing it for visualization and analysis.

  • Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools

    softwarelibrary / tool

    An Earth Lab package that simplifies plotting and manipulating raster and vector spatial data: stacking and cropping bands, masking clouds, plotting RGB images, bands and histograms, and calculating vegetation indices and hillshades. Built…

  • Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools

    softwarelibrary / tool

    A command-line tool that classifies fire events from the Collection 6 MODIS Burned Area Product. A user-set space-time window groups burn detections into discrete events, and the tool outputs data tables and shapefiles of event and daily…

  • Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetmodel output / reanalysis

    ECMWF Nature Run (ECO1280) hosted by CIRA/CSU: a single uninterrupted 14-month (10248-h) forecast on the 9-km cubic octahedral O1280 grid made with IFS cycle 43r1 of the operational ECMWF global model; researchers request an account from…

  • Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools

    standardmodel standardHistorical

    A magnetic model compiled from satellite, marine, aeromagnetic and ground surveys. EMM2017 includes ESA Swarm satellite data and a crustal field from EMAG2-v3 at 2-arcminute resolution (degree and order 790), is valid 2000–2022, and comes…

  • National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools

    softwaremodel / simulation

    Repository for the Community Atmosphere Model, with officially supported branches for the CESM2.2 and CESM2.1 CAM releases and an unsupported development branch; components are managed with git-fleximod.

  • Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetobservational / measurement

    Event camera recordings of satellites, such as a sidereally tracked recording of the mirror-covered geodesy satellite Ajisai glinting in ~10 millisecond flashes, and two GEO satellites (AMC21 and Galaxy 30) collected with a 0.2 m…

  • Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetobservational / measurement

    Spreadsheet of Mars upper-atmosphere densities measured by the ExoMars TGO accelerometer during aerobraking (from 8 Sept 2017), with altitude, local solar time, latitude/longitude, MarsGRAM05 model densities, 5 s and 40 s-smoothed measured…

  • Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetpaper-linked research data

    Figure data (data.zip) for a JGR-Planets paper by D. J. Scheeres on how particle ejection contributes to the rotational acceleration and orbit evolution of asteroid Bennu; the landing page has no abstract.

  • Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetreference / derived product

    Event-level and daily-level fire polygons for Argentina from the FIRED (fire event delineation) product, November 2000 to December 2024. Derived from the MODIS MCD64A1 burned area product with the firedpy algorithm, using 5-pixel/3-day and…

  • Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetpaper-linked research data

    Data files and plotting scripts (MATLAB or IDL format) supporting a Journal of Geophysical Research article on lidar observations of quasi-biennial-oscillation-induced interannual variations of gravity wave potential energy density at…

  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    softwareoperational forecast product

    SWPC Geospace Geomagnetic Activity Plot showing real-time solar wind propagated from L1 to the University of Michigan Geospace model boundary and the model forecasts of Kp and Dst compared with observed values.

  • United States Geological Survey National Civil Applications Center (USGS NCAC)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetobservational / measurement

    Global Fiducials Library: a long-term archive of images from U.S. National Imagery Systems giving a periodic record of selected scientifically important sites, covering ocean processes, ice and snow dynamics, atmospheric processes, land…

  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    softwareoperational forecast product

    GloTEC global total electron content model output, indicating possible GNSS outages and reductions in HF communications, with real-time data available in NetCDF and JSON.

  • Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)Data & Digital Tools

    softwarelibrary / tool

    CU Boulder's open-source software-defined radio collection: code bases for processing GNSS signals (GPS, GAL, GLO and BDS folders), with sample data sets.

  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetobservational / measurement

    GOES X-ray flux plots of 1-minute averages of solar X-rays in the 0.05–0.4 and 0.1–0.8 nm bands, used to track solar flares that can black out HF radio on the sunlit side of Earth; archive files on the SWPC warehouse FTP.

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    standardreference data / spectrum

    ILThermo (v2.0), NIST Standard Reference Database #147, a database of ionic-liquid properties; the cached page is a minimal shell with only the title and copyright line.

  • Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools

    softwareflight / ground / mission-ops software

    Component-based, model-driven framework for building reliable, reusable embedded real-time software, first developed for spacecraft flight software at LASP; models in a YAML-based DSL generate structural code, documentation, unit test…

  • Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools

    softwarelibrary / tool

    Python module to read and write NASA Common Data Format (.cdf) files without installing the NASA CDF library; the core uses only numpy and needs Python 3.9 or later.

  • Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools

    softwarelibrary / tool

    Python library for SPICE extensions and geospatial data product generation: wrappers for SPICE routines, automated SPICE kernel creation from JSON definition files, and Level-1 geospatial processing such as geolocation.

  • Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools

    softwarelibrary / tool

    Python routines for IUVS science: tools for reading and manipulating IUVS data, standardized projections of IUVS data, and integration with spiceyPy; installable from a clone with pip.

  • Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools

    softwaremodel / simulation

    Astrodynamics simulation framework with installation guides for macOS, Linux and Windows, tutorial scenarios (starting with scenarioBasicOrbit.py), support for custom modules, and an optional Vizard 3D visualization.

  • Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools

    softwarelibrary / tool

    Middleware and software library that implements the LaTiS Functional Data Model to describe and manipulate scientific datasets in a common way, with extensible readers and writers, relational-algebra operations, and a standards-based web…

  • National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools

    softwarelibrary / tool

    Core software of LROSE, the Lidar Radar Open Software Environment, a CSU–NCAR EOL cooperative project funded by NSF: libraries and applications (including the Radx library and dual-polarization apps) with RPM/DEB/Homebrew installs and…

  • National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools

    standarddata / format convention

    LROSE page listing radar/lidar data formats in native polar coordinates supported by the Radx library (read/write), and describing the standardized self-describing formats used, chiefly CfRadial (CF-convention NetCDF for radar moments) and…

  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    standardreference data / spectrum

    WMO X2004A calibration scale for methane, expanded to a nominal 300–5000 ppb range with a multi-point calibration strategy and updated historical calibrations; based on primary standards prepared in 1991–1995.

  • National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools

    softwaremodel / simulation

    Global model on a variable-resolution hexagonal (honeycomb) mesh that allows storm-resolving resolution where needed and coarser resolution elsewhere; NSF NCAR leads the atmospheric component, with community partners on ocean, land-ice and…

  • National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools

    softwaremodel / simulation

    Data Assimilation Research Testbed: an open-source community facility for ensemble data assimilation supporting most NSF NCAR community models and many observation types, developed by CISL's Data Assimilation Research Section (DAReS).

  • National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools

    softwaremodel / simulation

    GPU-resident, parallelized large-eddy simulation (LES) model from NCAR's Research Applications Laboratory for accelerated, turbulence-resolving modeling of the atmospheric boundary layer, aimed at microscale and multiscale weather…

  • National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools

    softwarelibrary / tool

    Visualization and Analysis Platform for Ocean, Atmosphere, and Solar Researchers: interactive 3D visualization with animations, a progressive-access data model (VDC) for terascale data on commodity hardware, direct import of WRF, MOM, POP,…

  • National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools

    softwarelibrary / tool

    Python package of 30+ diagnostic calculations, interpolation routines and plotting utilities (cartopy, basemap, PyNGL) for WRF-ARW model output, similar in function to the NCL WRF package; installable from conda-forge.

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    standardtime / measurement standard

    NIST's cesium fountain primary frequency standards: NIST-F4 (under evaluation, approaching 10^-16 accuracy) and NIST-F3 (a high-uptime stable reference with drift below 10^-17/day), successors to NIST-F1/F2; laser-cooled cesium atoms…

  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    standarddata / format convention

    NOAA Space Weather Scales communicating current and future space weather conditions and their effects on people and systems, with five-level scales for geomagnetic storms (G), solar radiation storms (S) and radio blackouts (R), each with…

  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    softwarelibrary / tool

    MATS (Model Analysis Tool Suite) from NOAA GSL, a quick and versatile way to view model verification metrics, built with the Meteor Framework and deployed with Docker.

  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    softwarelibrary / tool

    Rocoto Workflow Management System from NOAA GSL for running large numbers of scientific workflow tasks on batch systems.

  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    softwaremodel / simulation

    Coupled NEMS application for WAM-IPE space weather modeling from NOAA SWPC, combining the WAM and IPE components with SWIO and DATAPOLL builds.

  • Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools

    softwarelibrary / tool

    A toolkit that lets operations staff and data producers create metadata files conforming to NASA’s Common Metadata Repository UMM-G specification and ingest data directly into NASA EOSDIS’s Cumulus archive.

  • Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools

    softwarelibrary / tool

    A Python library to search, download and access laser altimetry data from (pre-)Operation IceBridge and ICESat/GLAS datasets, with ITRF transformations so datasets can be compared.

  • Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools

    softwarelibrary / tool

    Source code and configuration for building the QGreenland Core zip package, a free GIS mapping tool for Greenland-focused research, teaching, decision making and collaboration. It combines key datasets in an all-in-one analysis and…

  • Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (NTIA ITS)Data & Digital Tools

    softwaremodel / simulation

    U.S. implementation of the Irregular Lunar Model (ILM), shared as an active workspace for the 2024 ITU-R Study Group 3 discussions; its releases have not undergone ITS standard quality review.

  • Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (NTIA ITS)Data & Digital Tools

    softwaremodel / simulation

    ITS Irregular Terrain Model (ITM), predicting terrestrial radiowave propagation from 20 MHz to 20 GHz from electromagnetic theory and the Longley-Rice empirical models; a C++ code base functionally identical to FORTRAN version 1.2.2, with…

  • Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (NTIA ITS)Data & Digital Tools

    softwaremodel / simulation

    U.S. reference implementation of Recommendation ITU-R P.528 for propagation path loss predictions for aeronautical mobile and radionavigation services in the VHF, UHF and SHF bands, buildable as a C++ library with a C#/.NET wrapper.

  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetobservational / measurement

    Observation Package (ObsPack) data products that bring together direct atmospheric greenhouse gas measurements from national and university laboratories, packaged and freely distributed to support carbon cycle modeling studies.

  • Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetpaper-linked research data

    Two-line-element orbital data for cataloged objects between 200 and 650 km, with MSISE00 density ratios between Kp=1 and Kp=6- conditions, B* statistics and orbital track error after 1.5, 3, 18 and 72 hours; associated with the article…

  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetobservational / measurement

    Planetary K-index (Kp), the 3-hour-range index from 13 geomagnetic observatories at 44–60° geomagnetic latitude, used by SWPC to characterize geomagnetic storms and decide on alerts and warnings; observed values available as chart JSON.

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    standardreference data / spectrum

    NIST Reference Fluid Thermodynamic and Transport Properties Database (REFPROP) Version 10: 147 pure fluids, 5 pseudo-pure fluids and mixtures of up to 20 components, using high-accuracy Helmholtz, MBWR and other equations of state plus…

  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    softwareoperational forecast product

    Relativistic Electron Forecast Model (REFM) plot showing about 30 days of observed and forecast daily >2 MeV electron fluence at geosynchronous orbit, to anticipate damaging relativistic electron events.

  • Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetreference / derived product

    Quick-look sea ice extent and concentration images (PNG) and data values (GeoTIFF and ASCII text) for the Arctic and Antarctic from November 1978 to the present, including trends and anomalies against a 1981–2010 reference period; daily…

  • Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetreference / derived product

    CU Sea Level Research Group global mean sea level (GMSL) release 2026_rel2 with seasonal signals removed, updated through 2026.5, downloadable as an ASCII time series with PDF and EPS plots.

  • Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetmodel output / reanalysis

    Model output, processed data and analysis files from a global simulation (1901–2025) with the SiBCASA-Hg land surface model, which couples terrestrial mercury cycling with carbon, water, energy, vegetation and soil processes. The files…

  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetobservational / measurement

    Real-time in situ solar wind magnetic field, plasma and energetic particle data from spacecraft upwind of Earth at L1 (ACE since 1998, DSCOVR since 2016, IMAP I-ALiRT and SOLAR-1 from 2026), used by SWPC forecasters to watch for…

  • Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetobservational / measurement

    Daily average total solar irradiance (TSI) measured by the LASP Total Irradiance Monitor (TIM) aboard the SORCE spacecraft since early 2003; absolute accuracy about 350 ppm, with relative changes measured to less than 10 ppm/yr.

  • Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools

    softwareflight / ground / mission-ops software

    Python package for decoding CCSDS telemetry packets according to an XTCE packet structure definition, based on the UML model of the XTCE specification; installable from PyPI or the lasp Anaconda channel, with an optional spp CLI.

  • Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetobservational / measurement

    Horizontal wind speed and direction profiles retrieved with a VAD algorithm from conical scans by the CLAMPS2 Halo Streamline XR+ Doppler lidar (PPI scans at 60° elevation every 5 minutes), in 24-hour netCDF files, collected during the…

  • Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetobservational / measurement

    Daily files from a Vaisala CL31 ceilometer deployed at Roaring Judy in the East River Watershed, Colorado (21 October 2021 to 28 January 2022), during the NOAA SPLASH campaign. Files contain backscatter profiles, cloud base heights and…

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    standardcertified reference material (SRM)

    Set of 4340 alloy steel Charpy specimens for indirect verification of Charpy impact machines with an 8 mm striker per ASTM E23 and ISO 148-2; certified absorbed energy (traceable to the SI joule) is issued by NIST in a verification report…

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    standardcertified reference material (SRM)

    Set of 4340 alloy steel Charpy specimens for indirect verification of Charpy impact machines with an 8 mm striker per ASTM E23 and ISO 148-2; certified absorbed energy (traceable to the SI joule) is issued by NIST in a verification report…

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    standardcertified reference material (SRM)

    Set of 4340 alloy steel Charpy specimens for indirect verification of Charpy impact machines with an 8 mm striker per ASTM E23 and ISO 148-2; certified absorbed energy (traceable to the SI joule) is issued by NIST in a verification report…

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    standardcertified reference material (SRM)

    Fiber artifact (bare single-mode fiber in an aluminum housing, serial-numbered) for calibrating direct far-field scanning systems that measure mode-field diameter at 1.31 µm and 1.55 µm, certified by the TIA direct far-field method with…

  • Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetobservational / measurement

    CCAR Sea Level Explorer: an interactive map comparing satellite altimetry and tide gauge sea level time series at any location, with detrend, deseason and smoothing options; the plotted data can be downloaded.

  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetmodel output / reanalysis

    NOAA-CIRES-DOE Twentieth Century Reanalysis (20CR): a four-dimensional global atmospheric dataset of weather from 1806 to 2015 built from surface pressure observations with an ensemble data assimilation system; V3 gives 8-times-daily…

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    softwarelibrary / tool

    ThermoData Engine (TDE) generates critically evaluated thermodynamic and transport property data for pure compounds, binary and ternary mixtures and reactions from the SOURCE database and prediction schemes, with full provenance, model…

  • Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetobservational / measurement

    Historical tide gauge sea level measurements: gauges on piers measure sea level relative to a nearby geodetic benchmark, and the records indicate global sea level rose roughly 10–25 cm over the past century.

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetreference / derived product

    Monthly NIST Time and Frequency Bulletin (PDF, January 1997 to present; 2013 onward shown) with notes on the NIST time scale, primary standards and services, leap-second and UT1−UTC information, and UTC−UTC(NIST) and UTC(USNO)−UTC(NIST)…

  • Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetobservational / measurement

    Daily averages of full-disk solar ultraviolet irradiance from the Solar EUV Experiment (SEE) on the NASA TIMED mission, in 1 nm bins from 0.5 to 194.5 nm, with uncertainties included; this level is filtered to remove flares (Level 3a…

  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    datasetreference / derived product

    Monthly mean atmospheric carbon dioxide at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii, the longest record of direct CO2 measurements, with growth rates and global trends for CO2, CH4, N2O and SF6.

  • Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools

    standardreference data / spectrum

    Version 2 of the TSIS-1 Hybrid Solar Reference Spectrum, a solar-minimum (cycles 24/25) reference spectrum from 202 to 2730 nm built by normalizing high-resolution solar line data to the TSIS-1 SIM and CSIM irradiance scale; the original…

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    softwarelibrary / tool

    Data acquisition program for NIST transition-edge-sensor (TES) microcalorimeters, replacing ndfb_server and matter; written in Go, built with a Makefile, and supporting TDM systems (Lancero device) on Ubuntu.

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    softwarelibrary / tool

    Python suite for analyzing pulse records from high-resolution cryogenic microcalorimeters (x-ray and gamma-ray spectrometers): TDM and microwave-multiplexed data, cuts, optimal filtering, line-shape fitting and absolute energy calibration;…

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    softwarelibrary / tool

    Collection of wrappers for calling the NIST REFPROP shared library (a compiled FORTRAN DLL) from Python, MATLAB, Excel, LabVIEW, C/C++, C#, Mathematica and other environments; contributions welcome.

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools

    standardtime / measurement standard

    UTC(NIST), NIST's realization of Coordinated Universal Time and the official time for the United States under the America COMPETES Act, with NIST and USNO as official U.S. timekeepers; built since the 1960s and used by stock exchanges and…

  • National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools

    standarddata / format convention

    EOL reference overview (Vömel, 2025; DOI 10.26023/S2SX-K278) of the main saturation vapor pressure equations over liquid water and ice (e.g., Goff-Gratch, WMO/CIMO, Hyland-Wexler, Hardy, Buck, Sonntag, Magnus-Tetens, Bolton), with…

  • National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools

    softwaremodel / simulation

    Mesoscale numerical weather prediction system for research and operations, with two dynamical cores and a data-assimilation system, spanning tens of meters to thousands of kilometers; extensions include WRF-Chem, WRF-Hydro, WRF-Fire,…

  • Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools

    softwareflight / ground / mission-ops software

    Browser-based, multi-mission tool (Web-based Telemetry, Checking, Analysis, and Display) for ad-hoc visualization and analysis of spacecraft and instrument telemetry, including searching, filtering, plotting, limit checking and trending,…

  • National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools

    softwaremodel / simulation

    Comprehensive numerical model from the surface to the thermosphere, runnable with active or specified land, ocean and ice; WACCM-X extends it to the upper thermosphere and ionosphere, bridging weather and climate to space weather.

  • Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools

    standardreference data / spectrum

    Solar irradiance reference spectra for the 2008 Whole Heliosphere Interval (Carrington Rotation 2068), at 0.1 nm intervals, for three periods (moderately low activity with sunspot blocking, with faculae brightening, and a quiet-Sun…

  • Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools

    standardmodel standard

    The standard model for navigation, attitude and heading referencing systems that use the geomagnetic field, also used in civilian navigation. Updated every five years; the current WMM2025 was released December 17, 2024 and expires December…

  • Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools

    standardmodel standard

    An advanced geomagnetic field model, more detailed than the WMM, with core field and secular variation coefficients for degrees 1–15 plus crustal field through degree 133 (18,210 non-zero coefficients). NGA recommends that all DoD systems…

  • Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools

    softwareoperational forecast product

    A large-scale, physics-based model of the inner heliosphere that the Space Weather Forecast Office uses to give 1–4 days’ advance warning of solar wind structures and Earth-directed coronal mass ejections. It couples the WSA near-Sun…

  • National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools

    softwarelibrary / tool

    RAF post-flight plotting program (Mac, Linux) for displaying 2D images from PMS2D and other optical array probes, developed in the 1990s for quick-look data review.