Access to paleoclimate records extending back thousands or millions of years, including descriptive information and explanatory notes, maps, searches, visualizations, and more.

The Drought Risk Atlas provides historic data about drought for weather stations across the United States that have at least 40 years of records.

Climatologists use historical and current climate and weather data make climate predictions for temperature and precipitation in the future. These outlook products are different from weather forecasts.

Daily GHCN summaries answer questions such as, what were the high and low temperatures at a station on a specific day; how much did it rain last Wednesday; or how much snow was on the ground on a recent date?

This tool generates bar graphs showing monthly extent of sea ice in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere, or for the entire globe.

Data from the IBTrACS database for more than 6,000 global tropical cyclones allows users to interactively study past hurricanes, looking at position, wind speed, and pressure.

Time series of global surface temperatures for land, ocean, or land and ocean combined compared to long-term climate averages.

View maps of average monthly wind speed and direction for the contiguous United States from 1979 to the present.

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Fish nursery. Bird sanctuary. Storm surge blocker. Maryland’s Blackwater Marsh Wildlife Refuge is all those things and more. And it could be completely underwater by the end of this century. A team of ecologists and climate experts is determined to find and conserve migration corridors for the critical wetland ecosystem.