Geoscience Reference
In-Depth Information
Appendix A
Web Resources for Software
and Data
This appendix gives information about sources of data and modelling software that can be downloaded
from the web, organised by chapter. All sources were checked at the time of completing this edition but
addresses and content might change over time. With a few exceptions where software is a commercial
product, the sources can be freely downloaded. Some require registration as a user or are restricted for
use in non-commercial activities in education and research. No particular recommendation is intended
by mention here. I have not been a direct user of most of the data sets or packages mentioned.
Chapter 3 Data for Rainfall-Runoff Modelling
ASTER DEM The 30m ASTER global topographic data (and other NASA satellite products) can
be retrieved from the NASA Warehouse Inventory Search Tool (WIST) at https://wist.echo.nasa.gov/
wist/api/imswelcome/.
CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS UKCP09 projections of change in various climate parameters for the
UK are derived from an ensemble of regional climate model projections and expressed in terms of 5, 50
and 95% probabilities of change relative to the 1961-1990 control period for the ensemble. The UKCP09
projections can be found at http://ukclimateprojections.defra.gov.uk/.
The EU Ensembles project produced climate projections at various resolutions, from the global scale
to regional scales, using an ensemble of climate models. The data are available for research purposes at
www.ensembles-eu.org.
In the USA, maps of climate projections produced by NCAR and statistical downscaling to finer
resolution can be found at www.gisclimatechange.org.
CUAHSI The US-based Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science Inc.
has been developing open source standards for exchange of data in its WaterML and CUAHSI Hydrologic
Information System (CUAHSI-HIS) that are compatible with standards set by the Open Geospatial
Consortium (OGC). CUAHSI can be found at www.cuahsi.org.
