Maps & Data

The Interactive Data Visualization tool gives users a way to explore the abundance of different gases at more than 200 sampling sites around the world.

Historical records of U.S. temperature and precipitation as graphs, giving you a way to see how they have changed over time.

Global surface temperature anomaly maps, available at the NOAA Climate at a Glance website, based on the 1981-2010 mean.

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.