Reference websites

 

Data & Images

NASA visible Earth: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/

 

Remote sensing data

Sea Surface Temperature: http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/sst/

 

Ocean topography (Sea Surface Height): Topex/Poseidon

http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/toppos/

http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/tpssa/

 

 

Precipitation: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/global_precip/html/

 

ENSO and SOI:

http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/data/indices/index.html

 

Places

International geographical data

GIS data from the United Nations: http://www.grid.unep.ch/data/index.php

 

Information on nomenclature of territorial units for statistics - NUTS: http://europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat/ramon/nuts/home_regions_en.html

 

Chesapeake Bay: http://www.cbos.org/

 

Mexico

Secretaría de Salud (SSA): http://www.ssa.gob.mx

 

El Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informatica (INEGI): http://www.inegi.gob.mx/

 

United Kingdom

Agricultural data: http://www.defra.gov.uk

 

National statistics and UK demographic data: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/geography/maps.asp

 

Ordnance survey and UK maps: http://www.ordsvy.gov.uk/