Data

For GIS Data sets see: Branner Library GIS Data Collection and Web Sites for Digital GIS Data.

Search SOCRATES — Stanford's Web-based Catalog for data sets on cd-roms or other media that can be checked out. For best results go to Socrates' expert screen: using an everything field, type "cd or compact or disk or disks or discs or disc or diskette?" AND the subject for which you want the data. For example for earthquakes you might search "earthquake or earthquakes or seismic or seismology" in another everything field. If you retrieve too much either use subject instead of everything OR add the place that you want, for example: subject California.

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• Antarctic Meteorology Research Center (AMRC)
• Arctic Refraction Catalogue
• Association of Bay Area Governments
• Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) data archive
• BP Amoco Statistical Review of World Energy
• California. Probabalistic Seismic Hazard Map; See also Earthquake Hazards Program - Northern California
• Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) for the US DOE Global Survey of CO2 in the Oceans
• Chemistry of the Elements (incl. brief info on cmpds too, e.g. Lanthanide complexes)
• Committee on Earth Observations Satellites (CEOS) International Directory Network
• Compendium of On-Line Soil Information
• Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Handbooks & Data
• [Climate] Data Visualization and Analysis
• Climate Visualization (CLIMVIS) Includes

  Global Summary of the Day

  National Weather Service Summary of the Day

  Climate Division Precipitation, Temperature, and Drought Data

  Global Historical Climatological Network Data

  http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/
• Current Earthquake Information

  Near Real-Time Earthquake Bulletin

  Current Seismicity Maps

  Map of earthquake locations

  Current hypocenter and phase data

  Current Quick Epicenter Determinations (QED) file

• Digital Soil Survey; A Compendium of On-Line Soil Survey Information Digital map data
• Earth Observing System Data and Information System
• El Nino theme page [Includes data, images, modeling, newspaper articles, etc.]
• Electronic Material Safety Data Sheets Three files available: MDL, Sigma-Aldrich, and Canadian Center for Occupation and Health Stanford Only.
• Energy Foundation Renewable Energy Data Reports Three files available: MDL, Sigma-Aldrich, and Canadian Center for Occupation and Health Stanford Only.
• General Earthquake Information Includes:
  • Significant Earthquakes of the World
  • Largest Earthquakes in the World, 1990-1998
  • US Earthquake History, State by State
  • Largest Earthquakes in the United States
• GEOCHEMICAL EARTH REFERENCE MODEL (GERM)
• GEOROC Geochemistry of Rocks of the Oceans and Continents
• Global Change Master Directory provides descriptions of Earth science data sets relevant to global change research. Descriptions of 10,600 data sets, with links to the data or descriptions of how to find them are included.
• Gmelin handbook of inorganic and organometallic chemistry Stanford Only.
• Hazardous Substances Database (HSDB) in Toxnet
• Handbook of thermodynamic data: Branner Library Reference Collection: QE515.N38 1974.
• Kansas Geological Survey Core Library Samples: [indexed by County, Stratigraphic Horizon, and Township-Range]
• LDEO Climate Data Catalog [Catalog of datasets, with interface that allows you to make plots, tables, and files from any dataset, its subsets, or processed versions thereof]
• MINERAL — THE CSIRO/ALEPH Mineralogical Database (Nickel and Nichols): Branner Library: Workstations C & D
• NASA's Planetary Data System
• National Geochemical Data Base: Branner Library CD-ROM containing data for the conterminous United States collected during the National Uranium Resource Evaluation (NURE) Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance (HSSR) program.
• National Soil Survey Center Laboratory Research Database
• NGDC Marine Geology and Geophysics Data
• National and Regional Climate Centers
• National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
• NOAA Climate Data
• NOAAServer: Access to Distributed NOAA Data and Information[Links together more than a dozen environmental databases]
• Ocean Climate Laboratory (NOAA) [Oceanographic data, ocean climate variability]
• Oil and Gas: Data, Information, Analysis, Maps and GIS Links
• PALYDISK — American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists, Data Exchange Also available for check out:

  Bibliography of living and fossil fungi: Z6033.P2 E4 1989

  Palynologic references to the Cenozoic of the Gulf Coast: Z6033.P2 E45 1989

  ASCII file bibliography of southwestern Quaternary palynology: Z6033.P2 A8 1988

• Pennsylvania State Climatologist Program permits examination and plotting of hydrographic and tracer section data for bottle data for P, T, S, O2, NO3, PO4, and SiO3 from major trans-oceanic sections.
• Periodic Tables of Elements
• Petroleum Data from the Department of Energy
• Petroleum Data Resources
• Petrological Database of the Ocean Floor
• Plant Fossil Record (International Organization for Palaeobotany Database includes descriptions and occurrences of many thousands of extinct plants, as well as modern genera with fossil species.
• QUATERNARY DATAThe site contains links to the following databases:

  European Pollen Database.

  Global Pollen Database (GPD) The GPD contains pollen data from the Americas and northern Asia.

  University of Cambridge — Catalogue of pollen types This page introduces the list of pollen types that might be identifiable in mid- and late-Quaternary sediments of the British Isles.

  World Data Centre-A for Paleoclimatology.

  World Pollen Database The form on this page can be used to search the World Pollen Database.

• SEISMONET or Surfing the InterNet for Earthquake Data
• Thermochemistry of Chemical Substances
• ThermoDex [index for over 70 printed handbooks]
• Thermophysical Properties of Fluid Systems
• Tide Table Information:

  Harmonic Tide Predictor

  Tide Tables for Monterey Bay (1995-1999).

  TideTables for other locations.

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — Major public data holdings Includes ENVIROFACTS, Aerometric Information Retrieval System, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program, Gulf of Mexico Program, National Estuaries Program, Great Lakes Regional Environmental Information System, Great Lakes Information Network, Enviro$en$e, and EPA National GIS Program.
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ENVIROFACTS
• U.S. Energy Information Administration Official : Energy Statistics
• USGS node of the National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse--[information about the file]
• USGS: Water Data

  National Water Information System (NWISWeb) 100 years of archival and real-time streamflow data.

  USGS: Real-Time Water Data [Real-time hydrologic data are considered provisional, which imposes limitations on its use. See U.S. Geological Survey Circular, 1123: Stream-Gaging Program of the U.S. Geological Survey. Shelved at 550.6 .U58c no.1123 in Branner Library.

• USGS Water-Use Data Archive — [information about the file available]
• USGS Weekly Seismicity Reports: Northern California
• Weather Conditions:
  • National Weather Service

    Recent Observations and Climate Data

  • National Weather Service: San Francisco Bay Area/Monterey
  • NSF Geosciences Unidata Integrated Weather Information
  • The Daily Planet — Weather and Climate Info.
  • Local California Weather forecasts
  • Local California Weather forecasts
• WOCE World Ocean Circulation Experiment Global Data Resource
• WMO Antarctic Ozone Bulletins — [Summaries of the status of the ozone hole]
• World Data Center Paleoclimatology: Modern and Fossil Pollen Data
• World Ocean Atlas 1998 Figures
• Yaws' Handbook of Thermodynamic and Physical Properties of Chemical Compounds

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ENVIROFACTS

Summary: ENVIROFACTS is a relational database that integrates data from four major EPA program systems. Databases included in ENVIROFACTS are: Permit Compliance System; Comprehensive Enironmental Response, Compensation and Liability Information System; Toxic Release Inventory System; Resource Conservation and Recovery Information System; Facility Index System; and ENVIROFACTS Master Chemical Integrator.

USGS node of the National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse

Here's a list of some of the most popular digital geospatial data set collections from USGS. NOTE: Many of the CD-ROMs listed for purchase on these pages are already available in the Branner Library. Check the titles of the data sets desired in SOCRATES - Stanford's Web-based Catalog.

USGS Water-Use Data Archive

From this page you can download water-use data sets from the National Water-Use Data Archive to your computer. This area contains national data files, in "plain ASCII" format (suitable for any computer!). Data files are also available in compressed MSDOS format, or in compressed UNIX format.

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Compiler: Charlotte Derksen, .