JISAO data

JISAO / CSES Climate Data Services

A brief log of advice delivered in response to email queries


2016

30 September: Adam Manvell (manvell yahoo.fr) Daily African precipitation data
22 June: Soraya SayahiSurname (sayahisoraya69@yahoo.com)Writing a netCDF file in Matlab
29 February: Nicolas Martinez (nicolas.martinez44 yahoo.de) Sahel precipitation index
12 January: Brendan Heberton (brendan.heberton gmail.com)PNA index
16 January: Yoshinobu Kitamura (yoshikita1949 gmail.com) Sahel precipitation index

    

2015

13 October: Marcin Tobolka (tolbolkamarcin gmail.com) Sahel precipitation index
22 July: Tingzhuang Yan (tyan coastal.edu) Sahel precipitation index
15 June: Andrew Friedman (Andrew.Friedman locean-ipsl.upmc.fr) Sahel precipitation
27 April: Adam Turchioe (adam.turchioe thomsonreuters.com) Sahel precipitation index
26 January: Kelin Zhuang (zhuangk dickinson.edu) Legates and Wilmott gridded temperature data
19 January: Andrew Friedman (anflod locean-ipsl.upmc.fr) Global-SST ENSO index


2014

31 October: James Banasick (james.banasick29 hotmail.co.uk) Sahel precipitation
18 August: Balasubramanya Nadiga (bfnadiga gmail.com ) netcdf
21 July: Arumita Bandyopadhyay Roychowdhury (arumita.rc gmail.com) elevation data
1 July: ljm19870918 (15501066098 126.com) Matlab plotting query
19 May: Laiyin Zhu (zhulion1982 hotmail.com) Sahel Precipitation Index
14 April: Annabelle Powell (Annabelle.Powerll iied.org) Sahel Precipitation Index
12 March: Chris Vos (christopher.vos durham.ac.uk) Sahel Precipitation Index
25 February: Juddy Okpara-Ejiaku (Juddy.N.OkparaEjiaku-2 ou.edu) Sahel Precipitation Index


2013

13 November: Olalekan Isioye (u13390742 tuks.co.za) NCEP - NCAR reanalysis
3 November: Matthew Souders (matt.souders@gmail.com) Daily AO timeseries.
25 October: Annabelle Powell (Annabelle.Powell iied.org) Sahel Precipitation Index
30 Aiugust: Giuocheng Wang (guocheng51796 163.com) Global-SST ENSO index
7 August: Tingzhuang Yan (tyan coastal.edu) Sahel precipitation
25 July: Teresa Comiskey (comiskey_teresa yahoo.ie) Sahel precipitation index
9 July: Ipshita Majhi (imajhi gmail.com) OPENDAP and Matlab
9 July: Gerbert Pleitjer (G.Pleitjer student.tudelft.nl) AO figure
18 June: Justin Rogers (jsrogers stanford.edu) Palmyra precipitation
7 June: Dan Sparks (daniel_sparks fws.gov) NOAA cooperative data
2 June: Diego Miralles (Digeo.Miralles bristol.ac.uk) Global ENSO SST index
28 May: Brian Mapes (bmapes rsmas.miami.edu) Updates of daily GPCP data and OPENDAP
16 May: Yongjiu Xu (xyj-20012318 hotmail.com) Reading Netcdf files with Matlab
9 April: Francesco Nordio (fnordio hsph.harvard.edu) reading HDF files.
17 March: Arlene Fontánez (arlene17 gmail.com) Ingesting netCDF files into R
14 February: C. Kalyani Devasena (kalyani cmmacs.ernet.in) NCO help
30 January: Mark Levesley (mark121 magafter.com) Contemporary temperature and precipitation data
22 January: Joseph Holden (J.Holden leeds.ac.uk) Sahel precipitation index
21 January: Christian Berner Skipper (cb rosborg-gym.dk) Sahel precipitation index
12 January: Muhammad Dogar (muhammad.dogar kaust.edu.sa) NetCDF operators
3 January: Guillaume Mauger (gmauger uw.edu) High spatial resolution climate data sets


2012

28 November 2012: Jeanne Jensen (nkv443 alumni.ku.dk) Sahel precipitation index
6 November 2012: John Risley (jrisley usgs.gov) Netcdf operators
5 November: R. P. Kane ( kane dge.inpe.br ) Northeast Brazil precipitation index
24 October: Andrew Shirk (ashirk uw.edu) Update of the Modis Aqua chlorophyll-a data
15 October: Robert Armstrong (Robert.Armstrong AGR.GC.CA) The PDO and Nino3.4 indices
4 September: See-hai Ooi (axl419 yahoo.com) Subsetting HDF-format data
24 August: Dan Urban (durban stanford.edu) Obtaining daily VIC data
14 August: Amanda Phalin (amanda.phalin warrington.ufl.edu) Country-average outgoing longwave radiation data
13 August: Ping Yang (pyang ccny.cuny.edu) climate model forcing data
13 August: Kuukua Koranteng (k.koranteng ifad.org) Sahel precipitation index
17 July: Alex St. Pé (astpe umgc.edu) Sahel precipitation index
13 July: Rei Ueyama (reiueyama gmail.com) ERA interim data
10 July: Martin Vermeer (martin.vermeer aalto.fi) Global SST ENSO index
27 June: Saskia de Melker (SDeMelker newshour.org) Helping a PBS Newshour "reporter-producer" to find a reference which she could have found herself.
18 June: Leslie Jones (lajones usgs.gov) Hydrological data for the Pacific Northwest
11 June: Steff Gaulter (Steff.Gaulter aljazeera.net) Sahel precipitation index
31 May: Tajdarul Hassan Syed (tsyed uci.edu) Reading netCDF files.
31 May: Shirley David (sjdavid pagasa.dost.gov.ph) Reading netCDF files with GrADS.
23 May: Brian Zimmer (bzimmer climate.com) Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) hydrological model data
18 May: John F Hermance (john_hermance brown.edu) Sahel precipitation index
24 April: Pat Caldwell (caldwell hawaii@edu) northeast Brazil precipitation
18 April: Gualberto Hernandez (gualberto.hernandez lie.org.mx) Regridding data.
17 April: Jan Beran (Jan.Beran uni-konstanz.de) Sahel precipitation index
30 March: Kevin Kuo (kkuo umich.edu): Practical help with an EOF calculation.
16-17 March: John Kennedy (john.kennedy ukmetoffice.gov.uk) and Greg Goodman (gg catking.net): Global SST anomaly time series.
29 February: See Hai Ooi (ax1419 yahoo.com) Plotting MODIS data in MATLAB.
26 January: Alain Robichaud (Alain.Robichaud ec.gc.ca) Global ENSO SST index.
24 January: Bob Stock (r.stock uwinnipeg.ca) Sahel precipitation index.
20 January: Jim Haywood (jim.haywood metoffice.gov.uk) Sahel precipitation index

2011

16 December: Jonas Nielsen (Jonas.Nielsen anthro.ku.dk) Sahel precipitation index
16 December: Ravi Shukla (ravishukla72 gmail.com) Daily SST data for the pre-satellite era
2 December: Deven O'Neil (devenoneil gmail.com) Atmospheric circulation pressure indices
3 November: Andy Gillison (andygillison gmail.com) Marine minimum and maximum temperatures, and relative humidity
3 November: Katherin Mendoza (mendoza ccres.org) Reading the new VIC reanalysis
2 November: Jim Haywood (J.M.Haywood exeter.ac.uk) Sahel precipitation index
31 October: Scott Gianelli (smg58 columbia.edu) Sahel precipitation index
28 October: Adam Prakash (Adam.Prakash fao.org) Sahel precipitation idex
26 October: Ravi Shukla (ravishukla72 gmail.com) GPCP and CMAP precipitation
21 October: Fardin Seify (fardin.seify ut.ac.ir) Reading netCDF files with Matlab
10 October: Rebecca Asch (rgasch ucsd.edu) Reading netCDF files with Matlab
10 October: Vinoj V (Vinoj.Velu pnnl.gov) GPCP precipitation reference
6 October: J. Scott Pflumm (jsp116 arl.psu.edu) Reading netCDF files with Matlab
6 October: Jascha Lehmann (jascha.lehman pik-potsdam.de) Update of the GHCN precipitation data.
12 August: Rob Nicholas (rob.nicholas psu.edu) Gridded land temperature data
10 August: Ralf Seiler (rseiler rcs.urz.tu-dresen.de) Sahel precipitation index
4 August: Jonathan Friedman (andfried berkeley.edu) Gridded GHCN precipitation
3 August: Jonathan Rothstein (a06jonro student.his.se): Fortaleza Brazil precipitation
2 August: Xike Zhang (Xike.Zhang climatechange.qld.gov.au) 19th century PDO extension
2 August: Steven Quiring (squiring geog.tamu.edu) Sahel precipitation index
25 July: Gordon Holtgrieve (gholt uw.edu) Hydrological datasets
28 July: Muhammad Faiz (mhmdfaiz86 gmail.com) Colormaps
19 July: Mendy Fisch (mendy princeton.edu) University of Delaware gridded temperature and precipitation
14 July: Marzuki (marzuki fmipa.unand.ac.id) Reading HDF-format files in Matlab
12 July: Jonathan Wells (j.wells ich.ucl.ac.uk) Global ENSO SST figure publication permmission
6 July: Julian Sachs (jsachs u.washington.edu) Micronesia preciptation maps
27 June: Christian Kampicler (C.Kampichler nioo.knaw.nl) Sahel precipitation
26 June: Ed Blanchard (ed atmos.washington.edu) Update of SAM index.
16 June: Elina Marmer (elinamar gmx.net), University of Hamburg: Permission to use Sahel precipitation figure
15 June: Becky Bortnick (bbortnick sainc.com), U.S. Department of Defense: Sahel precipitation index
13 June: Claude Labine (Claude.Labine campbellsci.ca) Station pressure data
2 June: Mesmin Koulet Vickot (MKouletVickot imf.org) Update of the Sahel precipitation index
26 May: George Huffman (george.j.huffman nasa.gov) Reading the GPCP daily precipitation files in netCDF
4 May: Robin Harvey (rjharvey centurytel.net) VIC model evaporation rates for WA community
28 April: Katrina Virts (kvirts atmos.washington.edu) Writing netCDF files in Matlab
19 April: Fuyu Li (fli lbl.gov) GPCP precipitation data
8 April: Ben Clegg (bclegg life.illinois.edu) University of Delaware temperature data
28 March: Aaron Schoeneman (aschoene iastate.edu) Sahel rainfall
23 March: Jerome Patoux (jeromepx uw.edu) land masks
15 March: Chris Webster (Chris.Webster metservice.com) Use of GPCP precipitation analyses for meteorologist training by New Zealand
14 March: Britta Voss (bvoss whoi.edu) update of the global ENSO index
13 March: Muhsin M (aspmuhsin gmail.com) reading HDF-format files with MATLAB
12 March: Karen McKinnon (karen.mckinnon post.harvard.edu) Calculating a PDO index
12 March: Nick Siler (siler atmos.washington.edu) Daily PNA values
28 February: Erico Tavares (erico gaiaenergy.eu) PDO update
21 February: Ravi Kumar (hairavi06 gmail.com) Availability of NDVI data
19 February: Rahul P (metrahulp gmail.com) Reading netCDF files in GrADS
29 January: Robert George (c.robert gmail.com) Update CTI (for Australian plague locust research)
12 January: Da Yang (dyang caltech.edu) Daily precipitation to study MJO
12 January: Ricardo Safra de Campos (ricardosafra usp.br) Sahel precipitation
8 January: Maria Asay (mslack5 yahoo.com): elevation data
5 January: Saïdou Abdoul-Aziz (saidou_aa yahoo.fr) Sahel precipitation



2010

20 December: Steve Ackerman / John Knox (stevea ssec.wisc.edu) Use of precipitation and ENSO figures in book.
2 December: Troy Bernier (troybernier gmail.com) Sahel precipitation index
18 November: Barimalala Rondrotiana (rbarimal ctp.it) Reading and plotting HDF-format files with Matlab
16 November: H. N. Huynh (HN.Huynh student.ulg.ac.be) Reading HDF-format files with Matlab
8 November: Jørgen Berthelsen (j_berthelsen hotmail.com) Update of NAO index.
3 November: Tania Busch Isaksen (taniabusch yahoo.com) School of Publich Health desiring temperature and precipitation data for counties
26 October: Ed Blanchard (ed atmos.washington.edu) Southern Annular Mode indices
25 October: Adriano Schorr (adrianoschorr gmail.com) historical SST observations and the PDO
13 October: Maria Asay (mslack5 yahoo.com) Elevation data
6 October: Wei Zhao (zhao9 umail.iu.edu) Matlab netcdf software
5 October: Yuwei Liu (yuwei12341 berkeley.edu) Sahel precipitation citation
2 October: Hoori Amaji (h.ajami unsw.edu.au) Obtaining daily VIC hydrology data.
29 September: Fadzil Noir (fadzilmnor84 gmail.com) Univ. of Malaya, GOES Precipitation Index
25 August: Kevin Wood (Kevin.R.Wood noaa.gov) HadCRUT3 temperature data sampling
25 August: Charles Wilson ( Custerwilsonaa aol.com ) update cold tongue index
8 August: Roland Stull (rstull eos.ubc.ca) CTI, AO permissions for publication.
3 August: Peter Rhines (rhinesp gmail.com) Matlab / netCDF interface.
30 July: Aoondover Tarhule (atarhule ou.edu) Geography Professor, Sahel precipitation
27 July: Ileana Blade (ileanablade ub.edu) Professor, Matlab and NetCDF
23 July: Matt Hill (matthills atmos.washington.edu) Matlab netCDF manipulations
12 July: Darnell Sessons (dsessons wiley.com) Sahel precipitation permission for publication
12 July: Ralf Bennartz (bennartz aos.wisc.edu) Sahel precipitation
6 July: Ray Tomes (ray tomes.biz) Update of the Southern Annular Mode index.
6 May: Phil Nott (pnott birdpop.org) satellite vegetation estimates
26 May: Clint Winant (cwinant ucsc.edu) MATLAB netCDF libraries
21 May: Mike Warner (mdwarner gmail.com) "Unified" daily precipitation
20 May: Brandon Moore (brandon.moore vandals.uidaho.edu) Daily VIC hydrology files
17 May: Juan Valdes (jvaldes u.arizona.edu) Matlab shapefiles
14 May: Rei Ueyama (rei atmos.washington.edu) "incoming ftp"
10 May: Nick Brooks (nick.brooks uea.ac.uk) Sahel precipitation
7 May: Yusuf (awal0003 flinders.edu.au) Precipitation units choices
7 May: Belen Fonseca (brfonseca fis.ucm.es) Atlantic SST and NetCDF operators
30 April: Jinwoong Yoo (jyoo2 tigers.lsu.edu) NetCDF operators
17 March: Jim Lutz (jlutz uw.edu) Update of PNA; analyses of Univ. Delaware temp. and precip.
15 March: Juan Feng (fengjuan2001 126.com) An update of the SLP-based Southern Annular Mode index.
12 March: Jennifer Lipton (LiptonJ cwu.edu) Geography professor, fine scale temperature and precipitation data for Washington state.
10 March: Joe Sirott (joe sirvin.net) satellite estimates of daily max temperature at 1-km resolution
4 March: Bill Summerhill (summerhill ucla.edu) Professor, Brazil rainfall for counties in Sao Paolo state: stations or gridded data
27 February: Bernie Stilgoe (d1210953 umail.usq.edu.au) Post-doc, availability of a daily nino3.4 SST index.
15 February: Rei Ueyama (rei atmos.washington.edu) Atm Sci. Grad. Student, How to calculate a daily SST index.
8 February: Taramae Wataru ( teramae wataru gmail.com ) Graduate student, University of Tokyo. Sahel precipitation data.
29 January: Katrina Virts (kvirts atmos.washington.edu) Graduate student, how to obtain and process SeaWiFS data
28 January: Robert Bachelor (U.S. Air Force) marine minimum and maximum air temperature data
26 January: Mike Wallace (wallace atmos.washington.edu). Advise about daily temperature and aerosol data for India.
5 January: Ahmed Ramadan (arh63 yahoo.com) Graduate student in Suez. Obtain data for the Gulf of Suez.
21 January: Rei Ueyama (rei atmos.washington.edu) Atm Sci graduate student. Finding daily MJO data.


 

2009

3 April 2009: Abed Khalil (Abedalrazq.Khalil at partnerre.com) A reinsurance firm. Update of the Sahel rainfall index and a discussion of decadal SST predictions.
3 April 2009: Yongshen Xu (yongsheng.xu at marine.usf.edu). Update of global, gridded land precipitation data in netCDF.
6 April 2009: Yongshen Xu (yongsheng.xu at marine.usf.edu) Where to find global, gridded air-sea fluxes in netCDF.
10 April 2009: Daniel Boyce (dboyce at dal.ca) Questions about the COADS global SST timeseries. Changes in measurements.
10 April 2009: Dan Vimont (dvimont at wisc.edu) Where to find NetCDF Operators (NCOs) --- sent him to http://jisao.washington.edu/data/nco/
13 April 2009: Yongshen Xu (yongsheng.xu at marine.usf.edu). Advice on satellite estimates of precipitation over the oceans.
13 April 2009: Katrina Virts (kvirts at gmail.com) UW Atmospheric Sciences graduate student. Advice on MJO indices
14 April 2009: Phil Nott (pnott at birdpop.org) Ornithologist. Why the CMAP and GPCP precipitation estimates differ.
15 April 2009: Phil Nott (pnott at birdpop.org) Ornithologist. Provided him with the "precipitation reconstruction" rain gauge data in netCDF.
24 April 2009: Amato Evan (atevan at wisc.edu) Status of the Sahel precipittation index.
24 April 2009: Phil Nott (pnott at birdpop.org) More advice on how precipitation datasets are constructed.
29 April 2009: George Huffman (george.j.huffman at nasa.gov) George produces the GPCP precipitation dataset. We provide a netCDF version of the GPCP data on the WWW, and George passed on a user's appreciation for our doing so.
4 May 2009: Arathy Menon (arathy at caos.iisc.emet.in) QBO index advice.
21 May 2009: Panos Athanasiadis ( panos at atmos.washington.edu ) Query about GPCP daily precipitation netCDF files that we provide.
17 June 2009: Uli Spinder ( uspindle at wlgore.com ) surface wind data.
2 July 2009: Lingling Chen ( lin-ling.chen at nersc.no ) Pentad-mean NCEP reanalysis data.
7 July 2009: Katrina Virts (kvirts at gmail.com) UW Atmospheric Sciences graduate student. Status of GPCP; CMAP pentad data; cold tongue index
11 July 2009: Brian Smoliak ( bsmoliak at washington.edu ) quality of the University of East Anglia, University of Delaware, and NOAA National Climatic Data Center gridded surface temperature data.
26 July 2009: Liu Xin Min ( liuxinmin at hotmail.com ) Northern Annular Mode index update.
28 July 2009: Chris Folland ( chris.folland at metoffice.gov.uk ) GPCP pentad precipitation. "... this NetCDF data is very convenient.".
28 July 2009: Scott Sellars ( scott.sellars at noaa.gov ) Graduate student at GFDL. Availability of HadCRUT3 temperature data.
5 August 2009: John Brooke ( jbrooke1 at columbus.rr.com ) Humanities professor in need of an ENSO index.
13 August 2009: Yanhong Gao ( yanhong at hydro.washington.edu ) NetCDF operators.
8 September 2009: Marton Balint (Martin.Balint at unep.org) update of Sahel precipitation figure for a United Nations Environment Programme report.
17 September 2009: Omar Aziz (omarazia at u.washington.edu). Researcher working with Nate Mantua. What constitutes the ERSST data?
30 September 2009: Torbjørn Lorentzen (torborn.lorentzen at bjerknes.uib.no) Updated ENSO rankings.
27 October 2009: Reza Attarzadeh (r.attarzadeh at gmail.com) Student in Iran seeking help to read HDF format files.
6 November 2009: Bill Archibald (w.archibold at usask.edu) Clarification on Sahel Precipitation Index.
10 December 2009: Trond Kristiansen (trond.kristiansen at imr.no). Could I update the seawifs chlorophyll files? The netCDF files I provide are easier to read than the HDF files that NASA provides. Just ask Trond.
14 December 2009: Rei Ueyama (rei at u.washington.edu) Atmospheric Sciences graduate student with a query about daily precipitation data sets.




Todd Mitchell (mitchell@atmos.washington.edu)
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