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World Climate Research Program Home Page (WCRP) and Projects:

• Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX)
• Climate Variability and prediction program (CLIVAR)
• Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate (SPARC)
• Arctic Climate System Study - Climate and Cryosphere (ACSYS/CLIC)
• Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere (TOGA) program
• World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE)
• Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project (AMIP)
• Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE)
• Cloupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP)
• Arctic Regional Climate Model Intercomparison Project (ARCMIP)

Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment Home Page (GEWEX) and Projects:

• Radiation Panel:
• Intercomparison of Radiation Codes in Climate Models (ICRCCM)
• International Intercomparison of 3D Radiation Codes (I3RC)
• Modeling Processes Panel (GMPP):
• GEWEX Cloud System Study (GCSS)
- GEWEX Cloud System Study Data Integration for Model Evaluation (GCSS-DIME)

• GEWEX Global Land/Atmosphere System Study (GLASS)
- Project for Intercomparison of Land-Surface Parameterization Schemes (PILPS)
- Assistance for Land-Surface Modeling Activities (ALMA)

• Hydrometeorology Panel (GHP):
• Continental Scale Experiments - Data
• Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period - Data
• Baltic Sea Experiment (BALTEX)
• The Coupling Tropical Atmosphere and Hydrological Cycle (CATCH) Project
• GEWEX Asian Monsoon Experiment (GAME)
• GEWEX Continental International Project (GCIP-GAPP)
• Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA)
• Mackenzie GEWEX Study (MAGS)
• Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC)

GEWEX Global Data Projects:

• International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP)
• International Satellite Land-Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP)
• Intercomparison of Radiation Codes in Climate Models (ICRCCM)
• Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP): The Project and Data Access links
• Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC)
• Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) Project
• Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN)
• Global Aerosol Climatology Project (GACP)
• SeaFlux

Regional Experiments Concerning Clouds, Radiation and Precipitation:

• First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) and GCSS case studies from FIRE:
ISCCP FIRE MS
ISCCP FIRE I Cirrus
ISCCP FIRE II Cirrus
FIRE Arctic Cloud Experiment (FIRE.ACE)

• Atlantic Stratus Experiment (ASTEX) and GCSS case studies from ASTEX:
ISCCP ASTEX

• Japanese Cloud and Climate Study (JACCS)
• Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program:
• Cloud Radar Data
• Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN)
• Surface Heat Budget of Arctic (SHEBA)
• NOAA/ETL Arctic Cloud Data
• Polar Exchange of the Sea Surface (POLES)
• The Wisconsin HIRS Cloud Climatology

Experimental Satellite Missions Concerning Clouds, Radiation, and Precipitation:

• Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE)
• Polarization and Directionality of Earth Reflectances (POLDER)
• Global Aerosol Climatology Project (GACP)
• Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I)
• Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)
• Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE)
• Scanner for Radiation Budget (SCARAB)
• Clouds and Earth Radiant Energy Study (CERES)
• CloudSat

Data Centers:

• NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)
• NASA GSFC Earth Sciences DAAC
• NASA Distributed Active Archive Center Alliance (DAAC Alliance)
• Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)
• GODDARD DAAC Climatology Interdisciplinary Data Collection (DAAC CIDC)
• LARC Atmospheric Sciences Data Center (ASDC)
• NASA Earth Observing System Distributed Active Archive Centers (EOSDIS)
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• NOAA National Climatic Data Center (NOAA NCDC)
• NOAA Satellite Active Archive (NOAA SAA)
• National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Data Archive
• Joint Office for Science Support at UCAR JOSS

Space Agencies

• Agencia Espacial Brasileira (AEB)
• Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)
• Canadian Space Agency (CSA)
• Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
• China National Space Administration (CNSA)
• Deutche Agentur fur Raumfahrtangelegenheiten (DARA)
• European Space Agency (ESA)
• Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)
• Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
• Russian Aviation and Space Agency (RKA)

Satellite-Operating Meteorological Agencies

• China Meteorological Administration (CMA)
• EUMETSAT
• India Meteorological Department (IMD)
• Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA)
  • Meteorological Satellite Center
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring (ROSHYDROMET)

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