{"id":477,"date":"2025-12-05T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atmos.ucla.edu\/rongfu\/?page_id=477"},"modified":"2025-12-05T23:07:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T23:07:00","slug":"resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/atmos.ucla.edu\/rongfu\/resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Programming Language and Software:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/matlab\/index.html\">Matlab<\/a>\u00a0Documentation (PDF available)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anaconda.com\/\">Anaconda<\/a>\u00a0IDE for Python<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/juliacomputing.com\/products\/juliapro.html\">JuliaPro<\/a>: A Julia Distribution<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.giss.nasa.gov\/tools\/panoply\/\">Panoply<\/a>: A convenient geo-data viewer (HDF, NetCDF, &#8230;)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mendeley.com\/\">Mendeley<\/a>: A powerful and free reference management software<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitvise.com\/\">Bitvise<\/a>: Windows SSH software for logging in group server<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/filezilla-project.org\/\">Filezilla<\/a>: Cross-platform FTP application<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voidtools.com\/downloads\/\">Everything<\/a>: A powerful local search tool<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Common Research Datasets:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Field Campaign:<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.arm.gov\/discovery\">DOE-ARM<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Reanalysis:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rda.ucar.edu\/#!lfd?nb=y&amp;b=proj&amp;v=NCEP%20Climate%20Forecast%20System%20Reanalysis\">CFSR\/CFSV2<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esrl.noaa.gov\/psd\/cgi-bin\/db_search\/SearchMenus.pl?Dataset=CDC+Derived+NCEP+Reanalysis+Products+Other+Gaussian+Grid&amp;Dataset=CDC+Derived+NCEP+Reanalysis+Products+Pressure+Level&amp;Dataset=CDC+Derived+NCEP+Reanalysis+Products+Spectral&amp;Dataset=CDC+Derived+NCEP+Reanalysis+Products+Surface+Flux&amp;Dataset=CDC+Derived+NCEP+Reanalysis+Products+Surface+Level&amp;Dataset=CDC+Derived+NCEP+Reanalysis+Products+Tropopause+Level&amp;Dataset=NCEP+Reanalysis+Daily+Averages+Other+Gaussian+Grid&amp;Dataset=NCEP+Reanalysis+Daily+Averages+Pressure+Level&amp;Dataset=NCEP+Reanalysis+Daily+Averages+Surface+Flux&amp;Dataset=NCEP+Reanalysis+Daily+Averages+Surface+Level&amp;Dataset=NCEP+Reanalysis+Daily+Averages+Tropopause+Level&amp;Dataset=NCEP+Reanalysis+Daily+Values&amp;Dataset=NCEP+Reanalysis+Other+Gaussian+Grid&amp;Dataset=NCEP+Reanalysis+Pressure+Level&amp;Dataset=NCEP+Reanalysis+Surface+Flux&amp;Dataset=NCEP+Reanalysis+Surface+Level&amp;NCEP+Reanalysis+Tropopause+Level&amp;group=1\">NCEP<\/a>, ERA-Interim (<a href=\"http:\/\/apps.ecmwf.int\/datasets\/data\/interim_full_moda\/\">monthly<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/apps.ecmwf.int\/datasets\/data\/interim_full_daily\/\">daily<\/a>),\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov\/daac-bin\/FTPSubset.pl\">MERRA<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov\/daac-bin\/FTPSubset2.pl\">MERRA2<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esrl.noaa.gov\/psd\/data\/20thC_Rean\/\">20th Century Reanalysis Project<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rda.ucar.edu\/datasets\/ds628.0\/#!access\">JRA-55 Reanalysis<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Precipitation data:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esrl.noaa.gov\/psd\/data\/gridded\/data.gpcc.html\">GPCC<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esrl.noaa.gov\/psd\/data\/gridded\/data.cmap.html\">CMAP<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/precip.gsfc.nasa.gov\/\">GPCP,<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mirador.gsfc.nasa.gov\/cgi-bin\/mirador\/presentNavigation.pl?project=TRMM&amp;tree=project\">TRMM<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Satellite data:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudsat.cira.colostate.edu\/\">CloudSat<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov\/AIRS\/data-holdings\">AIRS<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mls.jpl.nasa.gov\/index-eos-mls.php\">MLS<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cr.chiba-u.jp\/databases\/GEO\/H8_9\/FD\/index.html\">Himawari-8<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/disc.gsfc.nasa.gov\/datasets\/GPM_MERGIR_V1\/summary\">Global Merged IR<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Fire data:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/frap.fire.ca.gov\/mapping\/gis-data\/\">California Fire Perimeters<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov\/map\">Active Fire map<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Current Weather:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/weatherwest.com\/\">WeatherWest Blog (by Daniel Swain)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tropicaltidbits.com\/analysis\/models\/\">Weather Charts (Tropical Tidbits)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/earth.nullschool.net\/#current\/wind\/surface\/level\/orthographic=271.41,29.04,639\">Fansy surface wind<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index.html\">Daily Weather Map<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/\">Drought Monitor<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.srh.noaa.gov\/ridge2\/RFC_Precip\/\">Precipitation<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.erh.noaa.gov\/rah\/events\/\">Past Event Summaries, Case Studies and Event Maps<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/winter_storm_summaries\/winter_storm_summaries.shtml\">Past Storm Summaries<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/himawari8.nict.go.jp\/\">Himawari-8 Real-time<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Others<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nano-editor.org\/\">Nano Editor<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/atmosphere.copernicus.eu\/\">Atmosphere monitoring service by Copernicus<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sea-mat.github.io\/sea-mat\/#atmosphere\">Sea-Mat: Matlab tools for oceanographic analysis<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/sea-mat\/air-sea\">Useful functions from Sea-Mat<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ljp.gcess.cn\/dct\/page\/65544\">Homepage of Prof. Jianping Li<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/reanalyses.org\/atmosphere\/tools\">Intercomparison tools for reanalysis data<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Programming Language and Software: Common Research Datasets: Current Weather: 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