Resources on climate change
A number of external organisations provide further information about climate change research in New Zealand and abroad, national and international climate change policy, and climate change data. The following links should not be seen as a conclusive list but rather as a starting point for further research.
Intergovernmental panel on climate change
- Intergovernmental panel on climate change
- IPCC publications and data
- To follow the IPCC’s work on the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5)
- To follow IPCC Working Groups (physical sciences; impacts, adaptation and vulnerability; mitigation of climate change). The Technical Summary sections and Summaries for policymakers of these reports are generally more readable for non-specialists.
- Data Distribution Centre, operated jointly by research agencies of the UK, German and US governments in support of the IPCC process. Has further climate data available, including climate model projections for the future.
International climate change policy
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
- Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES), formerly the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.
International climate change research
- World Climate Research Program (WMO)
- Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5
- International Geosphere Biosphere Program
- Met Office Hadley Centre
- Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
- National Centre for Atmospheric Research
- Max Planck Institute for Meteorology .
New Zealand climate change information
- New Zealand Climate Change Centre
- New Zealand Government website
- Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE).
Data sources for greenhouse gases
- Global Monitoring Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Research (NOAA), US Department of Commerce
- Carbon tracker project
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego; Longest running direct measurements of CO2 in the atmosphere and home of the famous Keeling Curve
- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Baring Head atmospheric station near Wellington, New Zealand, maintains the longest running continuous direct measurements of atmospheric CO2 in the Southern Hemisphere
- Climate Analysis Tool, World Resources Institute.
Data sources for surface temperatures
- Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia
- Hadley Centre of the UK Meteorological Office
- NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
- NOAA Global Climate at a Glance, tools for visualising temperature trends and anomalies.
Data sources for atmospheric temperatures
Data sources for sea level
Data sources for greenhouse gas emissions
- NASA Global Change Master Directory
- Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC), US Department of Energy, longest historical records of CO2 emissions
- UNFCCC GHG inventory data, reports from developed countries and some developing countries on their national greenhouse gas emissions. Note: these data include emissions due to land-use change and forestry and include greenhouse gases other than CO2.
- BP Statistical Review of World Energy; annual reports, do not include all sources of renewable energy. Fossil fuel emission estimates used by the IPCC come from the CDIAC data set extended using growth rates for more recent years taken from the BP statistical review.
- World Energy Outlook, annual report by the International Energy Agency.