Archived websites
Want to find a website that has been discontinued? Try the Internet Archive WayBackMachine.
Atmospheric and Climate Data Sources
The Atmosphere Data page is for those who want to find environmental data related to meteorology and climatology. There are a number of sites listed for organizations that collect data either in support of their research objectives or as part of their organizational mission.
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National Weather Service (NWS)The NWS information database provides daily forecasts and warnings for severe weather events such as hurricanes, tornadoes, winter storms, flooding, and tsunamis.
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Climate Data Online - NOAAProvides access to NCDC's archive of global historical weather and climate data in addition to station history information.
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NCDC- National Climatic Data Center. Image and Publications SystemA list links to data publications from the NCDC.
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EarthDataProvides descriptions of Earth science data sets covering agriculture, the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and oceans, snow and ice, geology and geophysics, paleoclimatology, and human dimensions of global change.
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Goddard Earth Sciences (GES) Data and Information Services Center (DISC)The GES DISC provides data and related services for global change research and education.
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National Atmospheric Deposition ProgramThe purpose of the network is to collect data on the chemistry of precipitation for monitoring of geographical and temporal long-term trends.
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National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)Responsible for preserving, monitoring, assessing, and providing public access to the Nation's climate and historical weather data and information.
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National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS)Provides access to global environmental data from satellites and other sources.
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National Snow and Ice Data CenterScientific data sets for research focusing on the cryosphere and its interactions. Data are from satellites and field observations.
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NOAA Annual Greenhouse Gas Index (AGGI)The AGGI is a measure of the climate-warming influence of long-lived trace gases and how that influence has changed since the onset of the industrial revolution.
Alternative sources for government datasets
Since January 2025 a number of government data sets and webpages have been taken offline. Several organizations have projects to save and provide access to government data and websites.
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Data Rescue ProjectThe Data Rescue Project is tracking datasets that have been saved and organizations that are maintaining them
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Harvard Law School Library Innovation LabThis project is preserving all the datasets posted to the data.gov website.
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DataLumosDataLumos is a crowdsourced repository for government data.
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End of Term Web Archive / Internet Archive Wayback MachineWhile datasets are not the primary focus of this preservation project, it does archive many federal government websites during presidential administration transitions. A link to the Wayback Machine and instructions on how to find sites archived by the project can be found by scrolling to the bottom of the page.
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Public Data RepositoryMirrored and archived public data from a wide variety of site hosted by UC Santa Barbara.
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Public Envrionmental Data PartnersA collaborative effort to preserve and provide access to environmental data.
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Find Lost DataSearch for datasets across a variety of sites including archive.org's CDC mirror, Harvard Dataverse, Data Rescue Project, Climate Program Portal, Harvard's data.gov mirror, and DataLumos.
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Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC)TRAC has been collecting and analyzing government staffing, spending, and enforcement activities data since 1996, with a special focus on immigration.
To track ongoing changes to government websites (and more general government activities) this weekly roundup is especially useful. Scroll to the bottom to find the section on web content changes.
