Participants are free to use any sources of environmental data that they would like. We present here a partial list of potential sources of useful environmental data, but there is no obligation to use any particular data source or to limit data sources to these.
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NASA Earth Science Data: https://earthdata.nasa.gov/
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NASA North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS): https://ldas.gsfc.nasa.gov/nldas/
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NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access, https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/, and https://www.drought.gov/data-download
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NOAA U.S. Climate Gridded Dataset (NClimGrid): https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-nclimgrid/ and https://github.com/NOAA-Big-Data-Program/EpiNOAA-R/
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PRISM Climate Group: http://prism.oregonstate.edu/
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WorldClim Global Climate Data: http://worldclim.org/
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Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium: https://www.mrlc.gov/