External Data Sources
External Data Sources
Climate Risk and Vulnerability
Climate Change Knowledge Portal
Download CSV file and spatial data on Climatology, Timeseries and Heatplot amongst others.
University of Noter Dame
The Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN) aims to help private and public sectors prioritize climate adaptation, ultimately lowering risk and enhancing readiness. Data includes all ND-…
Climatology/Meteorology
Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC)
Explore monthly precipitation dataset from 1891-present is calculated from global station data from GPCC.
FAO Map Catalogue
Explore data on rainfall and other variables, as well as other sectors on FAO map catalogue
NASA Global Climate Change
NASA provides temperature datasets from various sources, including satellite measurements and surface weather stations worldwide.
Berkeley Earth Data
Explore and visualize data on Global temperatures, air pollution amongst others.
IPCC Data distribution Centre
The DDC provides a transparent, traceable, stable and accessible archive for the climate, socio-economic and environmental data
Copernicus Climate Data Store
Provides a range of long-term, global climate data records on temperature, including reanalysis, satellite, and ground-based observations
Transport and Infrastructure
UIC
With Railisa UIC statistics, explore, visualize and download data on Railway Infrastructure as well as Energy
The World bank
Explore World Bank Catalogue for Data on parameters gathered after an assessment of the technological potential for development of floating solar photovoltaic (PV) projects on existing hydropower…
World Respurces Institute
A comprehensive, global, open source database of power plants
Water
FAO
FAO Acquatats portal enables users to access the core database of country statistics, focused on water resources, water uses and agricultural water management. Explore country statistics and more.
Renewable Energy/Energy Data
IRENA
Explore IRENA data and statistics by browsing a wide range of topics such as Capacity and Generation, Costs, Finance and more
Global Solar Atlas
Download maps and data prepared by Solargis for The World Bank. Solar resource and PV power potential maps and GIS data can be downloaded here.
Global Wind Atlas
Explore windy areas and wind data per country and region to determine the wind energy potential of your chosen country or region.
Open Energy Data Initiative
Has a collection of solar, as well as other energy datasets, resources, and tools
Renewables Ninja
Open-source platform that allows users to download solar, wind energy data for specific locations around the world
Agriculture and land use
FAO
At FAOSTATS, explore Food and Agricultural Data from 1961 to the most recent year available.