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Interested in finding and working with more data? Here are places to look:

Types of data to consider

• Atmosphere & sun: Temperature, precipitation, cloud cover, GHG concentrations, sunspots
• Biosphere: Vegetation cover, ecosystem productivity, albedo, carbon content
• Cryosphere & Hydrosphere: Ice extent & thickness; sea surface temperature; sea level
• Human activities: Greenhouse gas emissions

Data Sources: Government Portals

Federal

• Environment and Climate Change Canada
• Open Data Canada
• NOAA / National Centers for Environmental Information

  Provincial

• Ontario Open Data Catalogue

  Municipal

• Open data Hamilton
• Toronto open data

Data Sources: Non-profit organizations

• IPCC: climate, socio-economic and environmental data and scenarios used in IPCC reports
• Global carbon project: Global & national emissions data
• worldclim.org: gridded climate and weather data
• Scripps Observatory at UCSD: Longest continuous atmospheric CO2 concentration measurements
• Global FLUXNET: Ecosystem GHG, water, energy exchanges from stations around the world

Data Sources: From research projects

Find relevant data in research data repositories:

• Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR): Search for Canadian research and government datasets.
• Zenodo: International research data repository
• Dryad: International research data repository focused on environmental data
• Re3data.org: A registry of research data repositories

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