NOAA's Satellite and Information Service is a world leader in providing uninterrupted environmental data and global monitoring of the Earth through the operation of the Nation's operational environmental satellites, processing and distribution of data and products, and management of the world's largest climate data archive at the National Climatic Data Center, the National Oceanographic Data Center , and the National Geophysical Data Center. NOAA's satellites monitor:

• Atmospheric temperatures
• Oceanic temperatures
• Greenhouse gases
• Ozone Sea ice, glaciers, snow cover
• Sea level Ocean acidification
• Extreme temperatures and floods/droughts

Data from NESDIS satellites are used in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, the U.S. Global Change Research Program reports, and for other scientific research on climate change and variability. U.S. Global Change Research Program Climate Toolkit

Offices across NOAA contribute to NOAA's climate change goal of understanding climate variability and change to enhance society's ability to plan and respond. The Climate Program Office administers the climate programs across NOAA including at the Oceanic and Atmospheric Research and the Climate Prediction Center at the National Weather Service.

• NOAA Regional Climate Center
• Frequently Asked Questions on Global Warming from NCDC
• The Essential Principles of Climate Science
• Climate Change 101
• U.S. Global Change Research Program Climate Toolkit
• Global Warming's Six Americas 2009 from George Mason Center for Climate Change Communication.
• Communicating on Climate Change from The Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting of the University of Rhode Island.
• Pew Center on Global Climate Change
• The Climate Center of The Earth Institute at Columbia University

• Real Climate Blog “Climate Science from Climate Scientists

  The Cooperative Research Program manages a coast-to-coast research coalition between the federal government and universities.