Environmental data across Atlas

A guide to marine observations, weather and terrain references used to frame environmental product questions.

Purpose and context

Atlas connects product development, public data and applied research across environmental systems, materials, industrial software and physical programs. These collections lead to the existing product surfaces and original publishers. They help readers follow the evidence behind a product question while retaining each application's own controls, methods and access rules.

Using these references

Marine instruments report conditions at specific places and times; gridded weather products describe a spatial estimate or forecast. Terrain provides another scale of context and cannot resolve every structure or drainage feature. Keep units, observation dates, spatial resolution and quality flags attached when comparing these sources. OceanGrid, LOCT, DownGust and PoleVolt ask different questions of this evidence, so a common source should not imply a common engineering result.

Scope and limitations

Public references do not confer access to private records or grant rights to redistribute third-party datasets. Check the linked product contract or publisher's terms before using an output commercially.

Sources and public resources

National Data Buoy Center

Station observations, wave products and historical buoy records. Select the station and reporting interval before comparing observations.

Publisher
NOAA

Metadata and links only. Consult the publisher for access, attribution and current reuse terms.

Link checked 2026-10-06. Publisher responded successfully.

NASA POWER

Meteorological and solar-resource data. Hourly, daily and climatological products answer different questions; retain temporal resolution and units.

Publisher
NASA Langley Research Center POWER Project

Metadata and links only. Consult the publisher for access, attribution and current reuse terms.

Link checked 2026-10-06. Publisher responded successfully.

3D Elevation Program

Elevation products and terrain documentation. Resolution and vertical references constrain slope and drainage interpretations.

Publisher
U.S. Geological Survey

Metadata and links only. Consult the publisher for access, attribution and current reuse terms.

Link checked 2026-10-06. Publisher responded successfully.

eGRID electricity data

Electricity generation and emissions releases. Use a consistent reporting year and region when comparing resource mixes or emissions factors.

Publisher
U.S. EPA

Metadata and links only. Consult the publisher for access, attribution and current reuse terms.

Link checked 2026-10-06. Publisher responded successfully.

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