Video: Introduction to a Climate Game Jam

Video:  Introduction to Resources for the National Climate Game Jam 

Jammer tools and Tutorials

• Unity – Free Download for Personal use
• Pixel Prospector has compiled a wealth of resources
• Digital Tutorials
• Why you should participation in a a game jam.
• How to get the most out of a game jam.
• A starting list of resources for jam participants.
• Another list of resources for jammers and independent game developers.
• The Game Jam Survival Guide – Christer Kaitila

Public Domain Image Collections

• NOAA Photo Library
• NOAA Flikr Library
• National Park Service Digital Image Archive
• National Park Service Multimedia Archive
• National Archives
• Fish and Wildlife Photo Library
• Conservation Library of texts, maps, video, images Flickr
• USGS Photographic Collection
• USGS Maps, Imagery and Publications
• U.S. Forest Service
• NASA –Images of Change
• Eyes on the Earth  from NASA Beautiful Earth  from NASA
• Animation storyboard explains earth science from NASA
• NASA climate graphics and multimedia
• Science on a Sphere from NOAA
• U.S. Antarctic Program
• USDA Agriculture

Data Sources and Tools

Climate Data Primer

NOAA’s Historical Climatology Network, Climate Reference Network, and 30-year climate normals

Data Snapshots

Dataset Gallery

Tools for Visualizing or Manipulating data or datasets

National Climate Data Center – World’s largest weather/climate archive  NOAA Paleoclimatology Data

Visualizations/data from GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment)

Climate Time Machine

117 Resources with Datasets

Graphs/figures from the National Climate Assessment

Science on a Sphere

Investigate Earth Processes with real-time processes (Data in the Classroom)

Coastal Estuaries real-time data

Graphable data output from NASA missions throught the DICCE GIOVANNI system.