These are a collection of data sources that I wanted to dedicate a post to.  The scale is truly global.

OpenTopography facilitates efficient access to topography data, tools, and resources to advance our understanding of the Earth’s surface, vegetation, and built environment. https://opentopography.org/

Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) is a world-leading ocean observing facility hosted and owned by the University of Victoria (UVic), and managed and operated by the ONC Society, a not-for-profit established in 2007. ONC delivers ocean data from its cabled, mobile and community-based observing networks that represent an essential component of Canada’s ocean observing science capacity.

By bringing data to the surface, ONC provides ocean intelligence to scientists, governments, organizations, and citizens. Ocean data are archived, processed and made freely available via ONC’s data management system, Oceans 3.0. https://data.oceannetworks.ca/

Nullschool Technologies Inc. helps people understand Earth science through the visualization of weather and climate data. Our website, earth.nullschool.net, has been in operation since late 2013, providing access to real-time global wind, weather, ocean, and pollution conditions on an interactive animated map.

Millions of visitors rely on earth.nullschool.net to understand the world around them. It has been featured in textbooks, scientific journals, museum exhibits, documentaries, magazines, and newscasts as an intuitive and innovative tool for understanding Earth’s dynamic environment. https://earth.nullschool.net/

Here at the College of DuPage, we take great pride in offering some of the best weather images and products available on the Internet. In order to keep our website running as smooth and problem-free for everyone as possible, we kindly ask all users to follow the following guidelines. https://weather.cod.edu/terms/

360Cities is the source of 360° imagery for EdTech service providers, educational publishers, digital advertising agencies, and VR/AR/MR experience developers. We’ve been curating and licensing high quality, fully 360° interactive panoramic photos and videos since 2008 and have rewarded thousands of passionate VR photographers and videographers from around the world with royalties on their work. https://www.360cities.net

WeatherSpark.com offers detailed reports of the typical weather for 145,479 locations worldwide.

We offer two related but separate data products: averages and history. The averages data are normals over the entire reporting period from 1980 to 2016. The history data are historical records from raw observations made at airports. https://weatherspark.com