A 5‐volume CD‐ROM set of temporally and spatially consistent data for global climate studies is now available free of charge from NASA's EOS‐DIS Goddard Distributed Active Archive Center. The set, which was compiled in response to the needs of the land‐atmosphere interaction researceh community, covers vegetation; hydrology and soils; snow, ice, and oceans; radiation and clouds; and near‐surface meteorology.The data are easy to use and have undergone comprehensive peer review. Modelers, algorithm developers, and field experiment scientists are now using the data sets to drive land‐atmosphere models and support soil moisture modeling, modeling of net primary productivity for the terrestrial component of Earth, and global climate models. They may also be used for a variety of other research and educational purposes.