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1. DISCOVERY-OEM: Ocean Ecosystems and Management [GB-NERC-BAS-PDC-00513]
Maintaining long-term food security in a changing environment is one of the greatest challenges to the sustainable exploitation of the Earth System, including its oceans. The well publicised collapses ...


2. MADIS Meteorological Surface Dataset [MADIS_METSFC]
Surface land and maritime observing stations report various meteorological variables that describe the current weather. These variables include basic measurements such as temperature, relative humidity, ...


3. 2012 Environmental Performance Index and Pilot Trend Environmental Performance Index [CIESIN_SEDAC_EPI_2012]
The 2012 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks 132 countries on 22 performance indicators in the following 10 policy categories: environmental burden of disease, water (effects on human health), ...


4. Canadian Communities Gallery - Educational Project Showcase [Canada_CCRS_CdnCommAtlas]
The Canadian Communities Gallery (CCGallery) is a service of the Atlas of Canada that provides access to the best and broadest collections of on-line educational ...


5. Effects of Climate Change on Global Food Production from SRES Emissions and Socioeconomic Scenarios [CIESIN_SEDAC_MVA_ECCGFPSRES]
Effects of Climate Change on Global Food Production from SRES Emissions and Socioeconomic Scenarios is an update to a major crop modeling study by the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). ...


6. Arc Atlas: Our Earth (CD-ROM) [ESRI_Arc_Atlas]
ArcAtlas: Our Earth brings to your computer a large collection of maps and information about the earth--its people, plants, animals, and their various environments and economies. Whether you're a ...


7. Compendium of Environmental Sustainability Indicator Collections: Complete Collection, Version 1.1 [CIESIN_SEDAC_CESIC_COMPLETE_V11]
The Compendium of Environmental Sustainability Indicator Collections contains 426 indicators for 239 countries from five major environmental sustainability indicator efforts: the 2006 Environmental ...


8. National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) - National Multi-agency Coordination Center (NMAC) [MSU0027]
The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) in Boise, Idaho is the nation's support center for wildlandfirefighting. Seven federal and state agencies call NIFC home and work together to coordinate ...


9. FAOSTAT Database on Agriculture [faostat]
FAOSTAT is an on-line and CD multilingual database currently containing over one million time-series records, updated as of September 2001, covering 210 countries and territories and international ...


10. Fish Habitat Database [GLFC_FishHabitatDatabase]
The Fish Habitat Database is a synthesis of extensive information on habitat requirements and characteristics of selected Great Lakes fish species. Sponsored by the Great Lakes Fishery Commission ...


11. Incidental Catch of Marine Birds in the North Pacific High Seas Driftnet Fisheries in 1990. [usgs_npwrc_incidentalmarinecatc]
The incidental take of marine birds was estimated for the following North Pacific driftnet fisheries in 1990: Japanese squid, Japanese large-mesh, Korean squid, and Taiwanese squid and large-mesh ...


12. Striped Bass Seine Survey of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources [MDDNR_stripedbass]
The juvenile striped bass survey documents annual year-class success for young-of-the-year (YOY) striped bass (Morone saxatilis) and relative abundance of many other fish species in Chesapeake ...


13. ETI CD - Cultivation and Farming of Marine Plants [ETI_FarmingMarinePlants]
Cultivation of seaweed is gaining interest on a worldwide scale. It is being used as food, fertilizer and resource for chemical constituents. Approximately 500,000 tons are being traded ...


14. Evaluation of the Genetic Diversity of Flavobacterium Psychrophilum from Various Origins [LSC_Flavobacteriumpsychrophilum]
The US Fish and Wildlife Service along with the Washington Department of Fisheries and Wildlife work in cooperation on the Pacific salmon restoration effort. For a number of reasons, population numbers ...


15. Susceptibility of arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) to infectious hematopoietic necrosis virsus (IHNV) and infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV) [LSC_ArcticCharIHNV]
Infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV) and infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV) are important viral fish pathogens that can cause high levels of mortality in populations of intensively ...


16. Storm Data (DSI-3910) [gov.noaa.ncdc.C00139]
Storm Data is the name of a digital data set and a publication available from the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). The digital data set is DSI-3910. Storm Data covers the United States of America. ...


17. Rotation and Nitrogen Fertilization Effects on Changes in Soil Carbon and Nitrogen [USDA0098]
The dataset consists of data resulting from an experimental study involving seven cropping systems (three monoculture, two 2-year, and two 4-year rotations) with three rates of N fertilizer. Data ...


18. Radarsat-2 Scenes, Natural Resources Canada [CWIC_REG]
The collection represents browse images and metadata for systematically georeferenced Radarsat-2 Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) satellite scenes. The browse scenes are not geometrically enhanced using ...


19. Major Marine Ecological Disturbances, Morbidity, Mortality and Disease of Marine Wildlife Species Human Health and Economic Impacts [HEED_UNH]
The HEED (Health, Ecological and Economic Dimensions of) Global Change Program, a 3-year effort funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Office of Global Programs ...


20. African Water Stress Study for the World Water Development Report II [UNH_WWRDII_AFRICA]
Outputs from a Water Balance and Transport Model (WBM/WTM) were used to determine the spatial distribution of renewable water supply, expressed as the sum of local runoff and river corridor discharge. ...


21. Climate Change in Canada - Impacts and Adaptation [Canada_GSC_ClimateChangeCdn]
Climate change affects all aspects of the Canadian economy and Canadian society as a whole. The Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Program provides funding for research and activities ...


22. DATABASE OF CRITICAL LOADS OF ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTANTS [EIC11_ATMOSPHERIC_POLLUTANTS]
The database comprises estimates of the vulnerability of the land surface of Great Britain to the effects of atmospheric pollution (particularly acid deposition), on the basis of air quality and the ...


23. Impacts of trawling on benthic habitats in the subantarctic and high antarctic - Benthic Invertebrate Database [ASAC_1189_benthic_database]
This project aims to assess the vulnerability of and risks to habitats in Australian fisheries in the Australian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)/Australian Fishing Zone (AFZ) of the Southern Ocean to ...


24. Annual Estimates of Global Anthropogenic Methane Emissions: 1860-1994, in CDIAC/Trends [TRENDS_CH4_EMISSIONS]
Estimates of man-made (anthropogenic) emissions of methane (CH4), from 1860 through 1994 are available in this data set. Data are provided for the following sources: - Flaring and Venting of Natural ...


25. Estimated Water Use in Puerto Rico, 2000 [USGS_OFR_2005_1201]
Water-use data were compiled for the 78 municipios of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico for 2000. Five offstream categories were considered: public-supply water withdrawals, domestic self-supplied water ...


26. IAI-Science-ISP-2-111-Precipitation in Southeastern South America: Influence of Sea Surface Temperatures, Predictability and Variability [IAIDIS492]   PARENT DIF
This dataset refers to Final Report of the ISP round 2 project number 111, which has the name "PRECIPITATION IN SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH AMERICA: INFLUENCE OF SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE, PREDICTABILITY AND ...


27. White Sturgeon Habitat in the Lower Columbia River [brdnbsc0001]
Estimates of spawning habitat for white sturgeons Acipenser transmontanus in the tailraces of the four dams on the lower 470 km of the Columbia River were obtained by using the Physical Habitat ...


28. 1998 Atlantic Tropical Storms: Views from the NOAA Satellites [gov.noaa.ncdc.C00524]
1998 Atlantic Tropical Storms: Views from the NOAA Satellites is a technical report produced by, and available from, the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). This annual report is a preliminary summary ...


29. A Climatology of Recent Extreme Weather and Climate Events [gov.noaa.ncdc.C00517]
A Climatology of Recent Extreme Weather and Climate Events is a technical report prepared by, and available from, the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). This 17-page report provides an overview, ...


30. National Atlas of the United States of America from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) [USGS_NATIONALATLAS]
The National Atlas updates a large bound collection of paper maps that was published in 1970. Like its predecessor, this edition promotes greater national geographic awareness. It delivers ...


31. State of the Climate - Global Hazards and Extremes [gov.noaa.ncdc.C00673]
Global Hazards/Climate Extremes highlights significant weather events around the world by month and year. It is prepared by and available from the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). The Product ...


32. The Miombo (Africa) Network Land Use/Land Cover CD-ROM from the International Geosphere Biosphere Program (IGBP) [IGBP_MIOMBO]
The Miombo Woodlands system is taken to include all those Southern and Central African ecosystems which occur under a hot, subhumid, seasonally-wet climate on soils derived ...


33. World Resources from the World Resources Institute (WRI) [WRI_WORLD_RESOURCES]
The latest World Resources reference is an authoritative assessment of the world's natural resources. The World Resources Institute (WRI), in collaboration with the United Nations Development ...


34. Hurricane Katrina - Biological Resources [USGS_BIO_KATRINA]
This website provides information regarding the emergency response and rescue efforts provided by USGS personnel from the National Wetlands Research Center and USGS Louisiana Water Science Center ...


35. EarthTrends: The Environmental Information Portal [WRI_EarthTrends]
EarthTrends is an online collection of information regarding the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world. Committed to the principle that accurate information drives ...


36. Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network Coordinating Office - NatureWatch Data, Canada [Canada_EMANCO_NatureWatchData]
NatureWatch is a suite of community based or "citizen science" monitoring programs that are administered through a partnership between the Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network Coordinating ...


37. Florida Geographic Data Library [FGDL]
The Florida Geographic Data Library (FGDL) is a mechanism for distributing spatial (GIS) data throughout the state of Florida. The FGDL is warehoused and maintained at the University of Florida's ...


38. Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project [ICBEMP]
The mission of The Interior Columbia Ecosystem Management Project (ICBEMP) is to develop a scientifically sound and ecosystem based strategy for forest and rangelands administered by the Forest Service ...


39. Right-to-Know GIS Atlas of the United States [Right_to_Know]
The Right-to-Know GIS Atlas of the United States CD is a comprehensive collection of public knowledge GIS data. The maps work with the free ArcExplorer GIS viewer, ArcView GIS, and many other GIS ...


40. Central American Vegetation/Land Cover Classification and Conservation Status [CIESIN_SEDAC_PROARCA_CAMVEGLCCCS]
The Central American Vegetation/Land Cover Classification and Conservation Status consists of GIS coverages of vegetation classes (forests, woodlands, savannas, shrubs, grasslands, wetlands, rocks, ...


41. Potential Impacts of Climate Change on World Food Supply: Data Sets from a Major Crop Modeling Study [CIESIN_SEDAC_GISS_CROPCLIM_DB]
Datasets from a Major Crop Modeling Study contain projected country and regional changes in grain crop yields due to global climate change. Equilibrium and transient scenarios output from General ...


42. The Estuarine Living Marine Resources Program [NOS00024]
The Estuarine Living Marine Resources Program (ELMR) program is a developing project to produce a comprehensive data base on the relative abundance, distribution and life history characteristics ...


43. NASA Land Information System (LIS) Data Sets [NASA_LIS_DATA]
The Land Information System (LIS) provides collection of sample data for demonstration of LIS code. The original source of each data set is given whenever possible. LIS does not endorse the validity, ...


44. GLOBAL FOREST ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION DATA FOR CARBON BALANCE RESEARCH [LUYSSAERT_CARBON_FLUX]
A comprehensive global database has been assembled to quantify CO2 fluxes and pathways across different levels of integration (from photosynthesis up to net ecosystem production) in forest ecosystems. ...


45. HydroSHEDS : The Hydrological data and maps based on SHuttle Elevation Derivatives at multiple Scales. [WWF_HS]   PARENT DIF
HydroSHEDS is a mapping product that provides hydrographic information for regional and global-scale applications in a consistent format. It offers a suite of geo-referenced data sets (vector and ...


46. World Biodiversity Database [WBD]
ETI's World Biodiversity Database is a continuously growing taxonomic database and information system that aims at documenting all presently known species (about 1.7 million) and to make ...


47. Kenya Coastal Zone - Marine Life, Fishing, Sport, Aquaculture, Vessels, Lighthouses [NBId0115_101]
The Eastern African Coastal and Marine Environment Resource Database is a comprehensive 1:250,000-scale vector database of the Kenya Coastal Zone. It consists of geographic, attribute, and textual ...


48. Lake Chad Datasets, Africa [NBId0079_101]
The Lake Chad Dataset which is a detailed case study of the UNEP/FAO/ESRI Family was developed by UNEP/GRID, on behalf of the UNEP/Fresh Water Unit for the Lake Chad Commission on Sustainable Development. ...


49. North Kenya GIS Database project, 1996 [NBId0146_101]
Introduction The North Kenya GIS Database project was created (by Andrea Bottcher for GTZ at UNEP/GRID) by joining datasets which existed in 9 North Kenya districts in 1996. The original datasets ...


50. Kenya Administrative Units, Drainage, Agro-Climatic Zones, Rainfall, Infrastructure [NBId0083_101]
Description: These datasets (Administrative Units, Drainage, Agro-Climatic Zones, Rainfall, Infrastructure) were scanned by the Canadian Land data Systems Division, Land Directorate, Dept of Environment, ...


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