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1. Global 30-Arc-Second Elevation Data Set [GTOPO30]
Digital elevation model (DEM) data are sampled arrays of surface elevations in raster form. A DEM provides elevation values in rows and columns, corresponding to a regular grid of points on the Earth's ...


2. Landsat Thematic Mapper Imagery [Landsat_TM]
The idea of a civilian Earth resources satellite was conceived in the Department of Interior in the mid-1960s. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) ...


3. World Maps from the U.S. Geological Survey [WORLD_MAPS]
The USGS provides a series of planetary maps featuring more than 750 titles. These include selected maps of the Moon, Venus, Mercury, Mars, and the moons of Jupiter. Planetary maps are available ...


4. Landsat-7 Calibration Parameter File V002 [L7CPF2]
The Landsat-7 satellite was launched on April 15, 1999. The Calibration team has recently documented that the gains of the reflective bands have degraded over the past 14 years. On April 1, 2013, ...


5. Landsat Multispectral Scanner (MSS) Imagery [LANDSAT_MSS]
Landsat multispectral scanner (MSS) data from the Landsat satellite series are available from the National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive located at the U.S. Geological Survey's EROS ...


6. Landsat 8 [Landsat_8]
This data set is a raster file containing global information for bands 1 through 11 for Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) and Thermal Land Imager (TIRS).


7. Compendium of Environmental Sustainability Indicator Collections: 2004 Environmental Vulnerability Index (EVI) [CIESIN_SEDAC_CESIC_2004EVI]
The 2004 Environmental Vulnerability Index (EVI) portion of the Compendium of Environmental Sustainability Indicator Collections contains 111 variables for 235 countries and territories. This index ...


8. 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 ...


9. RESURS-O1 data from Eurimage [EURIMAGE_RESURS]
Eurimage is bridging the gap between AVHRR's 1 km resolution and Landsat TM's 30 metres with data obtained from the RESURS-O1-3 satellite from Russia. Launched in November 1994, this third satellite ...


10. HANPP Collection: Human Appropriation of Net Primary Productivity (HANPP) by Country and Product [CIESIN_SEDAC_HANPP_CPROD]
The Human Appropriation of Net Primary Productivity (HANPP) by Country and Product portion of the HANPP Collection contains tabular data on carbon-equivalents of consumption by country and by type ...


11. Cariaco Basin G. bulloides Abundance Data [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_2000-005]
Cariaco Basin G. bulloides Abundance Data Latitude: 10?45.46' N Longitude: 64?41.68' W Bathymetry: 395 m Variable names: Depth in core, Age, G. bulloides abundance ...


12. World Glacier Inventory [G01130]
The World Glacier Inventory (WGI) contains information for over 130,000 glaciers. Inventory parameters include geographic location, area, length, orientation, elevation, and classification. The WGI ...


13. MODIS/Terra Snow Cover 5-Min L2 Swath 500m, Version 4 [MOD10_L2]
MODIS/Terra Snow Cover 5-Min L2 Swath 500m (MOD10_L2) contains snow cover and quality assurance (QA) data, latitudes, and longitudes in HDF-EOS format, along with corresponding metadata. Latitude ...


14. MODIS/Terra Snow Cover 5-Min L2 Swath 500m, Version 5 [MOD10_L2V5]
The MODIS/Terra Snow Cover 5-Min L2 Swath 500m (MOD10_L2) data set contains snow cover and Quality Assessment (QA) data, latitudes and longitudes in compressed Hierarchical Data Format-Earth Observing ...


15. IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) Observed Climate Change Impacts Database [CIESIN_SEDAC_IPCC_OBSERVED]
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessement Report (AR4) Observed Climate Change Impacts Database contains observed responses to climate change across a wide range of systems ...


16. Regional Paleogeographic Views of Earth History [Blakey_Paleogeographic_Maps]
[From Global Earth History home page by Ron Blakey, "http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rcb7/globaltext.html"] This presentation uses a series of paleogeographic and plate-tectonic reconstructions ...


17. Global Land One-km Base Elevation (GLOBE) Project [gov.noaa.ngdc.mgg.dem.280]
ABSTRACT: GLOBE is a project to develop the best available 30-arc-second (nominally 1 kilometer) global digital elevation data set. This version of GLOBE contains data from 11 sources, and 17 combinations ...


18. Aliens in Antarctica - Clothing Item and Propagule data [Aliens_in_Antarctica_visitor_data]   PARENT DIF
In the 2007/2008 southern summer season a stratified random selection of travellers to the Antarctic were sampled for propagules on their way to Antarctica or sub-Antarctic islands. This dataset ...


19. U.S. Navy Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC)'s Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System (NOGAPS) [NOGAPS]   CHILD DIFs
The Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) data contains atmospheric and oceanographic parameters based on the 12-hour forecasts by the Hemispheric Primitive Equation Model and ...


20. U.S. Navy Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center's (FNMOC) NOGAPS Computational Grids [NOGAPS_COMP]   PARENT DIF
Four times daily global forcing fields from the US Navy NOGAPS model on 720X360 (averaged resolution of 0.5 degree) Gaussian computational grids. Notice: These are Gaussian grids, not evenly spaced ...


21. ISRIC-WISE Harmonized Global Soil Profile Dataset (ver. 3.1) [ISRIC_WISE_GlobalProfileDataSet_ver3_1]
Version 3.1 of the ISRIC-WISE database (WISE3) was compiled from a wide range of soil profile data collected by many soil professionals worldwide. All profiles have been harmonized with respect to ...


22. MODIS/Aqua Coarse Snow Cover 5-Min L2 Swath 5km, Version 5 [MYD10L2C]
The MODIS/Aqua Coarse Snow Cover 5-Min L2 Swath 5km (MOD10L2C) data set contains snow cover and Quality Assessment (QA) data, latitudes and longitudes in compressed Hierarchical Data Format-Earth ...


23. MODIS/Terra Coarse Snow Cover 5-Min L2 Swath 5km, Version 5 [MOD10L2C]
The MODIS/Terra Coarse Snow Cover 5-Min L2 Swath 5km (MOD10L2C) data set contains snow cover and Quality Assessment (QA) data, latitudes and longitudes in compressed Hierarchical Data Format-Earth ...


24. East London Museum - Mollusc Collection [elm_molluscs]
The East London (EL) Museum's major natural history collections are molluscs and birds.They also have smaller collections of other marine invertebrates, mammals, skeletons (mammals), reptiles, palaeontology, ...


25. Circumpolar Active-Layer Permafrost System (CAPS) [G01175]
The Circumpolar Active-Layer Permafrost System (CAPS) CD-ROM contains data sets and information products pertaining to permafrost and frozen ground topics. CAPS was originally compiled by the International ...


26. Trace Elements in Kilimanjaro Ice [mosley-thompson_0820779]
To date there is a lack of knowledge of the composition of the past African atmosphere, especially at high elevations. As aerosols play an important role in the climate system, the assessment of their ...


27. Aerosol optical thickness [UM0506_26_aerosol_optical]
The aerosol optical thickness was measured with a sunphotometer. The measurement was conducted only clear sky condition.


28. Atmospheric aerosol number concentration [UM0506_28_atmospheric_aerosol]
The atmospheric aerosol number concentration was measured with an optical particle counter. Ambient air was sampled with an inlet located on the upper deck.


29. Metal concentration in atmospheric aerosols [UM0506_27_metal_concentration]
The metal concentration in atmospheric aerosols was measured with an ICP-MS. The aerosol was collected on a Teflon filter in a weather shield located on the front of upper deck. To avoid a ship exhaust ...


30. Size distribution of suspended particles [UM0506_29_size_distribution]
The size distribution of suspended particles was measured with an coulter counter. The size distribution is an important factor in scattering process of radiative transfer in water.


31. Southern Ocean size segregated aerosol chemistry and number size distribution during Umitaka-maru 08/09 cruise [UM0809_32_aerosol]
The aerosols, anmonium gas and ozon concentrations of atmosphere were obtained for the cruise of Umitaka-maru UM 08/09. The number size distributions of aerosols were measured using two optical particle ...


32. Aerosol optical thickness [UM0405_26_aerosol_optical]
The aerosol optical thickness was measured with a sunphotometer. The measurement was conducted only clear sky condition.


33. Metal concentration in atmospheric aerosols [UM0405_27_metal_concentration]
The metal concentration in atmospheric aerosols was measured with an ICP-MS. The aerosol was collected on a Teflon filter in a weather shield located on the front of upper deck. To avoid a ship exhaust ...


34. Size distribution of suspended particles [UM0405_29_size_distribution]
The size distribution of suspended particles was measured with an coulter counter. The size distribution is an important factor in scattering process of radiative transfer in water.


35. The World Radiation Monitoring Center (WRMC) Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) [BSRN_RADIATION_NETWORK]
[Source: Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) home page, http://www.bsrn.awi.de/ ] BSRN is a project of the Radiation Panel from the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment GEWEX under the ...


36. Global Bathymetric and Topographic Data in a 5-Minute Grid Available from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography [SIO_PORD_ETOPO5]
The ETOPO5 data set consists of global bathymetric and topographic data in a 5-minute grid. Users can subset the data for various grid resolutions (5min, 10min, 15min, 30min, 1deg, 2deg, ...


37. ICE Protected Area Biological Inventory Database [UC_ICE_biologicalinventory]
The ICE Biological Inventories of the World's Protected Areas provide a global information system of documented inventories of plants and animals reported to occur on the world's protected ...


38. USPRR Continuing Operations Proposal [USPRRContinuingOpsreport]
Recognition of the need for a polar rock repository grew from within NSF to help fulfill obligations under the Antarctic Treaty for greater international data access and to diminish the operational ...


39. Air-Water Distribution of POPs Along a North-South Atlantic Transect [ECA014]
To study the transport of POPs from the northern hemisphere to the southern, cruises were carried out collecting aerosol and surface water samples where different classes of organic pollutants were ...


40. BYU High Resolution Images of Seasat Sigma0 Measurements [NSIDC-0258]
The Seasat scatterometer (SASS) provided normalized radar cross section (sigma0) measurements of the Earth's surface. SASS data were acquired at 4.45 km resolution. While originally designed for wind ...


41. Vector Map Level 0 (VMap0) and Vector Map Level 1 (VMap1) [Canada_CTI_VMAP0]
The Vector Map Level 0 (VMap0) and Vector Map Level 1 (VMap1) databases are designed to provide vector-based geospatial data at low (VMap0) and medium (VMap1) resolutions. ...


42. South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity - Fish Collection [saiab]   PARENT DIF
The South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB) is a National Research Facility of the National Research Foundation (NRF). It was formerly known as the JLB Smith Institute of Ichthyology, ...


43. iziko South African Museum - Marine Mammals Collection [IZIKO_Marine_Mammals]
The iziko South African Museum has a comprehensive collection of cetacean and Cape fur seal skeletal material. Skeletal material from other marine mammals is also held. Part of this collection ...


44. Met Office - Global Radiosonde Data (1997 - Present) [BADC_GLOBAL_RADIOSONDE]
This dataset consists of radiosonde data from stations worldwide. Stations are categorised into 7 regions: Africa, Asia, South America, North and Central America, South-West Pacific, Europe, ...


45. Landsat TM and MSS data from Eurimage [EURIMAGE_LANDSAT]
Eurimage distributes, in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, Landsat data received at the following European Space Agency (ESA) ground receiving stations: Fucino ...


46. Past and Present Weather Data and Analysis Software from Unidata via WWW [UNIDATA]
"http://unidata.ucar.edu/" Participation in the Unidata community allows users (primarily educators and researchers), to access data and visualization software to explore earth-system ...


47. Ras Umm Sidd Coral Oxygen Isotope Data, NOAA/NCDC/WDC Paleoclimatology [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_2000-067]   CHILD DIFs
This data set consists of Ras Umm Sidd bimonthly coral oxygen isotope data (coral core RUS-95). [Abstract] A 245-year coral oxygen isotope record from the northern Red Sea ...


48. iziko South African Museum - Mollusc Collection [iziko_molluscs]
The iziko South African Museum's mollusc collection of southern African species is the second largest mollusc collection in southern Africa. Significant additions were made in the past ...


49. iziko South African Museum - Shark Collection [iziko_sharks]
This collection has global holdings. It includes numerous representatives of eight of the shark groups, most representatives of the Batoids and Chimaeras, including rare species. Significant ...


50. iziko South African Museum - Fish Collection [IZIKO_Fish]
The iziko South African Museum has a comprehensive holdings comprising of identified bony and cartilaginous fish, mostly from Cape waters, but extending to Angola and Mozambique ...


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