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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. soil sampling from long-term climate manipulation plots in Zackenberg, Greenland in 2011 [KPDC_SSLMP_GREENLAND_2011]
There are two long-term monitoring plots which have different dominated plant species (Cassiope tetragona and Salix arctica) in Zackenberg. Each plot has five climate manipulation treatment with five ...


7. Eddy covariance data of Alaska permafrost site in 2012 summer [KDPC_ECD_ALASKA_2012]
Eddy covariance data obtained at a permafrost site of Council, Alaska, USA


8. Soil samples in Alaska in 2010 [KPDC_SS_ALA_2010]
Soil samples in Alaska in 2010


9. Soil samples in Alaska in 2011 [KPDC_SS_ALA_2011]
Soil samples in Alaska in 2011


10. Soil samples near Cambridge Bay of Canada in 2012 [KPDC_SS_CBC_2012]
Soil samples near Cambridge Bay of Canada in 2012


11. Concentration of atmospheric carbon monoxide: 2012 Arctic and Northwestern Pacific Oceans [KPDC_CACM_ARCTIC_2012]
Atmospheric carbon monoxide in the marine boundary layer was monitored from July 14 to September 24 by the LGR CO/N2O analyzer along the cruise track of R/V Araon in the Northwestern Pacific and the ...


12. Concentration of atmospheric mercury: 2012 Arctic and Northwestern Pacific Oceans [KPDC_CAM_ARCTIC_2012]
Measuring atmospheric Hg in the marine boundary layer


13. Concentration of atmospheric ozone: 2012 Arctic and Northwestern Pacific Oceans [KPDC_CAOZONE_ARCTIC_2012]
Measuring atmospheric ozone in the marine boundary layer


14. Concentrations of atmospheric NO and NO2: 2012 Arctic and Northwestern Pacific Oceans [KPDC_CANOX_ARCTIC_2012]
Atmospheric NOx (NO+NO2) predominantly comes from pollution driven by human-activities and biomass burning, and plays an critical precursor of O3 formation in the troposphere. Satellite observations ...


15. Concentrations of atmospheric volatile organic compounds (VOCs): 2012 Northwestern Pacific Oceans [KPDC_CAVOC_ARCTIC_2012]
Atmospheric volatile organic compounds in the marine boundary layer was monitored from July 14 to September 24 by the PTR-TOF-MS (Proton Transfer Reaction Time of Flight Mass Spectrometer) along the ...


16. 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).


17. The Atlas of Canada - Printed Maps and Scanned Map Archive [Canada_CCRS_NatlAtlasPrMaps]
The Atlas Map Collection provides coverage of the entire Canadian landmass. This collection contains base maps, maps of the National Atlas of Canada, 5th edition and other thematic maps prepared by ...


18. 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 ...


19. 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 ...


20. Lake Chichancanab Isotope and Mineralogy Data: Central American Drought and the Classic Maya Civilization [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_2001-014]
Oxygen isotope and sediment composition data from Lake Chichancanab, Mexico. The data are interpreted as a moisture balance proxy, and indicate drought conditions in the years 800-1000 AD, corresponding ...


21. 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 ...


22. Transient and Rapid Glacial Motions, including Glacial Earthquakes [rice_0739444]
(1) This award originally supported a project to study the mode of formation and causes of glacial earthquakes -- which we argued [Tsai et al., J. Geophys. Res., 2008] to be affiliated with iceberg ...


23. Marine mammals exploring the oceans pole to pole [org.polarresearch-598]
Marine Mammals Exploring the Oceans Pole to Pole (MEOP) will deploy state-of-the-art animal-borne CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth) tags on strategically chosen, deep-diving marine mammal species ...


24. Checklist of insect species from the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic - 1954 [Antarctic_subantarctic_insects_checklist_1954]
Copied of a scanned document containing a check list from 1954 of known insect species from the Antarctic and sub-antarctic. Taken from the report: This check list contains all known records of ...


25. Isolation, identification, and diversity analysis of bacteria able to degrade humic substances from Alaska tundra soil [KPDC_IIDABATDHS_ATS_2012]
Three different kinds of soil humic substances were extracted from soil and plant debris samples in cold environments of Alaska tundra region. A total of 143 cold-adapted bacterial strains having ...


26. Collaborative Research: Molecular Level Characterization of Organic Matter in Ice Cores using High-resolution FTICR mass spectrometry [hatcher_0739684]
This award supports a project to fully develop the analytical protocols needed to exploit a relatively new technique for the analysis of soluble organic matter in ice core samples. The technique couples ...


27. Climate and the Classic Maya Civilization Slide Set [G02096]
For over a decade, archaeologists have been trying to unlock the mystery surrounding one ancient society's collapse of the Classic Maya. Did human-induced sociopolitical or ecological change cause ...


28. 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 ...


29. Arctic Environmental Change of the Last Four Centuries [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_ARCTIC]
Abstract (from the online documentation): A compilation of paleoclimate records from lake sediments, trees, glaciers, and marine sediments provides a view of circum-Arctic environmental variability ...


30. Baffin Island 1250 Year Summer Temperature Reconstruction [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_2003-075]
Data consists of summer temperature reconstruction based on laminae thickness in sediments from Donard Lake, Baffin Island, Canada. ABSTRACT (from the online documentation): Clastic varved sediments ...


31. Eastern Oregon NOAA Climate Divisions 7 and 8 PDSI and Precipitation Reconstructions, 1705-1979 [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_96-029]
These data are reconstructed drought index and precipitation for NOAA Oregon climate divisions 7 and 8, derived from tree-ring data by Gregg M. Garfin and Dr. Malcolm K. Hughes of the Laboratory of ...


32. El Malpais Precipitation Reconstruction [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_96-002]
Water Year Annual Precipitation Reconstruction at El Malpais National Monument near Grants, New Mexico. The tree-ring chronology associated with this reconstruction can be found in the holdings ...


33. Mapping Eastern North America Vegetation Change Over the Past 18,000 Years [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_94-007]
These maps are based on 11,700 fossil pollen samples and 1744 modern pollen samples. Twenty-one pollen taxa were included in analyses: Alnus, Fraxinum, Populus, Tilia, Fagus, Betula, Ulmus, Abies, ...


34. Multi-Millennial Nevada Precipitation Reconstruction [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_2000-049]
This data set consists of reconstructed precipitation for Nevada Climate Division 3, annual July through June. Trees used for the reconstruction are bristlecone pine from Methuselah Walk, White ...


35. Sacramento River Annual Flow Reconstruction [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_2001-081]
This data set consists of reconstruction of total annual flow, in millions of acre/feet, of the Sacramento River, based on tree ring chronologies from 869-1977 AD.


36. Southwestern USA Linear Regression and Neural Network Precipitation Reconstructions, NOAA/NCDC/WDC Paleoclimatology [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_2002-080]
This data set consists of a comparison of the linear regression and neural network models for precipitation reconstruction from a network of tree ring chronologies. Data include the reconstructed ...


37. Upper Colorado River Flow Reconstruction [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_2007-052]
New tree-ring records of ring-width from remnant preserved wood are analyzed to extend the record of reconstructed annual flows of the Colorado River at Lee Ferry into the Medieval Climate ...


38. Automatic Weather Station 10 minute Observation data for Antarctica, Greenland, and Peru [SSEC-AWS-AWS_10minute]
The AWS Project involves collecting meteorological data from an array of Automatic Weather Stations in Antarctica, Greenland, and Peru. This data is freely available on our ftp site in a couple of ...


39. Automatic Weather Station 3-hour Observation data for Antarctica, Greenland, and Peru [SSEC-AWS-AWS_3hour]
The AWS Project involves collecting meteorological data from an array of Automatic Weather Stations in Antarctica, Greenland, and Peru. This data is freely available on our ftp site in a couple of ...


40. DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Pathfinder Daily EASE-Grid Brightness Temperatures [NSIDC-0032]
This Level-3 Equal-Area Scalable Earth-Grid (EASE-Grid) Brightness Temperature data set, collected since 09 July 1987, is a part of the NOAA/NASA Pathfinder Program. The data set consists of gridded ...


41. Microstructural Location and Composition of Impurities in Polar Ice Cores [NSIDC-0436]
This data set contains measurements of impurities and ions in three polar ice cores: the Vostok 5G ice core and the Byrd ice core from Antarctica, and the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 (GISP2) D core. ...


42. Adjusted Monthly Precipitation, Snowfall and Rainfall for Canada (1874-1990) [NSIDC-0072]
This data set was distributed by NSIDC until October, 2003, when it was withdrawn from distribution because it duplicates the NOAA National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) data set TD-9816 'Canadian Monthly ...


43. Alkanes in Firn Air Samples, Antarctica and Greenland [NSIDC-0504]
This data set contains ethane, propane, and n-butane measurements in firn air from the South Pole and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide in Antarctica, and from Summit, Greenland. The WAIS ...


44. Bootstrap Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS [NSIDC-0079]
This sea ice concentration data set was derived using measurements from the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) on the Nimbus-7 satellite and from the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager ...


45. DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Daily Polar Gridded Brightness Temperatures [NSIDC-0001]
NSIDC produces daily gridded brightness temperature data from orbital swath data generated by the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) aboard the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) ...


46. Enhanced-Resolution SSM/I and AMSR-E Daily Polar Brightness Temperatures [NSIDC-0464]
Notice to data users: The AMSR-E 89.0 GHz data provided here are currently at 12.5 km resolution, in 1441x1441 arrays. Updated, enhanced AMSR-E 89.0 GHz data will replace the 12.5 km data as soon ...


47. Historical Arctic and Antarctic Surface Observational Data [NSIDC-0190]
This product consists of meteorological data from 105 Arctic weather stations and 137 Antarctic stations, extracted from the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)'s Integrated Surface Hourly (ISH) ...


48. Methane Measurements from the GISP2 and Siple Dome Ice Cores [NSIDC-0440]
This data set contains methane measurements made in trapped air in the Holocene sections of two ice cores: the Siple Dome ice core in Antarctica, and the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 (GISP2) ice ...


49. Nimbus-7 SMMR Polar Gridded Radiances and Sea Ice Concentrations [NSIDC-0007]
This data set contains gridded brightness temperatures and sea ice concentrations for both polar regions. It spans the period from October 1978 through August 1987, when the Nimbus-7 SMMR scanner ...


50. Sea Ice Trends and Climatologies from SMMR and SSM/I-SSMIS [NSIDC-0192]
NSIDC provides a suite of value-added products to aid in investigations of the variability and trends of sea ice cover. These products provide users with information about sea ice extent, total ice-covered ...


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