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2000 Pilot Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)
Entry ID: CIESIN_SEDAC_ESI_2000

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Summary
Abstract: The 2000 Pilot Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) is an exploratory effort to construct an index that measures the ability of a nation's economy to achieve sustainable development, with the long term goal of finding a single indicator for environmental sustainability analagous to that of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The index covering 56 countries is a composite measure of the current ... View entire text

Purpose: To test the feasibility of creating a comparative index of national-level environmental sustainability.
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Geographic Coverage
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Spatial coordinates   
  N: 90.0   S: -55.0   E: 180.0   W: -180.0

Data Set Citation
Dataset Originator/Creator: World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Leaders for Tomorrow Environment Task Force, Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (YCELP)/Yale University, and Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)/Columbia University
Dataset Title: 2000 Pilot Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)
Dataset Release Date: 2000
Dataset Release Place: New Haven, CT
Dataset Publisher: Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (YCELP)/Yale University
Version: 2000.00
Data Presentation Form: document
Online Resource: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/esi-pilot-environmental-s...
Temporal Coverage
Start Date: 1978-01-01
Stop Date: 1999-12-31
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Data Resolution
Latitude Resolution: 0.25 deg.
Longitude Resolution: 0.25 deg.
Horizontal Resolution Range: 10 km - < 50 km or approximately .09 degree - < .5 degree
Vertical Resolution: Approx 80 km (atmospheric column)
Vertical Resolution Range: Vertical Resolution Ranges
Temporal Resolution: Approx one day
Temporal Resolution Range: Hourly - < Daily
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Platform
AURA > Aura Ancillary Description
Instrument
OMI > Ozone Monitoring Instrument Ancillary Description
Project
Quality The 'version 003' product is the second public release. It is based on
improved radiance calibration. For details, please see document:
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~tkurosu/SatelliteInstruments/OMI/PGERel...
Use Constraints This Data set (version 003/second public release) is better than
the earlier version but it is not fully validated yet. Before using it
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Ancillary Keywords
Originating Center
OMI SIPS
Data Center
Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (formerly Goddard DAAC), Global Change Data Center, Earth Sciences Division, Science and Exploration Directorate, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Supplemental Info
Data Center URL: http://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Dataset ID: OMHCHOG

Data Center Personnel
Name: GES DISC HELP DESK SUPPORT GROUP
Phone: 301-614-5224
Fax: 301-614-5268
Email: gsfc-help-disc at lists.nasa.gov
Contact Address:
Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center
Code 610.2
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
City: Greenbelt
Province or State: MD
Postal Code: 20771
Country: USA
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Distribution
Distribution Media: FTP
Distribution Size: Approx 55 MB per file
Distribution Format: HDF-EOS5
Fees: None
Personnel
KELLY CHANCE, PH. D
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: 617-495-7389
Fax: 617-495-5439
Email: kchance at cfa.harvard.edu
Contact Address:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
60 Garden Street
Mail Stop 50
City: Cambridge
Province or State: MA
Postal Code: 02138
Country: USA
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Publications/References
Ahmad, S. P., P. F. Levelt, P. K. Bhartia, E. Hilsenrath,
G. W. Leppelmeier, and J. E. Johnson, Atmospheric Products from the
Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI), Proceedings of SPIE conference on
Earth Observing Systems VIII, San Diego, California, Aug 3-8,
2003. http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/acdisc/ozone/docs/omi-spie-2003.doc

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Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2008-07-09
Last DIF Revision Date: 2013-04-29

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