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South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity - Fish Collection

Entry ID: saiab

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Summary

Abstract: 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, the Scientific 'home' of the Coelacanth. Their National Fish Collection is the largest collection of southern African fish anywhere in the world. It is the largest fish collection in Africa and the second largest in the southern hemisphere, and is included in FISHBASE. It currently contains 42582 records of 319 families. This dataset has been updated in August 2009.

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Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: 90.0

S: -90.0

E: 180.0

W: -180.0

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, South Africa

Dataset Title: Fish Collection

Dataset Release Place: Grahamstown, South Africa

Dataset Publisher: AfrOBIS, South Africa

Parent DIF

This data set description is a member of a collection. The collection is described in
OBIS.Fishbase

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1888-01-01

Stop Date: 2009-06-04

Location Keywords

OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN

OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > ARABIAN SEA > PERSIAN GULF

Science Keywords

CRYOSPHERE > GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS

TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS

CRYOSPHERE > GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS > GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE

TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS > GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE

ISO Topic Category

GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION

INLAND WATERS

Platform

GRACE > Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment

Instrument

GRACE LRR > Laser Retro-Reflector

Ancillary Keywords

Climate Diagnostics

Data Center

Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Earth Sciences Division, Science and Exploration Directorate, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA

Data Center URL: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/

Data Center Personnel
Name: JAMES E. HANSEN Email: James.E.Hansen at nasa.gov Contact Address: NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies 2880 Broadway City: New York Province or State: NY Postal Code: 10025 Country: USA

Publications/References

Hansen, J.E., and Mki. Sato (2011), Paleoclimate implications for human-made climate change., submitted, In Climate Change at the Eve of the Second Decade of the Century: Inferences from Paleoclimate and Regional Aspects: Proceedings of the Milutin Milankovitch 130th Anniversary Symposium, http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/notyet/inpress_Hansen_Sato.pdf

Velicogna, I. (2009), Increasing rates of ice mass loss from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets revealed by GRACE., 36, Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:doi:10.1029/2009GL040222, http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2009/2009GL040222.shtml

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2011-08-11

Last DIF Revision Date: 2011-08-12

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