Global Change Master Directory gsfc-gcmduso@mail.nasa.gov 50 2013-05-24T07:47:23Z http://mddemo.gsfc.nasa.gov/KeywordSearch/OpenSearch.do 1847 0 http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS330.0 2006-10-01T00:00:00Z 2006-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

This datasets holds all 2006 TIGGE data archived on the NCAR MSS. The archive ranges from Oct 1, 2006 to Dec 31, 2006. Ensemble model data are archived from the European Center for Medium-Range Weather ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NCAR_DS330.1 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z 2007-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-23T04:00:00Z

This datasets holds all 2007 TIGGE data archived on the NCAR MSS. The archive ranges from Jan 1, 2006 to current available data. Ensemble model data are archived from the European Center for Medium-Range ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]geodata_1106 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,-60.5033 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z 2007-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-20T04:00:00Z

Pesticides Consumption corresponds to the quantities of pesticides used in (or sold to) the agricultural sector. Figures are generally expressed in terms of active ingredients data. Herbicides include: ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]geodata_1109 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,-60.5033 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z 2007-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-20T04:00:00Z

Pesticides Consumption corresponds to the quantities of pesticides used in (or sold to) the agricultural sector. Figures are generally expressed in terms of active ingredients data. Insecticides ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]geodata_1112 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,-60.5033 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z 2007-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-20T04:00:00Z

Pesticides Consumption corresponds to the quantities of pesticides used in (or sold to) the agricultural sector. Figures are generally expressed in terms of active ingredients data.

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]geodata_1115 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,-60.5033 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z 2007-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-20T04:00:00Z

Pesticides Consumption corresponds to the quantities of pesticides used in (or sold to) the agricultural sector. Figures are generally expressed in terms of active ingredients data.

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]geodata_1118 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,-60.5033 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z 2007-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-20T04:00:00Z

Pesticides Consumption corresponds to the quantities of pesticides used in (or sold to) the agricultural sector. Figures are generally expressed in terms of active ingredients data. Rodenticides ...

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Annual gross quantity of water produced and used for agricultural, industrial and domestic purposes. It does not include other in situ-uses :energy, mining, recreation, navigation, fisheries and the ...

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The Forest Carbon Tracking Task (GEO FCT) has been established to support countries wanting to establish national forest-change, carbon estimation and reporting systems. It will facilitate access ...

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The Forest Carbon Tracking Task (GEO FCT) has been established to support countries wanting to establish national forest-change, carbon estimation and reporting systems. It will facilitate access ...

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The Forest Carbon Tracking Task (GEO FCT) has been established to support countries wanting to establish national forest-change, carbon estimation and reporting systems. It will facilitate access ...

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The Forest Carbon Tracking Task (GEO FCT) has been established to support countries wanting to establish national forest-change, carbon estimation and reporting systems. It will facilitate access ...

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The Forest Carbon Tracking Task (GEO FCT) has been established to support countries wanting to establish national forest-change, carbon estimation and reporting systems. It will facilitate access ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]USGS_FCT_Democratic_Republic_of_Congo 10.24,-14.01,32.92,6.82 1972-07-27T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-05-13T04:00:00Z

The Forest Carbon Tracking Task (GEO FCT) has been established to support countries wanting to establish national forest-change, carbon estimation and reporting systems. It will facilitate access ...

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The Forest Carbon Tracking Task (GEO FCT) has been established to support countries wanting to establish national forest-change, carbon estimation and reporting systems. It will facilitate access ...

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The Forest Carbon Tracking Task (GEO FCT) has been established to support countries wanting to establish national forest-change, carbon estimation and reporting systems. It will facilitate access ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]USGS_FCT_Nepal 78.11,24.98,89.95,31.3 1975-02-25T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-05-13T04:00:00Z

The Forest Carbon Tracking Task (GEO FCT) has been established to support countries wanting to establish national forest-change, carbon estimation and reporting systems. It will facilitate access ...

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The Forest Carbon Tracking Task (GEO FCT) has been established to support countries wanting to establish national forest-change, carbon estimation and reporting systems. It will facilitate access ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]USGS_FCT_Sumatra 94.3,-6.77,107.33,6.82 1974-03-16T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-05-13T04:00:00Z

The Forest Carbon Tracking Task (GEO FCT) has been established to support countries wanting to establish national forest-change, carbon estimation and reporting systems. It will facilitate access ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]USGS_FCT_Tanzania 27.33,-12.57,42.56,1.03 1972-09-10T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-05-13T04:00:00Z

The Forest Carbon Tracking Task (GEO FCT) has been established to support countries wanting to establish national forest-change, carbon estimation and reporting systems. It will facilitate access ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]USGS_FCT_Tasmania_Island 142.02,-44.2,151.0,-39.28 1972-08-25T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-05-13T04:00:00Z

The Forest Carbon Tracking Task (GEO FCT) has been established to support countries wanting to establish national forest-change, carbon estimation and reporting systems. It will facilitate access ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]USGS_FCT_Thailand 95.55,4.79,107.01,21.26 1972-11-11T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-05-13T04:00:00Z

The Forest Carbon Tracking Task (GEO FCT) has been established to support countries wanting to establish national forest-change, carbon estimation and reporting systems. It will facilitate access ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]USGS_JECAM_Canada_Red_River -101.24,47.87,-94.24,51.25 2011-05-17T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-05-13T04:00:00Z

Joint Experiment for Crop Assessment and Monitoring The overarching goal of JECAM is to reach a convergence of approaches, develop monitoring and reporting protocols and best practices for a variety ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]USGS_JECAM_Canada_South_Nation -78.12,43.62,-72.9,46.99 2011-05-25T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-05-13T04:00:00Z

Joint Experiment for Crop Assessment and Monitoring The overarching goal of JECAM is to reach a convergence of approaches, develop monitoring and reporting protocols and best practices for a variety ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]USGS_EARTHSHOTS -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-05-10T04:00:00Z

Earthshots is an ebook of before-and-after Landsat images (1972-present), showing recent environmental events and introducing remote sensing. Earthshots comes from the U.S. Geological Survey's EROS ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]geodata_0932 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,-60.5033 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z 2007-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-07T04:00:00Z

AQUACULTURE PRODUCTION The annual series of aquaculture production begin in 1950 for the quantities and in 1984 for the values. Aquaculture is the farming of aquatic organisms including fish, mollusks, ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]geodata_0839 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,-60.5033 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z 2009-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-07T04:00:00Z

Cereals also includes other cereals such as mixed grains and buckwheat. The data reported under this element represent the harvested production per unit of harvested area for crop products. In most ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]geodata_0930 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,-60.5033 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z 2010-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-07T04:00:00Z

Forest Average Annual Change ? Total is the net change in forests and includes expansion of forest plantations and losses and gains in the area of natural forests. Total Forest includes natural forests ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]geodata_0960 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,-60.5033 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z 2005-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-07T04:00:00Z

Forest Fire Extent - Annual Average comprises the reported forest areas exposed to fire. Total Forest includes natural forests and forest plantations. The term is used to refer to land with a tree ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]EOSWEBSTER_Global_Ref -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2013-05-07T04:00:00Z

The Global Model Reference Collection contains 3 datasets that have been used extensively in various biogeochemical process models, in addition to some basic data layers used in analyzing and aggregating ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]MEAR_29 -178.0,-85.0,176.0,81.0 2013-05-07T04:00:00Z

Cultivated system boundary for the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) based on version 2 of the Global Land Cover Characteristics Dataset (GLCCD v2.0, USGS/EDC 2000). This dataset delineates the ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]KPDC_MAT_ARCTIC_2010 2013-05-01T04:00:00Z

Unique physiological and metabolic properties of Arctic mosses are responsible for their acclimation to the inclement polar environment. To perform transcriptome analysis of an Arctic moss species ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]KPDC_PD_ANTARCTIC_2008 2013-05-01T04:00:00Z

Deschampsia antarctica is the only monocot that thrives in the tough conditions of the Antarctic region. It is an invaluable resource for the identification of genes associated with tolerance to various ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NAPP -126.0,24.0,-66.0,49.0 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z 2007-02-11T00:00:00Z 2013-04-29T04:00:00Z

The National Aerial Photography Program (NAPP) is an inter-agency Federal effort coordinated by the USGS, which uses NAPP products to revise maps. Other agencies have varied uses for these photographs, ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GES_DISC_OMNO2_CPR_V003 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2004-08-17T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-04-29T04:00:00Z

This is a CloudSat-collocated subset of the original product OMNO2, for the purposes of the A-Train mission. The goal of the subset is to select and return OMI data that are within +-100 km across ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]geodata_0771 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,-60.5033 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-04-25T04:00:00Z

Arable Land: land under temporary crops (double-cropped areas are counted only once), temporary meadows for mowing or pasture, land under market and kitchen gardens and land temporarily fallow (less ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]geodata_0691 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,-60.5033 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-04-25T04:00:00Z

Permanent Crops: Land cultivated with crops that occupy the land for long periods and need not be replanted after each harvest, such as cocoa, coffee and rubber; this category includes land under ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]AQUAECO -127.88,22.87,-65.35,48.25 2013-04-22T04:00:00Z

Ecoregions are based on perceived patterns of a combination of causal and integrative factors including land use, land surface form, potential natural vegetation, and soils (Omernik, 1987). This is ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]KPDC_PD_ANTARCTIC_2010 2013-04-19T04:00:00Z

Quantitative real time PCR is the most sensitive and widely used method for the analysis of gene expression. The choice of one or several reference genes is very important for a normalization process, ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]FIRMS_MODIS_Active_Fire_Data -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2013-04-16T04:00:00Z

Web Fire Mapper is an internet based mapping tool that delivers locations of active fires in near real time. For selected regions and countries you can view an interactive map showing active fires ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NA_TREEAGE 179.251,7.7126,-39.866,67.008 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z 2006-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-04-12T04:00:00Z

This data set provides forest age map products at 1-km resolution for Canada and the United States (U.S.A.). These continental forest age maps were compiled from forest inventory data, historical ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]geodata_0368 -27.72,34.56,68.1,85.21 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z 1987-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-04-08T04:00:00Z

The digital version of the Vegetation Map of the European Communities and the Council of Europe held by GRID covers all of Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GB-NERC-BAS-PDC-00504 2007-11-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-31T00:00:00Z 2013-04-05T04:00:00Z

Geological and biological sampling associated with recolonisation histories. BIOFLAME will study the DNA &fingerprints& of biological evolution to trace the way species adapt to environmental extremes ...

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The Soil Map of the European Communities was digitized by June 1986 from the original map at a scale of one to 1 000 000. There were two layers of the map which were integrated for the CORINE Project ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GB-NERC-BAS-PDC-00516 2013-03-29T04:00:00Z

FLEXICON is investigating the life-cycles of some of the world''s most durable and abundant organisms that are vital to the Earth''s systems. Marine organism in the Southern Ocean must endure one ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gpmoumesmc3e -103.0,33.28,-94.0,37.0 2011-04-22T00:00:00Z 2011-06-06T00:00:00Z 2013-03-29T04:00:00Z

The GPM Ground Validation Oklahoma Climatological Survey Mesonet MC3E data were collected during the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) in central Oklahoma during the April???June ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GB-NERC-BAS-PDC-00478 18.81667,68.21,18.85361,68.3256427.01667,69.49162,27.2341,69.75 2013-03-29T04:00:00Z

One of the key uncertainties in the interpretation of landscape scale C flux measurements is the contribution of CO2 released from soils to the observed net ecosystem flux (Shaver et al. 1992; Boone ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GB-NERC-BAS-PDC-00513 2013-03-22T04:00:00Z

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 ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]geodata_0279 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,-60.5033 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z 2000-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-03-14T04:00:00Z

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) is an international agreement that sets conditions and limits on the use and exploitation of the oceans. This Convention also sets the ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]geodata_0278 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,-60.5033 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z 2000-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-03-14T04:00:00Z

The exclusive fishing zone or fishery zone refers to an area beyond the outer limit of the territorial sea (12 nautical miles from the coast) in which the coastal State has the right to fish, subject ...