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Compendium of Environmental Sustainability Indicator Collections: Complete Collection, Version 1.1

Entry ID: CIESIN_SEDAC_CESIC_COMPLETE_V11

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Summary

Abstract: The Compendium of Environmental Sustainability Indicator Collections contains 426 indicators for 239 countries from five major environmental sustainability indicator efforts: the 2006 Environmental Performance Index (EPI), 2005 Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI), 2004 Environmental Vulnerability Index (EVI), the Rio to Johannesburg Dashboard, the Wellbeing of Nations, and 2006 National ...

Purpose: To make the acquisition, comparison and analysis of sustainability indicators easier by compiling them in a single database, incorporating multiple country codes, and condensing the indicator descriptions into short methodological summaries in an accompanying data dictionary.

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Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

	N: -66.76	S: -66.77	E: 112.81	W: 112.8
Min Altitude: 1300M Max Altitude: 1300M
Min Depth: 0M Max Depth: 120M

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1999-09-30

Stop Date: 2005-03-31

Location Keywords

CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > Law Dome

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Science Keywords

ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES

ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION RATE

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION

INLAND WATERS

Platform

FIELD SURVEYS

Quality Trace ion data were quality checked.

Values provided in temporal coverage are approximate only.

Access Constraints These data are publicly available for download from the provided URL.

Except for the 2004-2005 data which is not yet publicly available.

Use Constraints This data set conforms to the PICCCBY Attribution License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=ASAC_1172 when using these data.

Ancillary Keywords

AUTOMATIC WEATHER STATION

CALCIUM

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Data Center

Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia

Data Center URL: http://data.aad.gov.au

Data Center Personnel
Name: DATA OFFICER AADC Phone: +61 3 6232 3244 Fax: +61 3 6232 3351 Email: metadata at aad.gov.au Contact Address: Australian Antarctic Division 203 Channel Highway City: Kingston Province or State: Tasmania Postal Code: 7050 Country: Australia

Distribution

Distribution Size: 504 KB

Distribution Format: .xls

Personnel

MARK CURRAN

Role: INVESTIGATOR

Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT

Role: DIF AUTHOR

Phone: +61 3 6226 1876

Fax: +61 3 6226 2902

Email: mark.curran at aad.gov.au

Contact Address:

203 Channel Highway

Australian Antarctic Division

City: Kingston

Province or State: Tasmania

Postal Code: 7050

Country: Australia

Publications/References

McMorrow A.J., Curran M.A.J., van Ommen T.D., Morgan V., Pook M.J., Allison I. (2001), Intercomparison of firn core and meteorological data., Antarctic Science, 13, 3, 329-337

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2000-08-09

Last DIF Revision Date: 2011-02-14

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