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

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: 90.0

S: -90.0

E: 180.0

W: -180.0

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)/Columbia University

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

Dataset Release Date: 2007

Dataset Release Place: Palisades, NY

Dataset Publisher: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)

Version: 1.01

Data Presentation Form: tabular

Online Resource: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/cesic-complete-collection...

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1973-01-01

Stop Date: 2005-12-31

Location Keywords

CONTINENT > AFRICA > NORTHERN AFRICA > ALGERIA

CONTINENT > AFRICA > CENTRAL AFRICA > ANGOLA

Data Resolution

Temporal Resolution: Monthly

Science Keywords

ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS

CLIMATE INDICATORS > ATMOSPHERIC/OCEAN INDICATORS > TELECONNECTIONS > EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO)

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

Instrument

AWS > Automated Weather System

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

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=SOE_sout... when using these data.

Ancillary Keywords

AIR PRESSURE

EL NINO

SOI

SOUTHERN OSCILLATION INDEX

Data Set Progress

IN WORK

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

Bureau of Meteorology, Australia

Data Center URL: http://www.bom.gov.au/

Data Center Personnel
Name: CLIMATE SERVICES Phone: +61 3 6221 2043 Fax: +61 3 6221 2045 Email: climate.tas at bom.gov.au Contact Address: Climate and Consultancy Section GPO Box 727 Bureau of Meteorology Tasmania and Antarctica Regional Office City: Hobart Province or State: Tasmania Postal Code: 7001 Country: Australia

Tasmanian-Antarctica Regional Office, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia

Data Center URL: http://www.bom.gov.au/weather/tas/

Data Center Personnel
Name: CLIMATE SERVICES Phone: +61 3 6221 2043 Fax: +61 3 6221 2045 Email: climate.tas at bom.gov.au Contact Address: Climate and Consultancy Section GPO Box 727 Bureau of Meteorology Tasmania and Antarctica Regional Office City: Hobart Province or State: Tasmania Postal Code: 7001 Country: Australia

Personnel

CLIMATE SERVICES

Role: INVESTIGATOR

Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT

Role: DATA CENTER CONTACT

Phone: +61 3 6221 2043

Fax: +61 3 6221 2045

Email: climate.tas at bom.gov.au

Contact Address:

Climate and Consultancy Section

GPO Box 727

Bureau of Meteorology

Tasmania and Antarctica Regional Office

City: Hobart

Province or State: Tasmania

Postal Code: 7001

Country: Australia

REGIONAL OBSERVATIONS SECTION

Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT

Phone: +61 3 6221 2071

Fax: (via) +61 3 6221 2045