Global Change Master Directory gsfc-gcmduso@mail.nasa.gov 50 2013-05-19T02:08:08Z http://mddemo.gsfc.nasa.gov/KeywordSearch/OpenSearch.do 29 0 http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gov.noaa.ncdc.C00354 170.0,15.0,-66.0,72.0 1940-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-01-24T05:00:00Z

The Development of a U.S. Climatology of Extreme Ice Loads is a technical report available from the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). Ice thickness (and therefore weight) is a key engineering ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NASA_LIS_DATA -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2012-09-04T04:00:00Z

The Land Information System (LIS) provides collection of sample data for demonstration of LIS code. The original source of each data set is given whenever possible. LIS does not endorse the validity, ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]CDA_AR-ANTARCTICPERMAFROSTANDCLIMATECHANGUE-PICTO36155-2005 2012-07-10T04:00:00Z

ENGLISH The project is aimed at enhanced knowledge of the present morphology and structure of Antarctic permafrost and the interpretation of the permafrost evolution and the cryogenic processes and ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ARCSS143 -156.9804,70.4325,-153.8315,76.4379 2001-04-01T00:00:00Z 2003-08-31T00:00:00Z 2012-05-11T04:00:00Z

This data set includes measurements and observations taken from drained thaw-lake basin (DTLB) cores retrieved from Barrow and Atqasuk, Alaska in April and August of 2001 through 2003. Investigators ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gov.noaa.ncdc.C00490 -93.0,24.0,-75.0,40.0 1994-02-01T00:00:00Z 1994-07-31T00:00:00Z 2011-07-21T04:00:00Z

1994 Weather in the Southeast: The February Ice Storm and July Flooding is a technical report available from the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). During the first seven months of 1994, the Southeastern ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ggd629 2011-01-24T05:00:00Z

The Arctic Coastal Dynamics (ACD) program is a multidisciplinary, multinational program with the goal of understanding circum-Arctic coastal dynamics as a function of environmental forcing, coastal ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ggd648 87.00179,40.607674,121.35476,52.229263 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z 1990-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-01-24T05:00:00Z

The map of Geocryology and Geocryological Zonation of Mongolia was derived from the National Atlas of Mongolia (Sodnom and Yanshin, 1990). The data set depicts the distribution and general properties ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ggd600 27.3,41.2,-169.5,77.7 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z 1996-01-31T00:00:00Z 2011-01-24T05:00:00Z

This data set includes maps of permafrost extent, permafrost temperature, the permafrost boundary, and ground ice thickness for all of Russia. The maps are ESRI Shapefiles, which were digitized from ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ggd604 -142.0,50.0,-65.0,85.0 2011-01-24T05:00:00Z

This map depicts the distribution, characteristics, and boundaries of permafrost and ground ice in Canada. Permafrost classification is based on the proportion of land that is underlain by permafrost ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ggd614 56.0,65.0,65.0,68.0 2011-01-24T05:00:00Z

The map consists of ESRI Shapefiles of the Usa River basin, Russia, including Lek-Vorkuta and Bolshaya Rogovaya. There are four data layers in the data set: a base map layer, a permafrost layer, and ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ggd193 66.5,66.5,73.5,73.5 1983-01-01T00:00:00Z 1989-12-31T00:00:00Z 2010-12-30T05:00:00Z

This data set consists of a classification of the geological environment of Yamal, based on a map of natural complexes of North West Siberia. 52 separate regions were identified, distinguished by ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ggd307 156.0,59.85,162.0,63.2 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z 1984-12-31T00:00:00Z 2010-12-29T05:00:00Z

This data set includes measurements of ground temperature, active-layer and permafrost thickness, and soil properties in the Gijiga Lowland, Russia. Massive ground ice and periglacial processes are ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ggd318 -180.0,28.0,180.0,90.0 2010-12-29T05:00:00Z

The Circum-Arctic permafrost and ground ice map is available via ftp in ESRI Shapefile format and Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grid (EASE-Grid) format. See the Format section for an explanation of the ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ggd303 65.833,65.0,75.0,67.0 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z 2002-12-31T00:00:00Z 2010-12-29T05:00:00Z

This project collected information on snow cover, geocryology, soil properties, and ground temperature, in western Siberia, Russia. Ground temperature was measured every 0.5 m to a depth of 3 m; every ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ggd305 81.0,69.0,88.833,69.833 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z 1988-12-31T00:00:00Z 2010-12-29T05:00:00Z

This data set includes geocryological data from boreholes in the Messoyakha-Norilsk Pipeline Area, Russia. Parameters include ground temperature and soil properties. Ground temperature was measured ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ggd304 55.0,64.0,67.5,68.0 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z 1988-12-31T00:00:00Z 2010-12-29T05:00:00Z

This data set includes geocryological data from northwest Russia. Parameters include soil properties, ground temperature, ground water properties, and geophysical properties. Data were collected during ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ggd306 73.0,67.0,76.0,68.0 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z 2000-12-31T00:00:00Z 2010-12-29T05:00:00Z

This data set includes geocryological data from boreholes in the in the Yamburg and Medvezhje gas fields of western Siberia, Russia. Parameters include ground temperature, active layer depth, ground ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ggd300 148.367,59.35,150.0,60.0 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z 1989-12-31T00:00:00Z 2010-12-28T05:00:00Z

This data set includes active layer depth and groundwater data from boreholes in the Yana River Area, Russia. Boreholes ranged in depth from 5 to 200 m. The project also measured permafrost extent ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ggd189 15.5,64.567,177.2,78.217 1988-07-01T00:00:00Z 1988-09-30T00:00:00Z 2010-12-28T05:00:00Z

This data set is comprised of water and ice chemistry parameters from areas of massive ground ice in Kolguev Island and Svalbard in the west to Chukotka Peninsula in the east. Water, snow, and ice ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ggd282 -72.0,-29.0,-67.0,-18.0 2010-12-28T05:00:00Z

The research area is located along a transect from 18 deg S to 29 deg S in the Chilean Altiplano, the western part of the high intramontane plateau in the Central Andes. This region is located in ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]G01175 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2010-12-23T05:00:00Z

The Circumpolar Active-Layer Permafrost System (CAPS) CD-ROM contains data sets and information products pertaining to permafrost and frozen ground topics. CAPS was originally compiled by the International ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]UW_Dry_Valley_Datalogging 2010-07-09T04:00:00Z

The data set contains microclimate and soil temperature data at 5 sites in the MCM Dry Valleys.

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]CNDP-ESP_GEOANT-UAM -83.3,-68.7,-44.3,-60.5 1991-12-30T00:00:00Z 2008-02-20T00:00:00Z 2009-09-23T04:00:00Z

In English: This dataset contains registered data on studies carried out by the research group on Geology from the University Autonoma of Madrid (GEOANT). Data about geomorphology, neotectonics, ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]CNDP-ESP_GEOANT-UAM_Geomorphology-Soils-Permafrost -68.1,-67.6,-44.3,-60.5 1991-12-30T00:00:00Z 2008-02-20T00:00:00Z 2009-09-23T04:00:00Z

In English: Data on geomorphology, soils and permafrost in the Antarctic Peninsula region from projects of the research group on geology of the University Autonoma of Madrid (GEOANT). General geomorphology, ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]K047_2004_2006_NZ_1 160.55,-77.88,162.35,-77.36160.43,-77.9,162.38,-77.38 2004-11-13T00:00:00Z 2004-12-10T00:00:00Z 2005-11-14T00:00:00Z 2005-12-08T00:00:00Z 2009-04-23T04:00:00Z

Ancient glacial ice that has stagnated and lies buried underneath rock debris has been found in the Beacon Valley and more recently in several other valleys. This ice poses the possibility of obtaining ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]K054_2006_2007_NZ_1 161.6203,-77.3365,161.6203,-77.3365160.5956,-77.8475,160.5956,-77.8475 2006-11-27T00:00:00Z 2007-01-22T00:00:00Z 2009-03-16T04:00:00Z

To understand the subsurface properties of polygonal patterned ground (PPG) and to attempt to resolve competing theories of PPG activity, non-invasive, non-destructive geophysical methods were used ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]K047_2002_2003_NZ_1 161.95,-77.9667,161.95,-77.9667161.5333,-77.7167,161.5333,-77.7167 2002-11-16T00:00:00Z 2002-12-09T00:00:00Z 2009-03-03T05:00:00Z

To investigate the nature and origin of massive ground ice and to establish whether it has the potential to yield palaeoclimatic data, a set of shallow ice cores and samples were collected from Columnar ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]K047_2001_2002_NZ_1 160.65,-77.8167,160.65,-77.8167160.9833,-77.8333,160.9833,-77.8333161.5333,-77.7167,161.5333,-77.7167 2001-11-15T00:00:00Z 2001-12-05T00:00:00Z 2009-03-03T05:00:00Z

The origin of ground ice at high elevations (>1000m) throughout the Dry Valleys of Antarctica was investigated as the origin is unclear because there is no obvious comtemporary source of water. A ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]CDA_AR_FROZEN_GROUND_MARAMBIO_I -56.91,-64.33,-56.53,-64.1 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z 2004-12-31T00:00:00Z 2006-06-05T04:00:00Z

English: Project No 17 2002-2004 The Marambio Island (Seymour) is situated in the continuous permafrost zone of the Antarctic Peninsula. The ground conditions at this island determinate the existence ...