Global Change Master Directory gsfc-gcmduso@mail.nasa.gov 50 2013-05-19T02:53:24Z http://mddemo.gsfc.nasa.gov/KeywordSearch/OpenSearch.do 37 0 http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]IUCN_CARING -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z 1990-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-02-11T05:00:00Z

"Caring for the Earth" provides governments, nongovernmental organizations, businesses, and individuals with information and guidance needed to develop ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]EOSWEBSTER_US_County_Data_2-3 -124.0,26.0,-66.0,50.0 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z 1998-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-01-29T05:00:00Z

Two datasets in the EOS-WEBSTER US County Data Collection provide county-level data for crop acreage, production and yield statistics. Crop data for 22 different field crops were acquired from the ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]faostat -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2012-12-21T05:00:00Z

FAOSTAT is an on-line and CD multilingual database currently containing over one million time-series records, updated as of September 2001, covering 210 countries and territories and international ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]invasive -125.0,10.0,-67.0,90.0 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2012-12-21T05:00:00Z

Invasive.org has been under development for a number of years, and is the result of the efforts of a large number of people. In the mid-1990's we recognized a need for quality photographs ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gov.noaa.ncdc.C00517 170.0,15.0,-60.0,72.0 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 1999-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-10-17T04:00:00Z

A Climatology of Recent Extreme Weather and Climate Events is a technical report prepared by, and available from, the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). This 17-page report provides an overview, ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]USGS_NATIONALATLAS -130.0,22.0,-70.0,50.0 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2012-10-17T04:00:00Z

The National Atlas updates a large bound collection of paper maps that was published in 1970. Like its predecessor, this edition promotes greater national geographic awareness. It delivers ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]WRI_WORLD_RESOURCES -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2012-10-17T04:00:00Z

The latest World Resources reference is an authoritative assessment of the world's natural resources. The World Resources Institute (WRI), in collaboration with the United Nations Development ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]WRI_EarthTrends -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2012-10-15T04:00:00Z

EarthTrends is an online collection of information regarding the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world. Committed to the principle that accurate information drives ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NBId0017_101 -30.0,-45.0,60.0,40.0 2012-06-11T04:00:00Z

New-ID: NBI17 Irrigable soils of Africa. The African Irrigable Soils Dataset documentation Files: IRRIGUT.E00 Code: 100050-001 IRRIGUB.E00 ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NBId0211_101 -20.0,-35.0,55.0,40.0 2012-05-31T04:00:00Z

The Africa Irrigation Potential data set, which represents the best soils suitable for upland, is part of the FAO Irrigation and Water Resources Potential Database. The main input maps ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NBId0203_101 -20.0,-35.0,55.0,40.0 2012-05-31T04:00:00Z

The Africa Water Balance data set which is prepared by watershed and by country, belongs to the group of "Irrigation and Water Resources Potential" study. It covers 55 countries and 25 ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]IPGRI_Germplasm 2011-12-19T05:00:00Z

IPGRI is an international research institute with a mandate to advance the conservation and use of genetic diversity for the well-being of present and future generations. ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]SINGER 2011-12-19T05:00:00Z

The System-wide Information Network for Genetic Resources (SINGER) was established in 1994 and provides public access through the internet and on CD-ROM. SINGER ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gov.noaa.ncdc.C00394 130.0,-15.0,-60.0,72.0 1951-01-01T00:00:00Z 1980-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-07-21T04:00:00Z

Daily Normal Growing Degree Units to Selected Base Temperatures is digital data set DSI-9641I, archived at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). This data set contains daily normal growing degree ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ECPGR_ECCDB -15.0,35.0,45.0,70.0 2011-04-11T04:00:00Z

ECP/GR is a collaborative programme among most European countries aimed at ensuring the long-term conservation and facilitating the increased utilization of plant genetic resources ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]IPGRI_FRUITS -177.1,13.71,-61.48,76.63 2011-04-11T04:00:00Z

Fruits from America provides an ethnobotanical inventory of the fruits found in the Americas. More than 100 different fruits compose the offer of the traditional ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]MUSA_MGIS 0.0,-40.0,-180.0,40.0180.0,-40.0,0.0,40.0 2011-04-11T04:00:00Z

The Musa Germplasm Information System (MGIS) is a database of detailed and standardized information on Musa varieties maintained in the different collections throughout the world. MGIS facilitates ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]IPGRI_NUS 20.0,-10.0,-170.0,79.0 2011-04-11T04:00:00Z

The International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI) is supporting the conservation and use of neglected and underutilized crop species. Through participatory regional ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]USDA_AGRICOLA -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1500-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) is a bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators. Production ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]EOSWEBSTER_US_County_Data -124.0,26.0,-66.0,50.0 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z 1998-12-31T00:00:00Z 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

Annual crop data from 1972 to 1998 are now available on EOS-WEBSTER. These data are county-based acreage, production, and yield estimates published by the National Agricultural Statistics ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NRCS_NRI_SotL_CROPLAND 157.56,49.18,-117.38,67.57-127.87,22.88,-65.36,48.24-160.25,18.9,-154.76,22.22-67.96,17.67,-64.56,18.51144.54,13.23,145.9,15.29-170.84,14.16,-169.42,14.38 1997-07-01T00:00:00Z 1998-10-31T00:00:00Z 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

The maps using data from the preliminary 1997 NRI for croplands deal with a variety of areas. These areas range from specific cultivated croplands, to erosion on cropland and changes in cropland. ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NRCS_NRI_SotL_IRRIGATION -127.87,22.88,-65.36,48.24157.56,49.18,-117.38,67.57-160.25,18.9,-154.76,22.22-67.96,17.67,-64.56,18.51144.54,13.23,145.9,15.29-170.84,14.16,-169.42,14.38 1997-07-01T00:00:00Z 1998-10-31T00:00:00Z 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

The Irrigation maps are split into two section. The first set of maps are from the preliminary 1997 NRI data. The following set are from 1992 and earlier data. Both sets of maps deal ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]WCMC_149 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

This sourcebook of biodiversity data was released in part as a contribution to the First Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (Bahamas, ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]climwat -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

CLIMWAT is a climatic database to be used in combination with the computer program CROPWAT and allows the ready calculation of crop water requirements, irrigation supply and irrigation scheduling ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]FAO_GAEZ -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z 1996-12-31T00:00:00Z 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

[The summary was adapted from the GAEZ Web site] The Global Agro-ecological Zoning (GAEZ) website and CD-ROM was produced by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]iucnissg_gisp -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2000-09-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

The newly online (but still under construction) Global Invasive Species Database was developed by the Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG), using species information provided by an ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]CIMMYT_ATLAS -30.0,-45.0,60.0,40.0 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center maize research atlases are three CDs, including an Africa Maize Research Atlas, an Asia Maize Research Atlas, and a Latin America Maize ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]LSATUSERV -77.0,-38.0,-35.0,6.0 1973-05-14T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

The Brazilian receiving station for Landsat data is located in Cuiaba, state of Mato Grosso, Midwest region: 56 degrees 5 minutes 30 seconds West longitude, and 15 degrees ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]WCMC_153 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

As part of its overall species activities, WCMC maintains nomenclatural, distribution and conservation status information on 82,500 species, subspecies and varieties of vascular plants ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]TEMS_network -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

The Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring Sites (TEMS) Networks Database provides a listing of the networks found in the TEMS database. Networks can be listed alphabetically by name or by number ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]usda_aphis_ppqd_d_fnw -150.0,24.0,-50.0,90.0 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

The Federal Noxious Weeds (FNW) database contains taxonomic lists of plants listed as Federal Noxious Weeds under the Federal Noxious Weed Act of 1975. Listing is made by the U.S. Department ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]SOIL_TERRAIN_DATABASE_NE_AFRICA 15.0,0.0,52.0,33.0 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z 1998-12-31T00:00:00Z 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

The Soil and Terrain Database for Northeastern Africa contains land resource information on soils, physiography, geology and vegetation for the following ten countries: Burundi, Djibouti, ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]UNESCO_WWR -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

WWR(World Water Resources and Use)Database The International Hydrological Program (IHP) has achieved much regarding methodologies for hydrological studies and training and ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]USDA0535 -85.03,38.19,-80.31,42.2 1995-09-01T00:00:00Z 1995-09-30T00:00:00Z 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

"Use of Coupled Wetland-Agricultural Ecosystem for Water Quality Remediation" examines the water quality benefits that can be achieved in a coupled wetland-agriculture ecosystem ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]USDA0508 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

"World Food Aid Needs and Availabilities" is a full-text report that is a study of world food aid needs, defined as amount of grain needed to fill the gap between what a country can produce ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]World_Potato_Atlas -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

The World Potato Atlas was started in the 1980's by Robert E. Rhoades at the International Potato Center (CIP) and provides information on ecological and economical ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]WATER_CLIM_ATLAS -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z 1990-12-31T00:00:00Z 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

Introduction IWMI's World Water and Climate Atlas is a growing collection of data products and analytical tools focused on climate and water resources. IWMI has assembled ...