Global Change Master Directory gsfc-gcmduso@mail.nasa.gov 50 2013-05-22T07:34:57Z http://mddemo.gsfc.nasa.gov/KeywordSearch/OpenSearch.do 558 0 http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]CDA_AR_GEO_JASON_JURASSIC_TREES -61.53,-66.23,-61.42,-66.07 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-04-22T04:00:00Z

A new discovery of Jurassic flora (tree trunks and stemps), located in Ramirez nunatak, Jason Peninsula, on the East side of Antarctic Peninsula is described. Together with another fossil flora locality ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GB-NERC-BAS-PDC-00518 2013-03-29T04:00:00Z

GEACEP will investigate the relationship between the evolution of Antarctic ice and the changing global environment over the last ~30 million years (My). We will do so through collecting and combining ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSF-ANT10-39365 2009-08-28T00:00:00Z 2012-02-29T00:00:00Z 2013-02-01T05:00:00Z

This project studies the Permian-Triassic extinction event as recorded in sedimentary rocks from the Transantarctic Mountains of Antarctica. Two hundred and fifty million years ago most life on Earth ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]UTC_caves -85.87167,34.88217,-85.0175,35.52333 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z 2012-12-12T05:00:00Z

This shapefile was created using Bulletin 64 (Caves of Tennessee) produced by the Tennessee Dept. of Conservation and Commerce Division of Geology. The Bulletin ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NRMSC_sulfurnitrogenstableisotopes -118.0,42.0,-105.0,49.0 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 2001-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-12-12T05:00:00Z

Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) is a masting species that produces relatively large, fat- and protein-rich nuts that are consumed by grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis). Trees produce abundant ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]AIS_1968_borehole 65.0,-74.0,74.0,-68.0 1968-08-30T00:00:00Z 1969-01-31T00:00:00Z 2012-12-10T05:00:00Z

In 1968 the Australian Antarctic Division had a group of four men spend over a year on the Amery Ice Shelf. As part of their program of work, they drilled a number of boreholes on the shelf and took ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]KPDC_NVLR_2011_JW_01 158.1,-75.833,159.3,-75.733 2012-01-03T00:00:00Z 2012-01-13T00:00:00Z 2012-11-06T05:00:00Z

This entry is for the rock samples of Prince Albert Mountains, Antarctica collected in 2011-12 austral summer season. The collection includes volcanic rocks (basalt, dolerite, hyaloclasite, and tuff) ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]IPCC -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 0001-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2012-11-02T04:00:00Z

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was organized in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). Four series of reports ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]AAS_3203 158.8,-54.68,158.9,-54.56 2009-09-30T00:00:00Z 2012-03-31T00:00:00Z 2012-10-22T04:00:00Z

Metadata record for data from AAS (ASAC) Project 3203 See the link below for public details on this project. Public Summary High-order predators rely on the productivity of the Southern Ocean marine ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]Inforain_USGS_GBE -170.0,52.0,-140.0,71.0 2012-10-15T04:00:00Z

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) and Interrain Pacific are please to help make available to the public this integrated Geographic Information System for the Glacier Bay / northern Southeast ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_ARCTIC -180.0,50.0,180.0,90.0 1600-01-01T00:00:00Z 2000-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-08-31T04:00:00Z

Abstract (from the online documentation): A compilation of paleoclimate records from lake sediments, trees, glaciers, and marine sediments provides a view of circum-Arctic environmental variability ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_96-029 -119.8,43.66,-119.8,43.66-118.0,45.0,-118.0,45.0 1705-01-01T00:00:00Z 1979-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-08-31T04:00:00Z

These data are reconstructed drought index and precipitation for NOAA Oregon climate divisions 7 and 8, derived from tree-ring data by Gregg M. Garfin and Dr. Malcolm K. Hughes of the Laboratory of ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_96-002 -109.35,31.04,-102.7,37.3 2012-08-31T04:00:00Z

Water Year Annual Precipitation Reconstruction at El Malpais National Monument near Grants, New Mexico. The tree-ring chronology associated with this reconstruction can be found in the holdings ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NOAA_NGDC_PALEO_6CENTURY -180.0,-88.0,180.0,88.0 1400-01-01T00:00:00Z 1995-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-08-31T04:00:00Z

This data set consists of reconstructed global annual surface temperatures for each year from 1400 to 1995, including statistical uncertainties and reconstructed principal component analyses. This ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_2000-075 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1650-01-01T00:00:00Z 1980-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-08-31T04:00:00Z

Data consists of cold-season Nino 3 region (an estimate of El Nino-related temperature variability) reconstructed data. See: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/ei/ei_reconsb.html

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]IAIDIS848 130.0,20.0,-90.0,62.0 1781-01-01T00:00:00Z 1993-12-31T00:00:00Z 1600-01-01T00:00:00Z 1983-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-08-31T04:00:00Z

This metadata references the scientific article: "Tropical-North Pacific Climate Linkages Over the Past Four Centuries", which can be download from here. Authors: Rosanne DArrigo(1), Rob Wilson(2), ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_94-007 -90.0,20.0,-50.0,65.0 2012-08-31T04:00:00Z

These maps are based on 11,700 fossil pollen samples and 1744 modern pollen samples. Twenty-one pollen taxa were included in analyses: Alnus, Fraxinum, Populus, Tilia, Fagus, Betula, Ulmus, Abies, ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_2000-049 -120.0,37.0,-114.0,41.0 2012-08-31T04:00:00Z

This data set consists of reconstructed precipitation for Nevada Climate Division 3, annual July through June. Trees used for the reconstruction are bristlecone pine from Methuselah Walk, White ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_2005-057 -180.0,0.0,180.0,90.0 1400-01-01T00:00:00Z 1971-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-08-31T04:00:00Z

Results are presented from a set of experiments designed to investigate factors that may influence proxy-based reconstructions of large-scale temperature patterns in past centuries. The factors ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_1999-014 -180.0,0.0,180.0,90.0 1000-01-01T00:00:00Z 1998-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-08-31T04:00:00Z

Abstract (from the online documentation): Building on recent studies, we attempt hemispheric temperature reconstructions with proxy data networks for the past millennium. We focus not just on the ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NOAA_NGDC_PALEO_MANN2003 -180.0,0.0,180.0,90.0 1000-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2012-08-31T04:00:00Z

This data is an optimal Northern Hemisphere mean surface temperature reconstruction from terrestrial borehole temperature profiles spanning the past five centuries. The pattern of borehole ground ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_96-020 75.0,30.0,125.0,45.0 1600-01-01T00:00:00Z 1988-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-08-31T04:00:00Z

This data set consists of precipitation reconstructions for Huashan, Shaanxi Province, in the central People's Republic Of China, based on tree-ring data.

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_2001-081 -123.0,36.0,-120.0,40.0 0869-01-01T00:00:00Z 1977-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-08-31T04:00:00Z

This data set consists of reconstruction of total annual flow, in millions of acre/feet, of the Sacramento River, based on tree ring chronologies from 869-1977 AD.

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_1998-038 135.0,-60.0,-75.0,15.0 1706-01-01T00:00:00Z 1997-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-08-31T04:00:00Z

EXPERIMENTAL DENDROCLIMATIC RECONSTRUCTION OF THE SOUTHERN OSCILLATION This file documents reconstruction of the winter (DJF) season of Allan's version of the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI). It ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_2002-080 -115.11,31.04,-102.7,37.3 1000-01-01T00:00:00Z 1988-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-08-31T04:00:00Z

This data set consists of a comparison of the linear regression and neural network models for precipitation reconstruction from a network of tree ring chronologies. Data include the reconstructed ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_2007-052 -114.0,35.0,-105.0,44.0 0765-01-01T00:00:00Z 2000-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-08-31T04:00:00Z

New tree-ring records of ring-width from remnant preserved wood are analyzed to extend the record of reconstructed annual flows of the Colorado River at Lee Ferry into the Medieval Climate ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]EARTH_LAND_USGS_ALASKA_FOSSILS1 -180.0,53.0,-130.0,74.0 1898-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2012-08-29T04:00:00Z

The data base consists of a compilation of reports made by the U.S. Geological Survey Branch of Paleontology and Stratigraphy concerning the identification of fossils collected in Alaska. Data includes ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]AAD_Publications -180.0,-90.0,180.0,-30.0 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2012-06-19T04:00:00Z

This database is a catalogue for the list of publications held by the Australian Antarctic Division. The database is available online at the URL given below. In some cases, pdf downloads are available, ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]K016_2011_2012_NZ_1 166.15,-77.53,166.41,-77.53 2011-12-12T00:00:00Z 2012-01-07T00:00:00Z 2012-06-08T04:00:00Z

Our objectives are to identify the molecular basis by which Ad?lie penguins have responded to a -10?C increase in temperature since the last glacial maximum. We will sequence the genomes of a number ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]2011_SCOTT_GLACIER_UW_COSMOGENIC_NUCLIDE_DATA -157.0,-88.0,-147.0,-85.0 2012-06-04T04:00:00Z

This data set consists of exposure ages for glacial deposits on nunataks and ice-free areas adjacent to Scott Glacier, Transantarctic Mountains. Most samples are glacially transported clasts deposited ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ARCSS176 -157.1417,70.9055,-155.5473,72.2153 2002-04-01T00:00:00Z 2005-04-30T00:00:00Z 2012-05-15T04:00:00Z

These data are from a study of the origin and associated geomorphological, ecological, and pedological processes of thaw-lake basins of the Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska. The research utilized high-resolution ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]G02201 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1882-01-01T00:00:00Z 2007-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-05-13T04:00:00Z

The International Polar Year Historical Data and Literature collection (formerly known as the Discovery and Access of Historic Literature from the IPYs (DAHLI) project) is an online data collection ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ARCSS117 -149.67,68.48,-149.02,68.74 1976-06-01T00:00:00Z 2001-08-31T00:00:00Z 2012-05-11T04:00:00Z

This data set consists of a digital glacial geology map of the Toolik and upper Kuparuk River region, Alaska, USA. The map covers a 740 km² area on Alaska's North Slope, in the northern foothills ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ARCSS008 -38.0,72.0,-37.0,72.0 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z 1994-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-05-11T04:00:00Z

From 1989 to 1994, the U.S. and European scientific communities supported a bold undertaking to acquire an extensive paleoclimate record for the Northern Hemisphere. These efforts, termed the Greenland ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ARCSS089 -157.1418,70.9055,-155.5474,71.3136 2000-08-01T00:00:00Z 2001-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-05-11T04:00:00Z

This data set contains measurements taken from 78 drained thaw-lake basins on the Arctic Coastal Plain between Barrow and Atqasuk, Alaska. Investigators collected and analyzed sediment cores to determine ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ARCSS136 -156.4,71.066666,-156.4,71.066666 2002-04-15T00:00:00Z 2003-08-15T00:00:00Z 2012-05-11T04:00:00Z

This data set consists of pollen data and radiocarbon (¹⁴C) dates resulting from microscopic analysis and mass spectrometry of soil cores taken from the Peterson Erosional Remnant, located ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NIPR_GEO_RADIOCARBON 39.0,-69.9,41.43,-68.45 1961-01-25T00:00:00Z 1996-02-06T00:00:00Z 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z 2009-03-26T00:00:00Z 2012-04-04T04:00:00Z

A map and booklet are available (special map series of National Institute of Polar Research, No. 6).

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]ASAC_884 72.0,-68.1,72.1,-68.0 1995-09-30T00:00:00Z 1998-03-31T00:00:00Z 2012-02-28T05:00:00Z

This project is very closely related to ASAC project 666 (ASAC_666). See that project for more details. A copy of the masters thesis arising from the project is attached to the record. Physical ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]2005_FORD_RANGES_BEDROCK_UW_COSMOGENIC_NUCLIDE_DATA -147.0,-78.0,-141.0,-76.0 2012-01-31T05:00:00Z

This data set consists of cosmogenic nuclide concentrations in samples from bedrock surfaces in the Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica. These surfaces have been exposed by ice ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[IPEV]1004_0_IPEV_FR 2012-01-27T05:00:00Z

Radiocarbon dating, pollen and non pollen palynomorphs analyses from a lacustrine record are used to establish the timing and effects of farming activities on Norse settlements in Greenland. The absence ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]K001BR_2011_2012_NZ_1 159.4755,-78.6412,161.5931,-78.30508 2011-11-07T00:00:00Z 2011-11-18T00:00:00Z 2012-01-23T05:00:00Z

36 Outcrop and Glacial erratic samples of Beacon Sandstone were collected from Escalade Peak, Tate Peak, Halfway Nunatak, Neve Nunatak and Clinker Bluff. These samples are accompanied by the geomorphic, ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]K001BR_2010_2011_NZ_1 166.61888,-85.1193,169.33156,-84.37098 2010-12-23T00:00:00Z 2010-12-28T00:00:00Z 2012-01-23T05:00:00Z

Samples were collected from the Cloudmaker and Oliver Bluffs and are accompanied by the geomorphic, petrographic, and structural information, and GPS position and elevation data.

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]Cassiope_Arctic_Climate_Proxy_Weijers_IPY59_NL 11.9,68.4,18.8,78.9 2008-01-15T00:00:00Z 2012-01-14T00:00:00Z 2012-01-03T05:00:00Z

Annual stem length, annual number of leaves, annual average leaf length, annual total leaf length and leaf lifespan. All of Cassiope tetragona. These parameters were measured at three sites: Ny-?lesund ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]ASAC_904 158.0,-55.0,159.0,-54.0 1995-09-30T00:00:00Z 1996-03-31T00:00:00Z 2011-11-29T05:00:00Z

Macquarie Island is an emergent part of the Macquarie Ridge Complex composed of ocean-floor rocks of Miocene age now 4000 m above the ocean floor. Anumber of landforms, including palaeobeaches now ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]ASAC_143 162.0,-73.0,166.0,-71.0 1974-09-01T00:00:00Z 1975-03-31T00:00:00Z 1981-09-01T00:00:00Z 1982-03-31T00:00:00Z 2011-11-29T05:00:00Z

Most of the material refers to northern Victoria Land and was collected over two summer seasons (1974-75 with NZARP and in 1981-82 as part of the International North Victoria Land Expedition which ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]ASAC_53 67.5,-71.5,68.0,-70.0 1987-09-30T00:00:00Z 1990-03-31T00:00:00Z 2011-11-29T05:00:00Z

From the abstract of the referenced papers: The northern Prince Charles Mountains overlook the western side of the 700km long Lambert Glacier-Amery Ice Shelf drainage system. Within these mountains, ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]ASAC_258 70.0,-69.0,88.0,-48.0 1987-12-14T00:00:00Z 1988-02-21T00:00:00Z 2011-11-21T05:00:00Z

This data were collected as part of the Ocean Drilling Program. All data were collected on Leg 119. The cruise for Leg 119 began at Port Louis Harbor, Mauritius, and finished at the Port of Fremantle, ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]ASAC_1 65.0,-73.0,69.0,-69.0 1989-09-30T00:00:00Z 1993-03-31T00:00:00Z 2011-11-17T05:00:00Z

From the abstracts of some of the referenced papers: Megafloral remains recovered from the Jetty Member and the upper part of the Flagstone Bench Formation, Amery Group include Dicroidium and Pagiophyllum. ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]ASAC_706 77.96739,-68.576614,77.96739,-68.576614 1994-11-01T00:00:00Z 1995-02-28T00:00:00Z 2011-11-15T05:00:00Z

Data set contains sediment cores from three saline lakes in the Vestfold Hills. The three lakes are Ace Lake, Lake Pendant and Lake Abraxas. Short cores from each lake are sectioned into 1 cm intervals. ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSF-ANT08-40979 165.35155,-85.49725,173.26738,-83.71592 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z 2011-06-30T00:00:00Z 2011-11-02T04:00:00Z

Ice sheet models of the Last Glacial Maximum, and previous glaciation events in the Miocene, suggest that current low altitude, ice-free surfaces in Antarctica were completely covered with ice. If ...