Global Change Master Directory gsfc-gcmduso@mail.nasa.gov 50 2012-05-16T08:04:48Z http://mddemo.gsfc.nasa.gov/KeywordSearch/OpenSearch.do 23307 0 http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0026 -180.0,60.0,180.0,90.0 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z 1989-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-05-15T04:00:00Z

This data set consists of AVHRR imagery selected from hard copy 'quick look' images to provide the best coverage possible over the Arctic approximately every three days for a three-year period. Level-1B ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0283 124.4345,-80.79008,124.52668,-80.77546 2004-01-16T00:00:00Z 2004-11-17T00:00:00Z 2012-05-15T04:00:00Z

The Antarctic megadune research was conducted during two field seasons, one in November 2002 and the other during the period of December 2003 through January 2004. The megadune field site is located ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0209 18.39,57.24,18.39,57.24 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z 2003-05-31T00:00:00Z 2012-05-15T04:00:00Z

This data set includes non-Doppler polar volume reflectivity data from the Baltic Sea Experiment (BALTEX). Data were collected on Sweden's Gotland Island, using an Ericsson radar mounted at 56 m above ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0181 -108.5,38.5,-104.0,42.0 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z 2003-08-01T00:00:00Z 2012-05-15T04:00:00Z

The LDAS data set contains 43 model and observation-based fields produced by the LDAS uncoupled modeling system at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center using the Mosaic Land Surface Model (LSM). ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0032 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1987-07-09T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2012-05-15T04:00:00Z

This Level-3 Equal-Area Scalable Earth-Grid (EASE-Grid) Brightness Temperature data set, collected since 09 July 1987, is a part of the NOAA/NASA Pathfinder Program. The data set consists of gridded ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]G01961 -180.0,60.0,180.0,90.0 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z 1993-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-05-15T04:00:00Z

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) was established in June 1995 under the framework of the U.S.-Russian Joint Commission on Economic and Technological Cooperation. In January 1996, the EWG Arctic ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0507 158.25,-76.833336,159.0,-76.666664 1997-12-04T00:00:00Z 2010-12-19T00:00:00Z 2012-05-15T04:00:00Z

This data set includes includes high-precision GPS measurements of steel poles within the Allan Hills Main Ice Field, Near Western Ice Field, and extending to the eastern edge of the Middle Western ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]gripflt -100.0,0.0,0.0,45.0 2010-08-13T00:00:00Z 2010-09-25T00:00:00Z 2012-05-15T04:00:00Z

The GRIP Flight Tracks and Animations dataset includes both KML files and animation files. The KML files use Google Earth to show the flight tracks on a map. The animations vary by type. Created ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0271 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1978-01-01T00:00:00Z 2007-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-05-15T04:00:00Z

This data set comprises global, monthly satellite-derived Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) climatologies from November 1978 through May 2007, with periodic updates released as resources permit. Global ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0397 2012-05-15T04:00:00Z

Notice to Data Users: The documentation for this data set was provided solely by the Principal Investigator(s) and was not further developed, thoroughly reviewed, or edited by NSIDC. Thus, support ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]LEDAPS_PREPROCESSING_TOOL -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2011-11-21T00:00:00Z 2011-11-21T00:00:00Z 2012-05-15T04:00:00Z

The Landsat Ecosystem Disturbance Adaptive Processing System (LEDAPS) is a NASA project to map disturbance, regrowth, and permanent forest conversion across the continent (Masek et al., 2006). The ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0502 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,-90.0 2008-12-01T00:00:00Z 2009-01-31T00:00:00Z 2012-05-15T04:00:00Z

This data set contains depth profiles for delta carbon-13 (δ13C) and delta deuterium (δD) of methane (CH/4) in South Pole firn air. The investigators obtained air samples from two boreholes ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0436 -119.51667,-80.01667,-119.51667,-80.01667106.8,-72.46667,106.8,-72.46667-38.466667,72.583336,-38.466667,72.583336 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z 2005-12-30T00:00:00Z 2012-05-15T04:00:00Z

This data set contains measurements of impurities and ions in three polar ice cores: the Vostok 5G ice core and the Byrd ice core from Antarctica, and the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 (GISP2) D core. ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0193 130.0,30.0,150.0,40.0 2003-01-14T00:00:00Z 2003-02-03T00:00:00Z 2012-05-15T04:00:00Z

This data set includes calibrated brightness temperatures measured over Wakasa Bay in the Sea of Japan in January and February 2003. The MIR was carried on a military-type P-3 aircraft. Brightness ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0300 -124.292,40.498,-124.292,40.498 1995-12-07T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2012-05-15T04:00:00Z

Next-Generation Radar (NEXRAD) Weather Surveillance Radar 1988 (WSR-88D) measurements were used to support AMSR-E rainfall validation efforts in Eureka, California, USA. WSR-88D radar has a measurement ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ARCSS157 158.45,67.3,161.92,69.43 2002-06-30T00:00:00Z 2004-04-27T00:00:00Z 2012-05-15T04:00:00Z

Investigators performed a stable isotope analysis of rain, snow, the Kolyma River, and a local stream near Cherskii, Siberia from 30 June 2002 through 27 April 2004. As part of the Russian-American ...

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]ARCSS142 -170.0,74.0,-140.0,81.0 1997-10-09T00:00:00Z 1998-09-27T00:00:00Z 2012-05-15T04:00:00Z

This data set includes a time series of temperature, conductivity, salinity, three-dimensional velocity, pressure, and magnetic heading at multiple levels in the boundary layer under the drifting ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0185 -93.664,41.934,-93.529,41.992 2002-06-23T00:00:00Z 2002-07-23T00:00:00Z 2012-05-15T04:00:00Z

This data set contains rainfall, soil moisture, and soil temperature data collected for the Soil Moisture Experiment 2002 (SMEX02). The parameters measured are soil moisture, soil temperature, and ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ARCSS095 -179.836,84.923,179.808,89.952 2000-04-21T00:00:00Z 2000-04-28T00:00:00Z 2001-04-09T00:00:00Z 2001-04-14T00:00:00Z 2002-04-23T00:00:00Z 2002-04-28T00:00:00Z 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z 2003-05-09T00:00:00Z 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z 2004-04-29T00:00:00Z 2005-04-25T00:00:00Z 2005-04-28T00:00:00Z 2012-05-15T04:00:00Z

This data set includes diverse measurements of seawater chemistry along with supplementary conductivity, temperature, depth (CTD); pressure; salinity; potential temperature; and density data from ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0215 0.0,-90.0,0.0,-90.0 2012-05-15T04:00:00Z

This data set contains concentrations of soluble chemical species (ions) within a 120 m ice core retrieved at the South Pole station in 2001. The ice core was dated with annual resolution using annual ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0194 134.0313,30.6763,150.3528,41.476 2003-01-14T00:00:00Z 2003-02-03T00:00:00Z 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z

The Wakasa Bay Field Campaign was conducted in January and February 2003 to validate rainfall algorithms developed for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E). ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0301 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2002-06-19T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z

This document pertains to two data sets: AMSR-E/Aqua Daily EASE-Grid Brightness Temperatures (NSIDC-0301) and AMSR-E/Aqua Daily Global Quarter-Degree Gridded Brightness Temperatures (NISDC-0302). ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0302 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 2002-06-19T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z

The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) instrument on the NASA EOS Aqua satellite provides global passive microwave measurements of the Earth. NSIDC produces AMSR-E ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0461 -166.1468,64.8929,-148.2055,71.9577 2006-03-21T00:00:00Z 2006-03-21T00:00:00Z 2006-03-22T00:00:00Z 2006-03-22T00:00:00Z 2006-03-25T00:00:00Z 2006-03-25T00:00:00Z 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z

Notice to Data Users: The documentation for this data set was provided solely by the Principal Investigator(s) and was not further developed, thoroughly reviewed, or edited by NSIDC. Thus, support ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0195 130.0,30.0,150.0,45.0 2003-01-14T00:00:00Z 2003-02-03T00:00:00Z 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z

In January and February 2003, the Airborne Second Generation Precipitation Radar (APR-2) collected data in the Wakasa Bay AMSR-E validation campaign over the sea of Japan on board a NASA P-3 aircraft. ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0094 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,-54.0-180.0,48.0,180.0,90.0 1981-07-24T00:00:00Z 2000-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z

The AVHRR Polar Pathfinder Twice-Daily 25 km EASE-Grid Composites are a collection of products for both poles, consisting of twice-daily gridded and calibrated satellite channel data and derived parameters. ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0066 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,-54.0-180.0,48.0,180.0,90.0 1981-07-24T00:00:00Z 2005-06-30T00:00:00Z 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z

The Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Polar Pathfinder Twice-Daily 5 km EASE-Grid Composites are a collection of products for both poles, consisting of twice-daily calibrated and gridded ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0326 160.0,-78.0,163.0,-77.833336 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z

This data set provides glacier surface ablation rates for a network of approximately 250 sites on Taylor Glacier, for year 2003. Here sublimation is the dominant ablation mechanism, though a few sites ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0072 -141.0,41.0,-52.0,84.0 1874-01-01T00:00:00Z 1990-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z

This data set was distributed by NSIDC until October, 2003, when it was withdrawn from distribution because it duplicates the NOAA National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) data set TD-9816 'Canadian Monthly ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0504 0.0,-90.0,0.0,-90.0112.09,-79.47,112.09,-79.47-38.3833,72.5833,-38.3833,72.5833 2005-12-01T00:00:00Z 2006-01-31T00:00:00Z 2006-06-01T00:00:00Z 2006-09-01T00:00:00Z 2008-12-01T00:00:00Z 2009-01-31T00:00:00Z 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z

This data set contains ethane, propane, and n-butane measurements in firn air from the South Pole and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide in Antarctica, and from Summit, Greenland. The WAIS ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0318 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,-65.0 1957-01-01T00:00:00Z 2003-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z

The Mean Annual Temperature map was calculated by creating a contour map using compiled 10 meter firn temperature data from NSIDC and other mean annual temperature data from both cores and stations. ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0393 -180.0,65.0,180.0,86.0 2005-10-21T00:00:00Z 2005-11-24T00:00:00Z 2006-02-22T00:00:00Z 2006-03-27T00:00:00Z 2006-05-24T00:00:00Z 2006-06-26T00:00:00Z 2006-10-25T00:00:00Z 2006-11-27T00:00:00Z 2007-03-12T00:00:00Z 2007-04-14T00:00:00Z 2007-10-02T00:00:00Z 2007-11-05T00:00:00Z 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z

This data set provides measurements of sea ice freeboard and sea ice thickness for the Arctic region. The data were acquired from the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) Geoscience Laser ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0033 -180.0,65.0,180.0,90.0 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z

A gridded climatological monthly-mean data base of Arctic water vapor characteristics has been assembled by combining fixed station data with data from soundings taken over the Arctic Ocean from ships ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0260 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z 2001-01-20T00:00:00Z 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z

The C-band scatterometers on ERS-1 and ERS-2 provided normalized radar cross section (sigma0) measurements of the Earth's surface. While originally designed for wind observation, scatterometer sigma0 ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0201 -148.8,-81.7,-148.8,-81.7 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z 2003-11-30T00:00:00Z 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z

This data set is a continuous, high-resolution record of biogenic sulfur (methanesulfonate, known as MSA and CH3SO3-) in the 1000 m deep Siple Dome A (SDMA) core, covering 100,000 to 20 years BP. ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0079 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,-39.0-180.0,30.0,180.0,90.0 1978-10-26T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z

This sea ice concentration data set was derived using measurements from the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) on the Nimbus-7 satellite and from the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0180 -126.0,24.0,66.0,54.0 2002-09-30T00:00:00Z 2003-09-30T00:00:00Z 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z

The Rapid Update Cycle analysis/model system at a 20-km horizontal resolution (RUC20) provides short-range numerical weather guidance for general forecasting, as well as for the special short-term ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0157 -107.5,39.5,-105.0,41.0 2003-04-08T00:00:00Z 2003-04-09T00:00:00Z 2003-09-18T00:00:00Z 2003-09-19T00:00:00Z 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z

This data set was collected to test the concept of measuring snow depth using aerial lidar. The data set consists of color infrared orthophotography (TerrainVision?? - High resolution Topographic ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0160 2002-11-01T00:00:00Z 2003-03-31T00:00:00Z 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z

This data set presents micrometeorological data from the Flux over Snow Surfaces (FLOSS) project carried out during the Cold Land Processes Field Experiment (CLPX) at North Park, Colorado, USA. The ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0159 -106.025,39.766945,-105.71694,40.00833-106.81694,40.341667,-106.541664,40.566666-106.41695,40.575,-106.14167,40.78361 2002-02-21T00:00:00Z 2002-02-21T00:00:00Z 2002-02-23T00:00:00Z 2002-02-23T00:00:00Z 2002-03-25T00:00:00Z 2002-03-25T00:00:00Z 2003-03-25T00:00:00Z 2003-03-25T00:00:00Z 2003-03-28T00:00:00Z 2003-03-28T00:00:00Z 2003-03-30T00:00:00Z 2003-03-30T00:00:00Z 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z

This data set contains Ku-band polarimetric scatterometer (POLSCAT) data collected as part of the Cold Land Processes Field Experiment (CLPX) to enable the development of a retrieval algorithm for ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0166 -105.9,39.95,-105.9,39.95 2003-02-17T00:00:00Z 2003-02-26T00:00:00Z 2003-03-26T00:00:00Z 2003-03-30T00:00:00Z 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z

This data set includes ground-based radar observations carried out at the Fraser Experimental Forest Headquarters, Colorado, USA (39.95 N, 105.9 W), between 17-26 February and 26-30 March 2003. Truck-mounted ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0175 -108.5,38.5,-104.0,42.0 2002-02-19T00:00:00Z 2002-02-23T00:00:00Z 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z

This data set consists of snow depth data from nine study areas, within three larger-scale areas in northern Colorado (Fraser, North Park, and Rabbit Ears Meso-cell Study Areas (MSAs)). The study ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0176 -108.5,38.5,-104.0,42.0 2002-02-19T00:00:00Z 2002-03-30T00:00:00Z 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z

This data set consists of snow pit data from nine study areas, within three larger-scale areas in northern Colorado (Fraser, North Park, and Rabbit Ears Meso-cell Study Areas (MSAs)). The study ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0163 2001-12-01T00:00:00Z 2002-03-27T00:00:00Z 2002-11-20T00:00:00Z 2003-03-24T00:00:00Z 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z

This data set presents micrometeorological data from the Flux over Snow Surfaces (FLOSS) project carried out during the Cold Land Processes Field Experiment (CLPX) at North Park, Colorado, USA. The ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0162 -106.41695,40.575,-106.14167,40.78361 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z

This data set presents micrometeorological data from the Flux over Snow Surfaces (FLOSS) project carried out during the Cold Land Processes Field Experiment (CLPX) at North Park, Colorado, USA. The ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0167 -105.88306,39.90361,-105.88306,39.90361 2003-03-24T00:00:00Z 2003-04-02T00:00:00Z 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z

This data set contains microwave radiometry data collected at the Local Scale Observation Site (LSOS) of the Cold Land Processes Field Experiment (CLPX) in Colorado, USA, during IOP4 (March-April ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0151 -108.5,38.5,-104.0,42.0 2002-02-15T00:00:00Z 2002-05-15T00:00:00Z 2003-02-15T00:00:00Z 2003-05-15T00:00:00Z 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z

This data set provides Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data from the Cold Land Processes Field Experiment (CLPX). These data are delivered in geographic (GEO) and Universal Tranverse ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0144 -108.5,38.5,-104.0,42.0 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z 2002-05-31T00:00:00Z 2003-02-01T00:00:00Z 2003-05-31T00:00:00Z 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z

This data set includes Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) F-13 passive microwave brightness temperatures gridded to the geographic (lat/long) and UTM grids of the Cold Land Processes ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0447 -180.0,0.0,180.0,90.0 1998-03-12T00:00:00Z 2011-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z

This data set consists of Northern Hemisphere snow depth analysis data processed by the Canadian Meteorological Centre (CMC). Snow depth data obtained from surface synoptic observations (synops), ...