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Scripps
Institution of Oceanography (link verified 25 June 2008).
Smithsonian
Institution: Specific programs included in the USGCRP.(link
verified 25 June 2008)
Socioeconomic Data and Applications
Center (SEDAC). "SEDAC, the Socioeconomic Data and Applications
Center, is one of the Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) in the
Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) of the U.S.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. SEDAC focuses on human
interactions in the environment. Its mission is to develop and operate
applications that support the integration of socioeconomic and Earth science
data and to serve as an "Information Gateway" between the Earth
and social sciences. "(link verified 25 June 2008)
Space Science and Engineering Center,
University of Wisconsin(link verified 25 June 2008)
START (a global change SysTem for Analysis,
Research and Training). START is sponsored by the Human Dimensions
of Global Environment Change Program, International Geosphere-Biosphere
Program, and the World Climate Research Program. START "focuses on
global change issues in specific regional contexts and promotes interdisciplinary
research, at a regional level, on the interactions of human and environmental
systems affecting and being affected by global changes." This site
is a rich and up-to-date source of information. It includes a list of
upcoming events and many on-line documents. (25 September, 1996)(link
verified 25 June 2008)
Temperature World.
Temperature news, resources and links. (22 May 1998)(link verified 25
June 2008)
UK Met Office(link verified
25 June 2008)
UM Weather.
Sponsored by The Weather Underground
at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Includes WeatherSites,
an extensive list of weather-related links(link verified 25 June 2008)
United
Nations Environment Program (UNEP) (link verified 25 June 2008)
United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC). Site managed by UNFCCC Secretariat and the
United Nations Environment Program's Information Unit for Conventions
(see entry below for material generated by the UNEP Information Unit for
Conventions). See also Beginners
Guide to Climate Change -- For Kids. Animations from the United
Nations Secretariat of the Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Part of a site established for the Convention's Third Conference of the
Parties in Kyoto, Japan, December 1997.(link verified 25 June 2008)
United Nations Environment Program (UNEP),
I Includes links to major conventions related to the environment,
including the Vienna Convention and the Framework Convention on Climate
Change The climate change section includes basic background information
on the convention, including a Beginner's
Guide to the Framework Convention. Also provides a Climate
Change Information Kit based on information available through 1996;
and a set of more
than 90 fact sheets. (link verified 25 June 2008)
United Nations Environment Program
(UNEP), Ozone Secretariat(link verified 25 June 2008)
United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)
Collaborating Center on Energy and Environment (Roskilde, Denmark)(link
verified 25 June 2008)
US Department of Agriculture (USDA):
US Department of
Defense (DOD): Specific programs included in the USGCRP.(link
verified 25 June 2008)
US
Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health:
Specific programs included in the USGCRP.
US Department of the
Interior
United States, Department of Transportation, Center
for Climate Change and Environmental Forecasting. "This
DOT Center is an initiative of the U.S. Department of Transportation,
dedicated to fostering awareness of the potential links between transportation
and global climate change, and to formulating policy options to deal with
the challenges of these links."(link verified 25 June 2008)
US Geological Survey (USGS).
See US Department of the Interior, USGS.
US
Global Change Data and Information System. A "collection of distributed
information systems operated by government agencies involved in global
change research."Global Change - Assisted Search for Knowledge allows
users to quickly and easily search a set of databases which otherwise
would require separate and burdensome searches.(link verified 25 June
2008)
US
Global Change Research Information Office.
US Global Learning &
Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE)
US Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics (GLOBEC)
research program. Program "organized by oceanographers and fisheries
scientists to address the question of how global climate change may affect
the abundance and production of animals in the sea."(link verified
25 June 2008)
Earth
Observing System (EOS) Project Science Home Page. EOS constitutes
the heart of NASA's Mission to Planet Earth. The system "will
provide a major comprehensive global observing system that will
offer insights into the natural processes that govern our Earth
as well as the possible changes that may occur in the atmosphere,
on the land, and in the oceans as a result of human activities."
Among the site's offerings is EOS's bimonthly publication, The
Earth Observer.(link verified 25 June 2008)
Earth
Science Enterprise. See also Earth
Science Enterprise: For Kids Only and Our
Mission to Planet Earth teacher's guide for grades K-4.(link
verified 25 June 2008)
Earth Science Enterprise,
Earth Observing System Data Information System, Earth Science
Data and Information System Project (EOSDIS/ESDIS)(link
verified 25 June 2008)
Goddard Global Change Data
Center(link verified 25 June 2008)
Goddard Institute
for Space Studies (GISS). Goddard describes its research
as emphasizing "a broad study of global change, an interdisciplinary
research initiative addressing natural and man-made changes
in our environment which occur on various time scales from decades
to millennia and which affect the habitability of our planet."
Among the site's offerings is an informative series
of documents describing GISS' research. The series includes
a set of "Popular
Science" papers in which GISS scientists summarize
their work "with the aim of briefly communicating to the
public the relevance and even excitement of our research."
Global
temperature trends are an important area of research for
the institute. According to GISS, it "has set up a system
to get the most out of the available surface
air temperature data, developing and refining techniques
to eliminate outliers and station discontinuities, and to combine
the data into one coherent data set." The site provides
regularly updated tables and figures showing temperature trends.
(link verified 25 June 2008)
Goddard Space Flight
Center (link verified 25 June 2008)
Observatorium.
This is "where you can monitor regional and global changes
on our planet almost as they happen" and "can explore
with NASA scientists the causes and effects of climatic and
environmental change through the use of real satellite data."
(link verified 25 June 2008)
Natural Disaster Reference
Database(link verified 25 June 2008)
Climate/Weather/Earth Hotlist
(sponsored by NASA and Rice University)(link verified 25 June
2008)
Quest Web. Site designed
to "provide support and services to schools, teachers and
students to fully utilize the Internet, and its underlying information
technologies, as a basic tool for learning." Includes series
of "Sharing NASA" projects which "allow students
to share in the excitement of authentic scientific and engineering
pursuits." One recent (January-March 1997) project, Live
from Antarctica 2, "provided the latest information
on issues of global climate change, the stability of Antarctic
ice-shelves and ice-sheets and the ozone." (link verified
25 June 2008)
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Specific NOAA
programs included in the USGCRP.(link verified 25
June 2008)
Aeronomy
Laboratory. "Conducts fundamental research on
the chemical and physical processes of the Earth's atmosphere."(link
verified 25 June 2008)
Climate Diagnostics Center(link
verified 25 June 2008)
Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics
Laboratory(link verified 25 June 2008)
Climate
Prediction Products. Available products include predictions
(ranging from 6-10 day forecasts to multi-season climate outlooks),
assessments (including annual climate assessments), climate
data/indices (US Palmer drought data, etc.), special summaries
(excellent reports on major anomalies), and a stratosphere page
(including data on ozone levels, temperatures and a UV-index).(link
verified 25 June 2008)
Coral
Health and Monitoring Program (link verified 25 June 2008)
Environmental
Information Services(link verified 25 June 2008)
Environmental Technology Laboratory
(Boulder, Colorado)(link verified 25 June 2008)
Satellite Information
System. "Central location for finding information
about NOAA environmental satellites (GOES and POES)."(link
verified 25 June 2008)(link verified 25 June 2008)
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
(Princeton, New Jersey). "The goal of GFDL's research
is to understand and predict the earth's climate and weather,
including the impacts of human activities." Includes GFDL
Gallery, with images of hurricanes, global warming, stratospheric
processes, El Niño, cyclones and storms. (link verified
25 June 2008)
Integrated Ocean Observing
System (IOOS)(link verified 25 June 2008)
National Climatic Data Center
(NCDC). Rich source of information, ranging from In
the Spotlight to an excellent list of Links
to Other Weather/Climate Related Sites and a Global
Warming Page.(link verified 25 June 2008)
National Environmental
Satellite, Data, and Information Service.(link verified
25 June 2008)
National Geophysical Data
Center(link verified 25 June 2008)
National
Oceanographic Data Center (NODC)(link verified 25 June 2008)
National
Severe Storms Laboratory(link verified 25 June 2008)
National
Weather Service. The NWS has five major operating
centers in support of the NWS mission. Among
these are:
- The National
Centers for Environmental Prediction ( NCEP
) is a group of NINE specialized centers for analyzing
and forecasting the atmosphere on a global scale with
some geographically separated centers having a specialized
service focus on portions of the overall national
warning and forecasting process.(link verified 25
June 2008)
- The Hydrologic
Information Center ( HIC ) is a specialized
center which covers rivers, flooding, flood warnings,
and related water conditions for the U.S. and adjacent
international areas.(link verified 25 June 2008)
- The National
Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center (
NOHRSC ) is the NWS center of expertise in satellite
and airborne remote sensing and geographic information
systems used to support the NWS operational hydrology
program for the Nation.(link verified 25 June 2008)
See also: National
Weather Service (Tallahassee, Florida), Weather Information
Superhighway. A "comprehensive collection
of meteorological data, information, and image sites
around the globe."(link verified 25 June 2008) |
Office of Global Programs.(link
verified 25 June 2008)
Pacific Marine Environmental
Laboratory
Regional
Climate Centers
CoastWatch.
"Makes satellite data products and in-situ data from NOAA
environmental
buoys available to Federal, state, and local marine scientists
and coastal resource managers."(link verified 25 June 2008)
SUV
Index Home Page
Sponsored by NOAA
and the
US Environmental Protection Agency(link verified 25 June 2008)
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US National Science and Technology
Council, Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, Subcommittee
on Natural Disaster Reduction (SNDR). (link verified 25 June 2008)"The
SNDR is made up of representatives from Federal government agencies addressing
natural hazards from the points of view of assessment, mitigation, and
warning. The goal of the SNDR is to create a sustainable society, resilient
to natural hazards."
University College Dublin, Energy Research
Group (Ireland). The group conducts "research, development, consultancy,
education and dissemination activities on energy utilization in buildings
and climate-sensitive architectural design."(link verified 25 June
2008)
University Corporation
for Atmospheric Research. "UCAR is a consortium of universities
that educate scientists and pursue research to enrich our understanding
of the earth system."(link verified 25 June 2008)
University of Alabama in Huntsville,
Atmospheric Science Department, Earth System Science Laboratory, Microwave
Sounding Units (MSU) Data. The MSU aboard satellites have monitored
global temperatures since 1979. (link verified 25 June 2008)
University of Delaware:
University of
Hawaii, Tropical Storm Tracks(link verified 25 June 2008)
University of Maryland Meteorology
Department. Includes access to Maryland
Earthcast, an easy-to-use "navigator" with links to thousands
of sites providing information on earth-system science (from weather forecasts
to satellite images).(link verified 25 June 2008)
University of New Hampshire, Institute
for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Climate Change Research Center.
"...[D]evoted to the retrieval and interpretation of global change
records that document climate (response and forcing), biogeochemical cycling,
atmospheric chemistry, unique atmospheric phenomena (e.g. extreme events,
volcanic events, biomass burning) and the influence of human activities
on our environment." (link verified 25 June 2008)
University of Oxford (UK), Environmental
Change Institute.(link verified 25 June 2008)
University
of Oklahoma Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (link verified
25 June 2008)
University
of Wisconsin (Madison), Space Science and Engineering Center's Daily Satellite
Images/Composites (SSEC)(link verified 25 June 2008)
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