| Title |
Global Resource Information Database GRID |
| Address |
http://www.grid.unep.ch/dbase.html |
| Host |
GRID Geneva, Switzerland |
| Description |
This is a UNEP Centre for environmental information and early
warning activities, with major responsibilities in geo-spatial data and
information. GRID centres collectively hold digital maps at various scales
covering a wide variety of human and natural themes. Public domain datasets, eg
a digital elevation model of Europe, are made available to all non-commercial
users at no cost. |
| Title |
Matthews Global Seasonally Integrated Albedo |
| Address |
http://www-cger.nies.go.jp/grid-e/gridtxt/grid7.html |
| Host |
GRID |
| Description |
The data set includes four data files for Winter, Spring,
Summer, and Autumn (January, April, July and October respectively in the
Northern Hemisphere; and July, October, January and April for the Southern
Hemisphere). They show the seasonal percentage of incoming radiation reflected
into space, integrated across the electro-magnetic spectrum. These are based on
the vegetation and cultivation intensity maps, rather than being measured
directly, and are for snow-free conditions except for permanently snow-covered
continental ice. |
| Title |
Matthews Global Vegetation Data |
| Address |
http://www-cger.nies.go.jp/grid-e/gridtxt/grid5.html |
| Host |
GRID, UNEP |
| Description |
The data set comes from a global map of vegetation types,
which was compiled from up to 100 existing map sources. It shows the
predominant vegetation type (one out of 32 classes) within each one
degree-square latitude/longitude grid cell. |
| Title |
Global Forest Fire Data |
| Address |
http://www.grid.unep.ch/fires/ |
| Host |
GRID, UNEP |
| Description |
The map shows the principal fires that are currently recorded
worldwide. The most recent image is available by clicking on the fire icons. A
more complete set of images is available through the list of reports. During
the period of low fire activity, this website is updated every two weeks. |
| Title |
Annual Methane Emission from Animals |
| Address |
http://www.grid.unep.ch/datasets/gnv-data.html |
| Host |
GRID, UNEP |
| Description |
This one-degree latitude/longitude spatial resolution data
set of Methane Emission from Animals data set was compiled at the NASA/Goddard
Institute of Space Studies (GISS) from nine animal population densities.* The
statistics on animal populations came from the Food and Agricultural
Organization (FAO) and other sources. The animals were distributed across a
one-degree lat/ long grid of national political boundaries, and sub national
boundaries for Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, India, USA and former USSR.
|
| Title |
TOMS Ozone Image Data 1978-91 |
| Address |
http://www.grid.unep.ch/datasets/gnv-data.html |
| Host |
GRID, UNEP |
| Description |
The Nimbus-7 platform follows a sun-synchronous polar orbit
to measure total in-column ozone over the entire world for every 24
hour-period. This ozone measurement is inferred from differential absorption of
scattered sunlight in the ultraviolet range, using a ratio of two wavelengths
(e.g. 312 and 331 nm.) to perform the calculation. While the TOMS instrument
takes measurements within a 50 km.-square IFOV, the data provided on the CD-ROM
have been resampled to a global grid (cylindrical equidistant projection) of
one degree latitude by 1.25 degrees longitude. |
| Title |
Persistent Organic Pollutants POPs |
| Address |
http://irptc.unep.ch/pops/ |
| Host |
UNEP chemicals |
| Description |
POPs are chemical substances that persist in the environment,
bioaccumulate through the food web, and pose a risk of causing adverse effects
to human health and the environment. With the evidence of long-range transport
of these substances to regions where they have never been used or produced and
the consequent threats they pose to the environment of the whole globe, the
international community has now, at several occasions called for urgent global
actions to reduce and eliminate releases of these chemicals. |
| Title |
CO2 discharged from Fossil Fuel consumption and Cement
Production |
| Address |
http://www-cger.nies.go.jp/grid-e/gridtxt/grid28.html |
| Host |
GRID |
| Description |
1950 - 1985 : National CO2 emission estimates derived from
fossil fuels and cement manufacturing (Marland et al.) 1990 - 2100 : CO2
emission estimated by a revised ASF model (IRS91 scenario was used) a)
calculated value; not altered b) calculated values after 1990 for developed
countries - USA, OECDW, OECDE were adjusted to values in 1990. |
| Title |
NASA Atmospheric Sciences Data Center |
| Address |
http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/ |
| Host |
NASA, Langley, USA |
| Description |
Large number of data sets available, relating to radiation,
clouds aerosols and tropospheric chemistry. Newly released data and images from
the CERES, MISR, and MOPITT instruments aboard the Terra spacecraft are now
available. |
| Title |
MOPITT Data Set |
| Address |
http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/PRODOCS/mopitt/table_mopitt.html |
| Host |
NASA Langley, USA |
| Description |
Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) will
generate atmospheric profiles of CO using thermal radiation at 4.7 um. Column
carbon monoxide and methane are measured using channels at 2.4 and 2.3 um,
respectively, to sense solar radiation from the surface. MOPITT was
successfully launched into polar orbit aboard Terra, NASA's first Earth
Observing System spacecraft (EOS AM-1), on December 18, 1999. |
| Title |
Biomass Burning Data Sets |
| Address |
http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/PRODOCS/bio_burn/table_bio_burn.html |
| Host |
NASA, Langley, USA |
| Description |
This data set represents the geographical and temporal
distribution of total amount of biomass burned. These data may be used in
general circulation models (GCMs) and in photochemical models of the
atmosphere. |
| Title |
Global Terrestrial Experiment Data Sets |
| Address |
http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/PRODOCS/gte/table_gte.html |
| Host |
NASA, Langley, USA |
| Description |
GTE consists of a series of airborne field experiments
designed to (1) evaluate the capability of instrument techniques to measure,
under field conditions, the minute concentrations of key chemical species in
the atmosphere and (2) systematically address tropospheric chemistry issues
relevant to global change, through airborne sampling expeditions, coupled with
modeling and laboratory studies. |
| Title |
GES Distributed Active Archive Center |
| Address |
http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/ |
| Host |
NASA Goddard, USA |
| Description |
The Atmospheric Chemistry section contains information about
the UARS (Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite), TOMS (Total Ozone Mapping
Spectrometer), SSBUV (Shuttle Solar Background Ultraviolet), and other
atmospheric chemistry related data. |
| Title |
Center for Air Pollution Impact and Trend Analysis
CAPITA |
| Address |
http://capita.wustl.edu/CAPITA/ |
| Host |
School of Engineering, Washington University, St Louis,
USA |
| Description |
Many data sets available, mainly concerned with aerosol data
and visibility, and meteorological data. The site also acts as a Bulletin Board
for discussion on various aspects of atmospheric chemistry. |
| Title |
World Data Centre for Aerosols |
| Address |
http://www.ei.jrc.it/ei/database/index.html` |
| Host |
JRC, Ispra, Italy |
| Description |
The World Data Centre for Aerosols is a contribution to the
GLOBAL ATMOSPHERE WATCH of the WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANISATION. |
| Title |
World Data Center for Atmospheric Trace Gases |
| Address |
http://www.wdc.rl.ac.uk/wdcmain/wdca/wdca_atmosgas.html |
| Host |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA |
| Description |
Varied data on emissions of radiatively active trace gases
and their concentrations in the atmosphere, oceans, and the
biosphere,including: Time series of concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2),
ozone, methane, nitrous oxide, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), CFC replacement
species, and HCFCs from ice cores and monitoring stations around the world.
Global, regional and national emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel
combustion and cement manufacturing, 1950-1993; decadal carbon dioxide
emissions on a 1 degree x 1 degree lat/long global grid, 1950-1990. Also
Optical depth measurements in the troposphere and stratosphere. |
| Title |
World Data Centre for Sunspot Index |
| Address |
http://www.wdc.rl.ac.uk/wdcmain/wdcc1/wdcc1_sunspot.html |
| Host |
Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels. |
| Description |
Zürich daily, monthly, monthly smoothed and yearly
sunspot numbers, respectively since 1812, 1750 and 1700 (Rz) up to 1980; daily,
monthly, monthly smoothed and yearly International Sunspot Numbers Ri computed
from local Wolf numbers observed by a network of 45 (provisional data) to 100
(definitive data) observing stations, including Brussels, with Locarno
(Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese) as reference station, since 1981; since
1992, North and South daily and monthly sunspot numbers Rn and Rs from a
network of 25 to 45 stations (a subsystem of the former); individual original
data on spots and groups from which Ri is calculated. |
| Title |
World Data Centre for Solar-Terrestrial Physics |
| Address |
http://www.wdc.rl.ac.uk/wdcmain/wdcc1/wdcc1_solar.html |
| Host |
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Chilton, UK |
| Description |
Vertical soundings of the ionosphere from 1957 onwards,
Solar-geophysical indices, and solar wind data. |
| Title |
World Ozone and Ultraviolet Radiation Data Centre |
| Address |
http://www.tor.ec.gc.ca/woudc/ |
| Host |
Environment Canada, Toronto |
| Description |
The WOUDC began as the World Ozone Data Centre (WODC) in 1960
and produced its first data publication of Ozone Data for the World in 1964. In
June 1992, the AES agreed to a request from the WMO to add ultraviolet
radiation data to the WODC. |
| Title |
Global Emissions Inventory Activity |
| Address |
http://www.geiacenter.org |
| Host |
University of Mitchigan, USA |
| Description |
(GEIA) was created in 1990 to develop and distribute global
emissions inventories of gases and aerosols emitted into the atmosphere from
natural and anthropogenic (human-caused) sources. The long-term goal is to
develop inventories of all trace species that are involved in global
atmospheric chemistry. The requirements for a data set to be accepted as a GEIA
data base include substantial peer review as reflected by acceptance for
journal publication and agreement among the individual GEIA project teams.
|
| Title |
Choice by CO2 |
| Address |
http://www.geic.or.jp/choco2.html |
| Host |
Global Environment Information Centre, Japan |
| Description |
CHOCO2 or "Choice By CO2" is a study on CO2 emissions from
electrical appliances, including TVs, air conditioners, refrigerators, video
decks, CD players, laptop computers, faxes and colour printers. The new CHOCO2
Study - Choice by CO2 - including cars and off-road vehicles for the first
time. The study reviews a total of 1642 automobiles covering seven types,
ranking them according to CO2 emissions. |
| Title |
Greenhouse Gas Air Travel Emissions |
| Address |
http://www.chooseclimate.org/flying/index.html |
| Host |
Choose Climate, UK |
| Description |
Calculates CO2, NOx and H2O emissions per passenger for any
flight based on the Great Circle Route. |
| Title |
Cities Environment Reports on the Internet |
| Address |
http://www.ceroi.net/ |
| Host |
UNEP/GRID |
| Description |
The concept provides city authorities with an efficient tool
to produce and present a report of the cities' environment on Internet. It
includes a template with standard indicators and a tailor-made software for
easy presentation of graphs, maps, photographs and text. Some air pollution
data is included. |
| Title |
Global Sulfur Emissions Database |
| Address |
http://www.asl-associates.com/sulfur1.htm |
| Host |
ASL Associates, Montana, USA |
| Description |
The database allows for the estimation of the global
emissions of sulfur from 1850 to 1990. A common methodology was applied across
all years and countries. The data can be downloaded as a text file. |
| Title |
Air Pollution Effects on Plants |
| Address |
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/airweb/ |
| Host |
University of Newcastle, UK |
| Description |
Images of the effect of accute air pollution ( SO2, O3,
Fluoride) on vegetation. |
| Title |
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program |
| Address |
http://www.arm.gov/ |
| Host |
US Department of Energy |
| Description |
ARM scientists focus on obtaining field measurements and
developing models to better understand the processes that control solar and
thermal infrared radiative transfer in the atmosphere (especially in clouds)
and at the earth's surface. "Quick-Looks" are daily and weekly plots of ARM
data. They are provided to give users a browsable quick view of a subset of
data available at the ARM Archive. A complete listing of ARM data streams are
on the ARM Archive web site. |
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