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Antarctic Education websites
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Antarctic Science News
Antarctic Activities (list of links to the websites of Antarctic organisations and projects)
Antarctica in pictures
Antarctica in numbers
Antarctic Stations
- List of Antarctic stations (linking to the website of COMNAP - the Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs)
Antarctic Maps and Data Fields
Geosciences
- Antarctic Bedrock Mapping (BEDMAP)
- Antarctic Digital Magnetic Anomaly Project (ADMAP)
- Topography: Antarctic Digital Databse (ADD)
- Antarctic seabed topography
- Offshore seismic profiles of multi-channel seismic-reflection data: Antarctic Seismic Data Library System (SDLS)
- Antarctic Seismology Web Resource (ANSWER)
- Master index for Antarctic positional control
- Geodectic Control Database
- Geophysical and geodetic observatories
- Access Antarctica
- Database on sediment and ice core data and other environmental information: PANGAEA
- US Polar Rock Repository
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
- All about Sea Ice from the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre
- Southern Ocean sea ice concentrations data
- Atlas of Antarctic Sea Ice Drift
- ER40 Atlas - ECMWF atlas of mean atmospheric fields as produced from their 40 year reanalysis
- SCAR REferenceAntarctic Data for Environmental Research (READER) aims to create high quality data sets of key variables for investigation of climate variability and change. There are currently 3 components:
- MET-READER - surface and upper air mean climate data
- OCEAN-READER - temperature, salinity and ocean current data from the Southern Ocean
- ICE-READER - basic data from the Antarctic ice cores (in preparation)
- All-sky keogram
- Glaciers Online
- International Antarctic Weather Forecasting Handbook download site
- SuperDARN radar sites
- Terrestrial weather at Antarctic stations
- World Data Centre for Glaciology, Cambridge
- Tide guage data archived by the Permanent Service for Mean Sea-level (PSMSL)
- Antarctic Ice Thickness and Bedrock Map (BEDMAP)
- Antarctic FROST Project (First Regional Observing Study of the Troposphere)
- Sea Ice Database (under development by ASPeCT - Antarctic Sea Ice Processes and Climate)
- Southern Ocean Programme Data
- Antarctic Regional Interactions Meteorology Experiment (RIME)
- El Niño and Antarctica
- Ozone Hole: The World Meteoroligical Organisation (WMO) regularly reviews information on the Antarctic ozone hole. For details please go to http://www.wmo.ch/web/arep/ozone.html
- Polar View - Earth Observation for Polar Monitoring: Polar view is part of the joint European Space Agency and European Commission programme called Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES), which is developing a range of environmental information services primarily from satellite earth observations. The Polar View programme is now extending services to the Southern Hemisphere. The Antarctic Node of Polar View will initially focus on delivering near real time information to contribute to safe and efficient ship naviagation in sea ice. Operational services started in October 2006. More information about Polar View can be found at http://www.polarview.aq/ and http://www.polarview.org
- Antarctic Sea Ice Visualisation by European Space Agency (ESA): Please see information on the movie of the scatterometer animation
Quicktime movie 5+MB version of the scatterometer animation
Quicktime movie 1MB version of the scatterometer animation
Standing Committee on Antarctic Data Management (SCADM)
The SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Data Management (SCADM) is is responsible for the Antarctic Data Directory System, centred on:
Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SC-AGI)
- Go to SC-AGI website
- Go to list of SC-AGI Members
SC-AGI is responsible for several initiatives:
- Antarctic Digital Database (ADD)
- Antarctic Map Catalogue
- King George GIS
- Composite Gazeeter of Antarctica
Antarctic Tourism
Other Antarctic Activities
Please also see links to National Programmes, ICSU Unions and other general Antarctic information websites
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