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The AirData
Web site gives you access to air pollution data for the entire United
States that includes the "six criteria pollutants" as defined by the Clean
Air Act. AirData produces reports and maps of air pollution data based on
criteria that you specify.
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Climate
perspective reports (monthly climate reports, climatic extremes, global
surface temperature anomalies, etc.) for the year 2001, from the National
Climatic Data Center (NCDC).
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Generate maps
of 1990 US Census data down to the blockgroup level for any county,
combination of counties, or state in the US.
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The EROS Data
Center (EDC) stores, processes, and distributes a variety of data,
including cartographic data, satellite data, and aircraft data. The EDC
houses a variety of USGS digital cartographic data products. The EDC's
archives also hold the world's largest collection of civilian remotely
sensed data covering the Earth's land masses, housing millions of
satellite images and aerial photographs. As part of its role as a data
archive, the EDC operates the National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data
Archive, a legislatively mandated program designed to maintain a high
quality data base of space-acquired images of the Earth for use in
studying global change and other related issues.
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The Emissions
& Generation Resource Integrated Database (E-GRID) is a comprehensive
source of data on the environmental characteristics of all electric power
generated in the United States.
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Data base of
major environmental treaties and agreements. Find important policy
instruments by keyword or country and find out which countries are
signatories. Links to the full text of treaties and to treaty summaries
are provided.
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The IRI/LDEO
Climate Data Library at Columbia University contains a wide variety of
earth science data, primarily oceanographic and atmospheric data sets.
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NCAR maintains
a large collection of atmospheric and oceanographic data for use in
climate research. The NCAR Research Data page gives you access to these
collections, along with important information about the collections and
their use, as well as links to other research data held elsewhere.
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The Satellite
Active Archive is NOAA's on-line facility for the distribution of NOAA and
US Department of Defense Polar-Orbiting Satellite data and derived
satellite products.
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This database
contains data from both intervention and non-intervention scenarios of
future emissions of greenhouse gases, supporting the activities of the
IPCC Special Report on Emission Scenario (SRES). The goal of the SRES was
to provide a basis for analysis of potential future climatic changes and
associated impacts as well as a reference for socio-economic analysis of
long-term mitigation options. Several of the scenarios are the results of
an integrated assessment (IA) model - they take into consideration the
interactions between energy, economy, and land use changes.
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Inventory of
U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2000. Central to any study
of climate change is the development of an emissions inventory that
identifies and quantifies a country's primary anthropogenic sources and
sinks of greenhouse gases. This current inventory adheres to both (1) a
comprehensive and detailed methodology for estimating sources and sinks of
anthropogenic greenhouse gases, and (2) a common and consistent mechanism
that enables signatory countries to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to compare the relative contribution
of different emission sources and greenhouse gases to climate change.
Moreover, systematically and consistently estimating national and
international emissions is a prerequisite for accounting for reductions
and evaluating mitigation strategies.
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The USDA
Global Change Program Office (GCPO) operates within the Office of the
Chief Economist and functions as the Department-wide coordinator of
agriculture, rural and forestry-related global change program and policy
issues facing USDA. The Office ensures that USDA is a source of objective,
analytical assessments of the effects of climate change and proposed
mitigation strategies. The Office also serves as USDA's focal point for
climate change issues and is responsible for coordinating activities with
other Federal agencies, interacting with the legislative branch on climate
change issues affecting agriculture and forestry, and representing USDA on
U.S. delegations to international climate change discussions.
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