HR: 0800h
AN: C21B-1107    [Abstracts]
TI: National Snow and Ice Data Center: Antarctic Data Management Support
AU: * Bauer, R
EM: bauerr@nsidc.org
AF: National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado CIRES 449 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309 United States
AU: Scambos, T
EM: scambos@nsidc.org
AF: National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado CIRES 449 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309 United States
AU: Scharfen, G
EM: scharfen@nsidc.org
AF: National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado CIRES 449 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309 United States
AU: Judy, C
EM: judyc@nsidc.org
AF: National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado CIRES 449 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309 United States
AB: The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) operates two Antarctic data management projects for the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs (OPP). The U.S. Antarctic Glaciological Data Center (AGDC) provides data management for the U.S. Antarctic Glaciological Program and related cryospheric science investigations. AGDC archives and distributes physical and geochemical data from ice cores, ice surface elevations, ice thickness, and bedrock topography, snow accumulation data and 10-meter temperatures, ice velocity measurements from remote sensing imagery and field survey data. The U.S. Antarctic Data Coordination Center (USADCC) provides a U.S. focus for the development of data set descriptions (metadata in the form of Directory Interchange Format entries) for the Antarctic Master Directory (AMD). The AMD contains more than 3000 data set descriptions submitted by 22 countries with Antarctic science programs. The USADCC provides access to easy to use web based tools to create metadata, and can advise investigators on compliance with the OPP Guidelines and Award Conditions for Scientific Data.
UR: http://nsidc.org/agdc
DE: 0700 CRYOSPHERE (4540)
DE: 4540 Ice mechanics and air/sea/ice exchange processes (0700, 0750, 0752, 0754)
SC: Cryosphere [C]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005