Book Description
The Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) is a comprehensive source of information about earth science, environmental, biosphere, climate, and global change data.
Author : L. Olsen
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Page : pages
File Size : 36,9 MB
Release : 1998
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The Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) is a comprehensive source of information about earth science, environmental, biosphere, climate, and global change data.
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File Size : 36,69 MB
Release : 1999
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File Size : 13,6 MB
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Highlights a directory about Earth science and global change data, provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Allows users to search for Earth science data, including agriculture, oceans, atmosphere, land surface, biosphere, solar physics, solid earth, cryosphere, and hydrosphere.
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Page : 6 pages
File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 1999*
Category : Global environmental change
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Author : United States. Interagency Working Group on Data Management for Global Change
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Page : 112 pages
File Size : 22,31 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Climatic changes
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Author : Andrew Goudie
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Page : 1405 pages
File Size : 35,25 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Global environmental change
ISBN : 0195108256
This reference work concentrates upon both the natural and man-made changes to the world's environment. Containing over 300 original, signed articles by distinguished scholars and 1,500 illustrations it is the comprehensive encyclopedia for this multi-discipline, high profile field. Articles fall into the general categories of: concepts of global change, earth and earth systems, human factors, resources, responses to global change agreements and associations, biographies and case studies. The accessible and jargon-free language make it an excellent work for the professional scholar as well as the interested general reader and a detail network of cross references and blind entries will help readers at all levels.
Author : Shana Hertz Hattis
Publisher : Bernan Press
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 50,21 MB
Release : 2011-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1598884921
The United States Government Internet Directory (formerly the e-Government and Web Directory: U.S. Federal Government Online) serves as a guide to the changing landscape of government information online. The Directory is an indispensable guidebook for anyone who is looking for official U.S. government resources on the Web. The U.S. government's information online is massive and can be difficult to locate. Thus you need The United States Government Internet Directory to navigate the maze of data and locate the materials you seek. --Book Jacket.
Author : Virginia Ann Baldwin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 48,64 MB
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1317955315
Discover important Internet resources for research data made public individually and collectively by researchers from a variety of entities in the fields of environmental studies and ecology Online Ecological and Environmental Data explores innovative projects from a diverse array of institutions that have made environmental and ecological research information freely available online. You will find a wealth of Web site listings with URLs and complete descriptions, data field descriptions, controlled vocabulary examples, and Web screen shots that demonstrate how to use a specific site. The book will help you locate the data, procedures, instruments, notes, and other descriptive information that scientists and engineers need for replicating and building on the research of others. With Online Ecological and Environmental Data, you'll gain a better understanding of: * the cooperative design, development, and management of interdisciplinary data * cataloging multidisciplinary environmental data * data networking * new developments in information science and technology * extracting and compiling data * the convergence and dissemination of information via the Internet This unique resource explores the potential of distributing actual research data on the Web. The information you'll find in this book will enable science and technology librarians to provide effective access to library patrons. Online Ecological and Environmental Data will give librarians and other information specialists—as well as faculty and students in library sciences and technology—cutting-edge knowledge to meet the global data and information needs of the scientific community. The projects described in this book can serve as models for other disciplines, especially for the various aspects of handling data made available online, and for making this data more available and usable on the Internet for researchers and students.
Author : Climate Change Science Program (U.S.)
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Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,37 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biotic communities
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Author : Andrew Goudie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1513 pages
File Size : 28,50 MB
Release : 2008-11-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0190295910
The Oxford Companion to Global Change is an up-to-date, comprehensive, interdisciplinary guide to the range of issues surrounding natural and human-induced changes in the Earth's environment. In one convenient volume, the Companion brings together current knowledge about the relations between technological, social, demographic, economic, and political factors as well as biological, chemical, and physical systems. It is an essential reference work for students, teachers, researchers, and other professionals seeking to understand any aspect of global change.