| 1. Collective picture of climate change |
| (1) General |
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC)
http://cdiac.ornl.gov |
CDIAC gathers, archives and provides data related to carbon dioxide and other radioactive gases in the atmosphere, terrestrial and oceanic biogeochemical cycles, and emissions of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
[Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), U.S Department of Energy (DOE)] |
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Global Environmental Database
http://db.cger.nies.go.jp/en/index.html |
The Global Environmental Database gathers, archives and provides descriptions and data on climate change such as monitoring of greenhouse gases, carbon sinks and sources, material flow, and impact assessment and countermeasures. Research results and information on atmospheric environment, oceanic and inland water environment and other subjects are also available to the public.
[National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES)] |
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Science Data Base
http://polaris.nipr.ac.jp/~dbase/e/ |
The Science Data Base gathers, archives and provides metadata and links to the sources of Antarctic and Arctic research data on for example space and upper atmosphere, meteorology and glaciology, geoscience, bioscience and operational observation.
[National Institute of Polar Research] |
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| (2) Atmosphere |
WMO World Data Centre for Greenhouse Gases (WDCGG)
http://ds.data.jma.go.jp/gmd/wdcgg/ |
WDCGG gathers, archives and provides data and descriptions of greenhouse gases and related gases in the atmosphere and the oceans. The contributors are worldwide organizations and researchers.
[Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA)] |
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World Data Center for Meteorology, Asheville (WDC for Meteorology)
http://gosic.org/wdcmet |
WDC for Meteorology, Asheville gathers, archives and provides meteorological data sets and products that have been obtained by various international programs. The International Council for Science (ICSU) has set up this WDC for meteorology among other WDCs. The links to other WDCs can be found on this site.
[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)] |
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Earth System Research Laboratory (Global Monitoring Division) GLOBALVIEW
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/globalview/ |
GLOBALVIEW gathers data from the world on carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases observations. It archives and provides integrated data products for use in carbon cycle modeling studies.
[NOAA] |
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| (3) The Oceans |
JapanArgo
http://www.jamstec.go.jp/J-ARGO/index_e.html |
JapanArgo gathers, archives and provides vertical profiles of temperature and salinity data from the ocean surface to a depth of 2,000 meters, which has been automatically obtained by a large array of profiling floats.
[JapanArgo, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)] |
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Global Ocean Data Analysis Project (GLODAP)
http://cdiac.ornl.gov/oceans/glodap/Glodap_home.htm |
GLODAP gathers, archives and provides data relating to the distribution of natural and anthropogenic inorganic carbon in the Pacific, the Indian and the Atlantic Oceans.
[NOAA, ORNL, DOE] |
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NEAR-GOOS Regional Delayed Mode Data Base (RDMDB)
http://near-goos1.jodc.go.jp/index.html |
The People’s Republic of China, Japan, the Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation have implemented the North-East Asian Regional (NEAR)-Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) as a regional pilot project of GOOS. RDMDB gathers, archives and provides oceanographic and marine meteorological data in the region. User registration is required.
[JODC] |
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Japan Oceanographic Data Center (JODC)
http://www.jodc.go.jp/index.html |
JODC gathers, archives and provides data of oceanographic observations by Japanese and international oceanographic research organizations.
[JODC] |
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Inventory for Japanese Chemical oceanographic Data (IJCD)
http://ijcd.jp/index.html |
IJCD gathers, archives and provides chemical oceanographic data such as carbon dioxide related data, dissolved oxygen, nutrients and other chemical tracers obtained by research vessels.
[IJCD] |
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Indian Ocean Moored buoy network Initiative for Culture Studies (IOMICS Web)
http://www.jamstec.go.jp/iorgc/iomics/index.html |
IOMICS Web gathers, archives and provides oceanographic and marine meteorological data obtained by the moored buoy network in the tropical Indian Ocean.
[JAMSTEC] |
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A-line Database
http://hnf.fra.affrc.go.jp/a-line/data/index_e.html |
A-line Database gathers, archives and provides CTD data, nutrient/chlorophyll-a data, plankton data, and metadata obtained along the A-line, a repeated hydrographic section across the Oyashio region off the Hokkaido Island.
[Fisheries Research Agency (FRA)] |
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Japan Fisheries Oceanography Database (JFODB)
http://jfodb.dc.affrc.go.jp/kaiyodb_pub/index-e.shtml (*currently out of service) |
JFODB gathers, archives and provides physical oceanographic and biological survey data in the Japanese waters, some of which have been recorded since 1894.
[FRA] |
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N-line Database
http://hnf.fra.affrc.go.jp/n-line/index_e.html |
N-line Database gathers, archives and provides CTD data, nutrient/chlorophyll-a data and plankton data obtained along the N-line, a repeated hydrographic section across the Okhotsk region off the Hokkaido Island.
[FRA] |
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| (4) Land |
FluxNet Global Network (FLUXNET)
http://www.fluxnet.ornl.gov/ |
FLUXNET gathers, archives and provides data obtained from micro-meteorological observation towers. The more than 500 tower sites have been operated continuously for a long period.
[ORNL, DOE] |
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AmeriFlux Network (AmeriFlux)
http://public.ornl.gov/ameriflux/
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AmeriFlux, a regional network of FLUXNET, gathers, archives and provides data obtained from observation tower sites in North America, Central America and South America. (User registration is required.)
[ORNL, DOE] |
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AsiaFlux Website (AsiaFlux)
http://asiaflux.net/ |
AsiaFlux, a regional network of FLUXNET, gathers, archives and provides data obtained from observation tower sites in Asia. (User registration is required.)
[AsiaFlux Secretariat, Yonsei University] |
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Ecosystem Database (EcoDB)
http://ecomdb.niaes.affrc.go.jp/ |
EcoDB gathers, archives and provides micro-meteorological data such as temperature, humidity, wind speed, radiation as well as heat balance, CO2, CH4, and O3 concentrations and flux at ground monitoring sites in Japan, Asia, North America and Italy.
[National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences] |
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Phenological Eyes Network (PEN)
http://pen.agbi.tsukuba.ac.jp/
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PEN gathers, archives and provides automatic-capturing digital images on phenological and long-term changes of ground-level plant ecosystems.
[University of Tsukuba] |
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Database of climate change observation
