Date

Multiple Websites Available

  1. Beta Advanced Data Search
    National Snow and Ice Data Center

  2. New Website Available
    ARCSS Study: 8000 Years of Climate Variability from Arctic Lakes

  3. Internet Resource List Available
    Polar Education Resources

  4. New Website Available
    Future of Arctic Sea Ice and Global Impacts

  1. Beta Advanced Data Search
    National Snow and Ice Data Center

The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) announces their new Beta
Advanced Data Search. Powered by the NSIDC Searchlight engine, the Beta
release Advanced Data Search online tool delivers data downloads
immediately, and allows the user to control on-the-fly reformatting,
reprojection, and subsetting.

While the Searchlight engine provides extensive functionality for
searching, browsing, retrieving, and manipulating NSIDC data holdings,
it was built with more than just data search in mind. It represents a
suite of fundamental architectural changes that allow development of
even more capabilities to help researchers work with cryospheric data.
At this time, a limited selection of NSIDC data holdings is available
through the interface. NSIDC is working to make all data holdings
available via this interface in the future. Data sets currently
available include:

- AMSR-E/Aqua Daily EASE-Grid TBs
- AMSR-E/Aqua Daily Global Quarter-Degree Gridded TBs
- AVHRR Polar Pathfinder Twice-Daily 5 km EASE-Grid Composites
- AVHRR Polar Pathfinder Twice-Daily 25 km EASE-Grid Composites
- DMSP SSM/I Pathfinder Daily EASE-Grid TBs
- GLAS/ICESat 1 km Laser Altimetry DEM of Greenland
- Global EASE-Grid 8-day Blended SSM/I and MODIS Snow Cover
- Greenland Ice Sheet Melt Characteristics Derived from Passive
Microwave Data
- Near Real-Time DMSP SSM/I Daily Polar Gridded Sea Ice
Concentrations
- Near Real-Time DMSP SSM/I Pathfinder Daily EASE-Grid TBs
- Nimbus-7 SMMR Pathfinder Daily EASE-Grid TBs
- Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I Passive
Microwave
- Snow Data Assimilation System (SNODAS) Data Products at NSIDC

To try the Beta Advanced Data Search, please go to:
http://nsidc.org/searchlight. Context-sensitive help links are available
for each of the search fields to help guide you through the interface if
needed.

If you have any questions about this new search or would like to provide
feedback on your experience, please contact the NSIDC User Services
Office at: nsidc [at] nsidc.org.

  1. New Website Available
    ARCSS Study: 8000 Years of Climate Variability from Arctic Lakes

A new website is available for the Arctic System Science (ARCSS) 8k
project. The website, entitled '8000 Years of Climate Variability from
Arctic Lakes,' is located at: http://www.arcus.org/synthesis8k/.

The ARCSS 8k study contributes to the long-term perspective on natural
climate variability that is needed to understand historically
unprecedented changes now occurring in the Arctic. Rapid changes in the
arctic climate system that occurred in the relatively recent past can be
compared with the output of climate models to improve the understanding
of the processes responsible for nonlinear system change.

The first project meeting was held in December 2009. Background and
discussion notes are available by clicking on the 'Project History and
Plans' link.

Contributions are invited from the projects' principal investigators and
collaborators, and anyone with relevant material. Organizers are
particularly interested in obtaining additional material for the section
on study sites.

For additional information, or if you have questions or comments, please
contact:
Darrell Kaufman
Email: Darrell.Kaufman [at] nau.edu

  1. Internet Resource List Available
    Polar Education Resources

The Polar Education Resources webpage provides an annotated list of some
of the best Internet resources for polar education. The website is
available at: http://delicious.com/nsfopp.

Resources are tagged by grade level, subject area, and resource type.
Educators can filter the list using any combination of tags. Available
resources include lesson ideas, eBooks, photo galleries, and video and
audio podcasts, as well as background content information for educators.

The resources were collected by Marti Canipe, an Einstein Fellow serving
in the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Polar Programs (OPP).

  1. New Website Available
    Future of Arctic Sea Ice and Global Impacts

Those interested in the Arctic--students, researchers, and anyone
wondering how the northern polar region affects their life--can learn
about the longer-reaching impacts of the loss of arctic summer sea ice
via a new website launched at: http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/future.

The website describes the relationship seen between the loss of the
summer sea ice and a warmer atmosphere in the Arctic in autumn. Climate
models also show that changes in the Arctic can impact weather in the
mid-latitudes, where a large part of the population lives. Information
from the recent scientific literature is pulled together on this website
as a way to highlight the continuing loss of arctic sea ice in summer
and its broader implications for climate. Among these is a possible
connection between loss of summer arctic sea ice and winter storms in
the U.S. and elsewhere.

The website was supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) Climate Program Office through the Arctic Research
Program and developed at NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory.