Where can I get more info about the CRYOSPHERE?

 

Information and Images

Arctic and Antarctic ResearchCenter
The Arctic and Antarctic Research Center (AARC) maintains an archive of more than 70,000 satellite overpasses of the Arctic and Antarctic. Sample images are found at this site.
http://arcane.ucsd.edu

National Snow and Ice Data Center
The National Snow and Ice Data Center has links to many images.
http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu/NSIDC/gallery.html

Arctic Circle
This web site contains information about the environment, history and culture of the regions north of the Arctic Circle.
http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/

Project Glacier from Rice University
This web site contains information about Antartica and the surrounding ocean
http://www.glacier.rice.edu

 

Data Sources for the Polar Regions

National Snow and Ice Data Center
http://ns.noaa.gov/NESDIS/NESDIS_Home.html

National Ice Center
http://www.natice.noaa.gov/

Data from Greenland and GISP2
http://www.grg.sr.unh.edu/gisp2data.html

NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Reserach) Facilities
http://www.ncar.ucar.edu/info/facilities.html

 

More General Data Sources

Global Change Master Directory
http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/

National Climate Data Center
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/

Mission to Planet Earth
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/mtpe/mtpe.html

National Oceanographic Data Center
http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/

 

Papers and Books on the Polar Regions

Nicol, Stephen, and Ian Allison, The Frozen Skin of the Southern Ocean, American Scientist, 85, 426-439, 1997.

Barry, R.G. M.C. Serrez, J.A. Maslanik, and R.H. Preller, The Arctic Sea Ice-Climate System: Observations and Modeling, Reviews of Geophysics, 31, 397-422, 1993.

Cubasch, U., R. D. Cess, Processes and Modeling, Climate Change: The IPCC Scientific Asessment, edited by J.T. Houghton, G.J. Jenkins and J.J. Ephrams, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge England, 69-91, 1990.

Parkinson, C.L., Sea Ice, Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather, edited by S.H. Schneider, Oxford University Press, New York, 1996.

 

Atlases on the Polar Regions

Parkinson, C.L., J.C. Comiso, H.J. Zwally, D.J. Cavalieri, P. Gloersen, Arctic Sea Ice, 1973-1976: Satellite Passive-Microwave Observations, NASA SP-489, NASA, Washington D.C., 296pp, 1987.

Zwally, H.J., J.C. Comiso, C.L. Parkinson, W.J. Campbell, F.D. Carsey, P. Gloersen, Antarctic Sea Ice, 1973-1976: Satellite Passive-Microwave Observations, NASA SP-459, NASA, Washington D.C., 206pp, 1983.

Gloersen, P., W.J. Campbell, D.J. Cavalieri, J.C. Comiso, C.L. Parkinson, H. J. Zwally, Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice, 1978-1987: Satellite Passive-Microwave Observations and Analysis, NASA SP-511, NASA, Washington D.C., 290pp., 1992.

Environmental Working Group, Joint U.S. Russian Atlas of the Arctic Ocean, Oceanography Atlas for the Winter Period, CD-Version 1.0, 1997.

Gurney, R.J., J.L. Foster, and C.L. Parkinson, Atlas of Satellite Observations Related to Global Change, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, 470pp, 1993.