Information and Images
Arctic and Antarctic ResearchCenter
National Snow and Ice Data Center
Arctic Circle
Project Glacier from Rice University Data Sources for the Polar Regions
National Snow and Ice Data Center
National Ice Center
Data from Greenland and GISP2
NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Reserach) Facilities More General Data Sources
Global Change Master Directory
National Climate Data Center
Mission to Planet Earth
National Oceanographic Data Center 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.
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
The National Snow and Ice Data Center has links to many images.
http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu/NSIDC/gallery.html
This web site contains information about the environment, history and culture of the regions north of the Arctic Circle.
http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/
This web site contains information about Antartica and the surrounding ocean
http://www.glacier.rice.edu
http://ns.noaa.gov/NESDIS/NESDIS_Home.html
http://www.natice.noaa.gov/
http://www.grg.sr.unh.edu/gisp2data.html
http://www.ncar.ucar.edu/info/facilities.html
http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/mtpe/mtpe.html
http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/