The CCIN, situated at the University of Waterloo, has been created primarily to be a data and information portal among Canadian scientists and with international colleagues.


Specifically, it has been designed to:

• improve awareness of data sources (inventory)
• improve data access (request, order, retrieval)
• provide cryospheric information to public and decision makers (website, outreach)
• link all distributed data sources at one focal point
• share data between GEO Connections and CCIN

Data Discovery and Access

The CCIN has a unified geographical user interface to facilitate data exploration and data mining exercises. The Network provides integrated access to a variety of historically disparate climate-related data sets of relevance to cryospheric research. For example, users are able to interactively identify a search location on a map and be provided with a listing of all relevant data sets available for that region. The CCIN then negotiates with all selected data providers on behalf of the user to fill data requests in near real-time.