• Web Links

CRYSYS - CRYosphere SYStem in Canada

CRYOSPHERE RELATED WEBSITES

EOS DAACs:

• National Snow and Ice Data Center
• Polar DAAC User Working Group

EOS Sensors:

• AMSR Japan Homepage
• AMSR-E Science - NASA/GSFC
• NASA Earth Science Enterprise Satellite Missions
• MODIS Homepage
• RADARSAT-1
• RADARSAT-2

Other EOS Cryosphere-Related IDS Projects:

• Snow Hydrology Group, Hydrochemical Modeling, and Remote Sensing in Seasonally Snow-covered Alpine Drainage Basins
• Polar Exchange at the Sea Surface (POLES)

Miscellaneous:

• Alaska Paleoglacier Atlas
• Arctic Climate System Study (ACSYS)
• Arctic Environmental Atlas
• Arctic Environment - UNEP.Net
• Arctic Institute of North America (U. Calgary)
• Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS)
• Arctic Science and Technology Information System (ASTIS) database
• Arctic System Science (ARCSS) Data Coordination Center
• BASE - Beaufort and Arctic Storms Experiment, 1994 (data)
• Canadian Polar Information Network (CPIN)
• Canadian Ice Service
• CASES - Canadian Arctic Shelf Exchange Study
• CEOCat: catalogue of satellite images, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
• CEOS - Centre for Earth Observation Science, University of Manitoba
• Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) Project (World Climate Research Programme)
• Climate Ark - Climate Change & Renewable Energy Portal
• ColdLinks - NSIDC (excellent links to Cryospheric WWW Sites)
• Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL)
• Online Search of CRREL's Cold Regions Bibliography
• Eastern Snow Conference
• Earth Observing System Data and Information (EOSDIS)
• Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska
• Glaciology at Trent U.
• Global Change Master Directory
• Global Land Ice Monitoring from Space (GLIMS)
• International Arctic Buoy Program (IABP) - University of Washington
• International Association of Hydrological Sciences
• International Glaciological Association, British Branch (good glacier links)
• International Permafrost Association
• INRS-ETE - Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Eau, Terre et Environnement (Université du Québec)
• National Atlas of Canada (maps of snowfall, permafrost and glaciers)
• National Centers for Environmental Prediction Sea Ice Homepage
• National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center
• NOAA Climate Prediction Center - Current Monthly Atmospheric and SST Index Values, and Snow Cover
• Northern Information Network - Database directory for Northern Canada (DIAND)
• Polarweb - WWW Polar Resources Site
• Scott Polar Research Institute - several online databases ("Antarctica", "Ice and Snow", "Russian North")
• Terrain Sciences Division, Geological Survey of Canada (Glaciology, Permafrost and Climate Change)
• University of Alberta GLIMS Server
• University of Waterloo Weather Station (includes snow course data)
• Weekly Ice Thickness and On-Ice Snow Depth Measurements for Canadian Stations
• Western Snow Conference
• World Data Centre for Glaciology, Cambridge
• World Glacier Monitoring Service (good glacier links)

SNOW

Snow Info (near real-time):

• Alberta Snow Pillow Data (select basin then select snow)
• British Columbia Snow Survey Information
• NOAA Snow Cover Analysis Products (Global, USA)
• U.S. National Water and Climate Center (USDA)
• California Department of Water Resources: California Snow Page
• USDA Colorado Snow Surveys
• USDA Idaho Snow Surveys (winter only)
• Maine Cooperative Snow Survey - SWE Maps
• USDA Montana Snow Surveys
• USDA Oregon/Washington/N.California Snow Surveys
• USDA Utah Snow Surveys
• USDA Wyoming Snow Surveys
• Learn More about Canadian Snow Cover

Snow Research:

• All about Snow - NSIDC
• Niwot Ridge (Colorado) Long-Term Ecological Research
• Snow Mapping for the EOS Project - MODIS
• Snow Hydrology, U. California, Santa Barbara.

SEA ICE

Operational Ice Centers

• Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) - Polar Ice Charts
• Canadian Ice Service
• Danish Centre for Remote Sensing (DCRS)
• Finnish Institute of Marine Research - Baltic Sea Ice Conditions
• U.S. National Ice Center (NIC) - World Ice Charts, Global and Hemispheric Products

Sea Ice References

• Everything you ever wanted to know about sea ice, but were afraid to ask - NASA JPL
• Global Sea Ice Extent and Concentration: What sensors on satellites are telling us about sea ice (NSIDC)
• Learn about Seaice - Canadian Ice Service
• Remote Sensing of Great Lakes Snow and Ice
• Sea Ice in the Polar Regions - Learning Module, NASA GSFC
• Using Satellite RADAR Imagery to Study the Polar Regions

CRYOSPHERE RESEARCH

• Alfred Wegener Institute
• Arctic Climate System Study (ACSYS)
• Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
• Belgian Antarctic Research Program
• British Antarctic Survey
• Byrd Polar Research Center
• C-CORE
• Center for Geophysical Studies of Ice and Climate - St. Olaf College
• Cold Region Technology Center - Lulea University of Technology, Sweden
• Danish Polar Center
• Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska
• Institute for Marine Dynamics
• Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
• Institute of Ocean Sciences
• International Arctic Science Committee
• JPL- Polar Oceanography Group
• Maurice Lamontagne Institute
• New Zealand Antarctic Institute
• National Science Foundation - Polar Research
• Norwegian Polar Institute
• Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory- NOAA
• Polar Science Center - U. Washington
• Study of Environmental Arctic Change - SEARCH
• Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean - SHEBA
• Swedish Polar Research Secretariat
• The Labrador Sea Convection Experiment

REMOTE SENSING

• Alaska SAR Facility
• Canadian Space Agency
• Canadian Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS)
• Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center
• RADARSAT International

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