Climate Change Links

British Antarctic Survey (www.antarctica.ac.uk) is frequently updated and includes data on ozone at various stations, background data, related resources, and links to temperature and ozone graphs.

British Atmospheric Data Center (www.badc.rl.ac.uk), based within the Space Science and Technology Department at the Rutherford Appleton Library, gives users access to numerous searchable atomospheric and stratrospheric data sets.

EPA’s Global Warming site (www.epa. gov/globalwarming), operated by the U.S. EPA, contains a wealth of elementary information about global warming, such as what the problem is and what we know about. It also contains links to a slew of reports on this topic written by EPA scientists and other international authorities.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (www.ipcc.ch), operated by the United Nations, assesses the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant to the understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change. The site provides access to the IPCC’s influential climate change reports, which are based on reviews of peer-reviewed science, as well as guidelines for conducting national greenhouse gas inventories.

International Center for Antarctic Information and Research (arcticcentre.ulapland.fi/polarweb/polar/lbnzicai.htm), a joint initiative between New Zealand, the United States, and Italy, provides leadership on collection and dissemination of scientific information on Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, links to research data, and reports.

National UV Monitoring Center (oz.physast.uga.edu) at the University of Georgia provides data from a group of high spectral resolution spectroradiometers located throughout the United States that measure full-sky solar UV-B and UV-A spectral flux.

NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory (www.al.noaa.gov), one of 12 labs operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, has the goal of improving the capability to observe, understand, predict, and protect the quality of the atmosphere. The site has data on greenhouse warming and stratospheric ozone depletion in various regions and links to data sets, publications, and ongoing research.

Pew Center on Global Climate Change (www.pewclimate.org), a nonprofit, nonpartisan, and independent organization, offers a collection of reports analyzing climate change policy, economics, and science. The site also is the home of the Business Environmental Leadership Council, a group of leading companies worldwide that have committed to addressing global climate change.

Stratospheric Ozone and Human Health Project (sedac.ciesin.org/ozone), maintained by Columbia University’s Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) in collaboration with the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), includes data about ultraviolet light exposure in different U.S. cities calculated by the Ultraviolet Interactive Service (UVIS) using NASA satellite data, as well as a near real-time-UV-dose estimates for most of the populated areas on earth.

U.S. Global Change Research Program (www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp), which was created by a U.S. presidential initiative in 1989, has the mission to provide the foundation needed to improve predictions of seasonal-to-interannual variability and longterm climate change. The site contains information about research in each of the program’s focus areas, including composition and chemistry of the atmosphere; biology and biogeochemistry of ecosystems; carbon cycle science; human dimensions of global change; paleoenvironment and paleoclimate; and the global water cycle.

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)—The Ozone Secretariat (www.unep.org/ozone/index.asp) links to UNEP and U.N. organizations, U.N. Convention on Climate Change, scientific and policy sites on ozone depletion, global data reports, and the WMO/UNEP Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion (1998), which includes input from more than 300 scientific experts.

Woods Hole Research Center (www.whrc.org) addresses global warming and climate change with projects using remote sensing to study the world’s major forested regions, including the tropical rain forest of Brazil and the boreal forests of Siberia.

World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) Atmospheric Research and Environment Program (AREP) (www.wmo.ch/web/arep/arep-home.html), which is operated by the United Nations, fosters research on the structure and chemical composition of the atmosphere. The site has links to the observatories operated through the organization’s Global Atmosphere Watch.

World Resources Institute’s (WRI) Climate and Atmosphere (climate.wri.org) site contains papers and publications, facts and figures on global warming, including greenhouse gas emissions and climate data sources, international organizations, global statistics, maps, and indicators.