Current activity in the exchange of environmental data between the United States and the Russian Federation
Abstract
In November, 2008 data exchange coordinators from NOAA, Roshydromet, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) met at the All Russian Institute for Hydrometeorological Information (RIHMI) in Obninsk, Russia to renew data exchange and research protocols, and to update existing data exchanges between the United States and Russia, many of which have been occurring since the 1970s. The coordinators also discussed the development of new data sets, the exchange of International Polar Year (IPY) data, the rescue of historical data from deteriorating media, and the conduct of joint research activities in support of data collection, compilation, and analyses. In addition to detailing new bilateral data exchanges and joint U.S.- Russian research activities, this paper provides an overview of the status of a number of environmental data sets presently available to researchers that are either directly exchanged between the United States and the Russian Federation or to which both the U.S. and Russia provide data.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2008
- Bibcode:
- 2008AGUFMGC41A0678S
- Keywords:
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- 1610 Atmosphere (0315;
- 0325);
- 1616 Climate variability (1635;
- 3305;
- 3309;
- 4215;
- 4513);
- 1630 Impacts of global change (1225);
- 1631 Land/atmosphere interactions (1218;
- 1843;
- 3322);
- 1637 Regional climate change