Related Information and Links

• Vai Pasifik is the joint newsletter of the Pacific Islands Observing Systems. To subscribe send an email to vai.pasifika@sopac.org
• NOAA/NODC World Ocean Database 2009
• EARTHZINE - Fostering Earth Observation & Global Awareness: http://www.earthzine.org/
• SIREN: http://geoss1.ms.northropgrumman.com The Northrop Grumman SIREN disaster response community portal presents an information system prototype for collaborative decision making; SIREN is built and operated by Northrop Grumman Corporation as part of its participation in the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP) programs. SIREN incorporates multiple user communities and demonstrates how communities of practice extend information sharing in response to disasters. Scenarios are user driven and use products derived from existing earth observing systems. The enterprise model for this hurricane and flooding scenario depicts an end-to-end approach to executing disaster response management. The power of the SIREN Portal lies in providing standardized services and components so that communities of interest can share a common suite of information to enable informed decision making. Ultimately, the overarching goal of the SIREN Community Portal is to start narrowing the information gap between systems, providers, analysts, and decision-makers. Contact: Dr. Ron Lowther - Ronald.Lowther@ngc.com
• The Environment Time: http://www.environmenttimes.net
  The Environment Time is the new United National Environment Programme (UNEP) global news journal on the environment.
• Ocean Magazine: http://www.oceanmag.org
  Ocean Magazine covers topics such as Hurricanes and Florida Manatees, providing the reader with scientific articles as well as poems and photographs "to celebrate and protect the Ocean". 'Ocean' is published 1/1, 4/1, 7/1 and 9/1. Diane Buccheri is Publisher and Editor.
• Emarine: http://www.imarest.org/emarine/
  Emarine is a free monthly newsletter produced by The Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology. It is for the benefit of the professional marine community and provides, among other things, news articles, worldwide event listings and free sample articles.
• METAR is the international standard code format for hourly surface weather observations which is analogous to the SA coding currently used in the US. The acronym roughly translates from French as Aviation Routine Weather Report. SPECI is merely the code name given to METAR formatted products which are issued on a special non-routine basis as dictated by changing meteorological conditions. The SPECI acronym roughly translates as Aviation Selected Special Weather Report. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/wdc/metar/index.php
• International Organization for Standardization (ISO): http://www.iso.ch
• Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC): http://www.fgdc.gov/
• ESRI GIS Standards and Interoperability: http://www.esri.com/software/opengis
• Open GIS Consortium (OGC): http://www.opengis.org
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): http://www.noaa.gov
• NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC): http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov
• NOAA's National Weather Service: http://www.nws.noaa.gov
• NOAA's Climate Prediction Center: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov
• NOAA El Niňo Theme page: http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/elnino/nino-home.html
• NOAA Climate Prediction Center El Niňo page: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/MJO/enso.shtml
• NOAA World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) Global Data Resource: http://woce.nodc.noaa.gov/
• NOAA World Newsletter
• International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE): http://ioc3.unesco.org/iode/
• World Data Center for Meteorology - (NOAA National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), Asheville, NC,USA)
• World Data Centre for Greenhouse Gases (WDCGG) (Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), Tokyo, Japan)
• World Ozone and UV Data Centre (WOUDC) Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC), Downsview, Canada
• World Radiation Data Centre (WRDC) (Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring, A.I. Voeikow Main Geophysical Observatory, St Petersburg, Russia)
• World Data Centre for Aerosols (WDCA) Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES), Ispra, Italy.
• World Precipitation Chemistry Data