NADC

The National Ant-/Arctic Data Centre of Germany (NADC) was founded 2010-06-01, following the nomination of a new representative of Germany in the Join Comittee of Antarctic Data Management of SCAR (SC-ADM) during the meeting of the German LA-SCAR.

The web site is operated under the domain www.nadc.de and includes two data centers for both hemispheres.

Web site draft
Home of www.nadc.de shows two graphs of Artic and Antarctic. Links behind the graphs point to the data centres (subdomains) for each hemisphere at
 * www.nadc.de/ant (or ant.nadc.de) behind http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iceage_north-intergl_glac_hg.png
 * www.nadc.de/arc (or arc.nadc.de) behind http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iceage_south-intergl_glac_hg.png

Antarctic Menue:
 * HOME
 * DATA
 * PANGAEA
 * Examples
 * Publications
 * RESEARCH
 * SC-GIS
 * ABOUT

Content HOME
Following the Antarctic Treaty, that "Scientific observations and results from Antarctica shall be exchanged and made freely available." (section III.1.c), Germany operates a National Antarctic Data Center. The NADC is located at the Alfred Wegener Institute - Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven. This web site provides example data sets, resulting from research of Germany with a list of Institutes in Germany, involved in research in Antarctica.

Content DATA
The NADC uses the data library PANGAEA - Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data for the publication and distribution of data. Descriptions of all data sets are distributed via webservices to portals, library catalogs and search engines. One copy serves the Antarctic Master Directory (AMD). The [NADC PANGAEA Search] allows to find datasets south of 60°S. Some comprehensive data sets from research at AWI are presented on the [Examples] page.

Content DATA/PANGAEA: Use Pangaea simple search to find data sets south of 60°S or confine your query by using the advanced search in combination with GIS functionality. -> Search Portal

Content DATA/Examples:
 * Sea floor images from the Southern Ocean
 * Southern Ocean Atlas
 * Photos and x-radiography of sediment cores
 * EPICA Ice core
 * Time series of the German permanent station
 * Daily image from King George Island
 * Animal tracking of seals and sea elephants
 * Bottom topography of the Antarctic ice sheet
 * Geological maps
 * Sediment echo sounding and bathymetry

Content DATA/Publications

 * Expeditions of the German polar research vessel POLARSTERN [eXpedition]
 * see also http://www.pangaea.de/PHP/CruiseReports.php?b=Polarstern
 * Reports on Polar and Marine Research
 * Polarforschung
 * WDC-MARE Reports
 * ESSD

RESEARCH: Listed are institutes in Germany, which are involved in Antarctic research and which have provided data to the NADC.
 * AWI
 * BGR
 * BKG

Functionalities

 * image of the day
 * new data set allert for users
 * RSS feed showing the most recent data sets (as on http://earth-system-science-data.net/)
 * data portal (just on pangaea, limited to south of 60°S /north of 60°N)

Links

 * Scientific Committe on Antarctic Data Management (SCADM)
 * Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SC-AGI)
 * Marine Biodiversity Information Network (SCAR-MarBIN)

This web site is operated by AWI (Impressum); content and data are published under the CC-by licence.