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State of the Environment Database of Antarctic related indicators
Antarctica is the world's greatest remaining wilderness area. It plays a significant role in many global environmental issues such as wind and water currents and world weather patterns.
State of the Environment Reporting:
- provides a 'snap-shot' of the status of the Antarctic environment
- relies on long-term monitoring of environmental and other variables
- allows the detection of trends and patterns, which may be due to natural variability or human-induced (anthropogenic) pressures
Why are we interested?
State of the Environment Reporting allows us to:
- assess the quality of the Antarctic environment
- identify threats to the Antarctic environment
- monitor the pressures we exert on it and track the impact and efficiency of our activities in the Antarctic.
How do we do it?
State of the Environment Reporting is based on environmental indicators. Indicators:
- are data that summarise physical, chemical, biological or socio-economic factors which best represent the key elements of the environment
- are grouped into themes
We have developed a web-accessible computer system called SIMR that manages the indicator data, metadata, and custodian information. The system automatically prompts custodians for data and evaluations when required and can produce reports on indicators via the web whenever requested.
Simple
Identification info
- Alternate title
- State of the Environment Database of Antarctic related indicators
- Date (Publication)
- 2003-08-11
- Edition
- 1
Originator
Publisher
Principal investigator
Collaborator
- Name
- CAASM Metadata
- Status
- On going
Custodian
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Environment
- Geoscientific information
- Health
- Inland waters
- Oceans
- Society
- Structure
- Transportation
Extent
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Extent
- Description
- Temporal Coverage
Temporal extent
- TimePeriod
- 1948-01-01
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
-
- EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE
- EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY
- EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS
- EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD TYPES
- EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > LIQUID PRECIPITATION > RAIN
- EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > SUNSHINE
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > BIOMASS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > VEGETATION COVER
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > VEGETATION SPECIES
- EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICE EXTENT
- EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS > CONTAMINANT LEVELS/SPILLS
- EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > HABITAT CONVERSION/FRAGMENTATION > URBANIZATION/URBAN SPRAWL
- EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > INFRASTRUCTURE > BUILDINGS
- EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > INFRASTRUCTURE > CULTURAL FEATURES
- EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > INFRASTRUCTURE > TRANSPORTATION
- EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SURFACE WATER > SURFACE WATER FEATURES > LAKES/RESERVOIRS
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > CONDUCTIVITY
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY
- EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > PLANTS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS > PLANKTON > PHYTOPLANKTON
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS > PLANKTON
- Keywords
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- ANTARCTICA
- CLIMATE CHANGE
- INDICATORS
- SOE
- SOUTHERN OCEAN
- STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- AMD/AU
- CEOS
- AMD
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > MACQUARIE ISLAND
- CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > HEARD AND MCDONALD ISLANDS
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- This metadata record is publicly available.
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- licence
- Other constraints
- The database is available via the provided URL. Not all indicators are publicly available, and not all are currently maintained..
Resource constraints
- File type
- Portable Network Graphic
- Title
- Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Website
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
Legal code for Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 International license
- Use constraints
- licence
- Other constraints
- This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=DB_SOE when using these data.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
Distributor
- Fees
- free
- Planned available datetime
- 2003-08-11T00:00:00
- OnLine resource
-
GET DATA
State of the Environment Database
- OnLine resource
-
PROJECT HOME PAGE
State of the Environment Home Page
- OnLine resource
-
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Maintenance note
- 2018-01-05 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates.
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- string/DB_SOE
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Author
Sponsor
Owner
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- 6ec7ee03-21f8-40d3-8948-bd2238a48578
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Date (Last Revision)
- 2015-11-30T07:12:27
Identifier
- Description
- metadata.extraction_date
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- 8.6
- Metadata linkage
-
http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/DB_SOE
Point of truth for the metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2003-08-11T00:00:00
- Date info (Last Update)
- 2018-01-05
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3
- Edition
- 2014
- Other citation details
- Version 1
- Title
- DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile
Overviews
Spatial extent
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