MODELS
Wageningen UR
CO2FIX model by Alterra
SWAP model by Alterra
CLUE model by Wageningen University
TRADEOFF model by Wageningen University
Interesting models from other institutes
IMAGE 2 Model (RIVM)
RAINS a model from IIASA
MIASMA Model (ICIS-Maastricht/RIVM)
Java Climate Model (Universiteit Leuven)
Climate Prediction (Berkley Open Infrastructure)
Climate models IPCC 4AR (Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison)
Databases
China Dimensions Data Collection
Guides for and access to a rich collection of data resources on the
People's Republic of China. Highlights include digital administrative boundaries;
fundamental GIS layers; county-level data on population, agriculture, economics
and hospitals; and interactive access to the 1982 census of population.
Climate
Impact Database of Greenpeace
The International Disaster Database (including hydro-meteorological disasters)
ENTRI- Environmental Treaties
and Resource Indicators Service
A searchable relational database containing international environmental
treaties, treaty summaries, treaty status files and natural resource
indicators.
Gridded
Population of the World
Dataset description and access to world and continental population
counts and density on a 5 minute grid.
Global
Population Database
Population data on a 20 minute by 30 minute grid for more than 100
nations; includes urban density circles.
Georeferenced
Population Data Sets of Mexico
Dataset description and access to various population GIS coverages
of Mexico.
Monitoring
Environmental Progress
Interactive query of the World Bank's database of indicators of
environmentally sustainable development.
Social Indicators
of Development
Interactive query of the World Bank's dataset containg 125 socioeconomic
variables from more than 170 economies for the period 1965-1993.
Information Systems
Annotated Guide to Earth Remote
Sensing Data and Information Resources for Social Science Applications
Online version of Appendix A in
People
and Pixels: Linking Remote Sensing and Social Science (Committee on the
Human Dimensions of Global Change. D. Liverman, E. Moran, R. Rindfuss, and
P. Stern, eds., National Academy Press, 1998).
Geosystems Databases
Infrastructure Program (GEODATA)
Geosystems Databases is intended to provide scientists with the necessary
resources to assemble and use global climate change data and information
efficiently and effectively for research and education.
Global Environment Information
Center
Provides information to the Major Groups identified in Agenda 21 -
mostly the small civil groups and individuals.
Land and Water Knowledge Management
Node
LW-KMN is a specialized electronic information library to promote
more efficient and sustainable management of land and water resources in
developing countries and the world.
Stratospheric Ozone and Human
Health Project
A suite of information products in the areas of ultraviolet (UV)
radiation, ozone, and human health impacts of UV exposure.
Interactive Applications
MVA- Model Visualization and Analysis
for Integrated Assessment Models of Climate Change
Access to guide information on Integrated Assessment Modeling, selected IAMs, and scenario outputs from selected IAMs.
SRES
- Open Process Site for the IPCC
Special Report on Emissions Scenarios
Access and provide feedback on scenarios of future greenhouse gas emissions
prepared by Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.