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| The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established jointly by the World Meteorological Organization and the U.N. Environment Programme to evaluate information relevant to climate change and its impacts, and to suggest possible responses. Its home page www.ipcc.ch/ The IPCC issues periodic climate assessments and projections: for a synthesis of the most recent one, see www.ipcc.ch/pub/un/syreng/spm.pdf NASA offers an excellent series of features on paleoclimatology(study of ancient climates) linked from earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/Paleoclimatology/paleoclimatology-intro.html The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has a collection of annotated slides of climate-related studies and features online www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/slides/slideset/ Information about El Niño and related phenomena can be found at topex- www.jpl.nasa.gov/science/el-nino.html The Global Hydrology and Climate Center is accessible via topex- www.jpl.nasa.gov/science/pdo.html The U.S. government maintains an extensive site of climaterelated data, the Global Change Data and Information System: globalchange.gov For site-specific satellite images of various environmental changes: edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/earthshots/slow/tableofcontents One of the functions of the Earth Observing System (EOS) of satellites is to monitor climate-related phenomena. EOS imagery and related graphics on such subjects as the greenhouse effect, ocean processes, clouds and storms can be searched through the EOS home page: eos.gsfc.nasa.gov Visuals and information intended specifically for educational purposes can be reached via eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/eos_homepage/for_educators/ index.php Charles Sturt University has set up a site assembling links to a variety of sites pertinent to weather and global monitoring, grouped by topic and region; see www.csu.edu.au/weather/ Human impacts of global change are evaluated by the Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network; their Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center is accessible at sedac.ciesin.org or www.ciesin.org Indicators of Arctic climatic change are found at www.arctic.noaa.gov/detect Another major site for environmental-change data, the Center for Data on Ice, Atmosphere and Climate of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is at cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/ In 2000, the National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change was released; it can be found at www.gcrio.org/NationalAssessment or sedac.ciesin.org/NationalAssessment The British Antarctic Survey Ice and Climate Division presents a variety of information on snow and ice studies and related climate issues at http://www.nbs.ac.uk/public/icd/ National Snow and Ice Data Center (U.S.) provides a variety of information on snow and ice processes and interactions with atmosphere and oceans: www-nsidc.colorado.edu Current data and trends are available through their "State of the Cryosphere" site: nsidc.org/NASA/SOTC/ instaar.colorado.edu/ For additional information on glacier terminus changes and glacier water resources, contact North Cascade Glacier Research at www.nichols.edu/departments/glacier/ Graphical information on climate past is available through the publication"Global temperature in past centuries" www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/ei/ei_cover.htm A tutorial on climate from Manchester Metropolitan University, U.K., is found at www.ace.mmu.ac.uk/Resources/gcc/contents.html Trends in soil moisture from 1948 to 2002 are illustrated at www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/pr05003pdsi_h.jpg |