Development of information-computational infrastructure for environmental research in Siberia as a baseline component of NEESPI studies

Gordov, E.P., Bryant, K., Bulygina, O.N., Fritz, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0420-8549, Kraxner, F., McCallum, I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5812-9988, Obersteiner, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6981-2769, Schepaschenko, D.G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7814-4990, & Shvidenko, A.Z. (2013). Development of information-computational infrastructure for environmental research in Siberia as a baseline component of NEESPI studies. In: Regional Environmental Changes in Siberia and their Global Consequences. Eds. Groisman, PY & Gutman, G, pp. 19-55 Springer. 10.1007/978-94-007-4569-8_2.

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Abstract

This chapter provides a brief description of the information resources currently supporting environmental studies of Siberia including key references and points of contact. It describes environmental, hydrological, and meteorological datasets available for Siberia as well as the tools developed to organize and seamlessly deliver these data to the international research community for studying regional environmental and climatic dynamics of the ongoing global changes. Three-hour and daily datasets of major meteorological characteristics measured at the Siberian weather stations and relevant metadata sets are the first tangible resources available to the researchers. However, most of the Siberian territory is sparsely populated and the observational networks that provide regional in situ observations are also sparse. Therefore, other information resources described below are based upon, or include as their integral part, remote sensing and model output data. These resources are (a) land information system for Siberia that includes cartographical materials, data of different inventories and surveys, diverse databases of in situ measurements and remote sensing products, and numerous auxiliary models for assessment of relevant biophysical indicators of Siberian ecosystems; (b) remote sensing Earth observation products and tools for data search, data access, data visualization, and analysis over Siberia; and (c) a suite of online systems to monitor, process, visualize, analyze, and access Earth science remote sensing products and regional climatic and meteorological geospatial datasets, as well as a variety of geospatial data on climate, climate forecast, hydrology, hydrological forecast, environmental remote sensing, socioeconomic information, etc.

Item Type:	Book Section
Research Programs:	Ecosystems Services and Management (ESM)
Bibliographic Reference:	In: PY Groisman, G Gutman (eds); Regional Environmental Changes in Siberia and their Global Consequences; Springer pp.19-55
Depositing User:	IIASA Import
Date Deposited:	15 Jan 2016 08:49
Last Modified:	19 Oct 2022 05:00
URI:	https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/10562

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