Northern Circumpolar Soils Map, Version 1

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Resource Abstract:
This data set consists of a circumpolar map of dominant soil characteristics, with a scale of 1:10,000,000, covering the United States, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, northern Europe, Russia, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan. The map was created using the Northern and Mid Latitude Soil Database. The map is in ESRI Shapefile format, consisting of 11 regional areas.. Polygons have attributes that give the percentage polygon area that is a given soil type. The map shows the dominant soil of the spatial polygon unless the polygon is over 90 percent rock or ice. It also shows the proportion of polygon encompassed by the dominant soil or nonsoil. Soils include turbels, orthels, histels, histosols, mollisols, vertisols, aridisols, andisols, entisols, spodosols, inceptisols (and hapludolls), alfisols (cryalf and udalf), natric great groups, aqu-suborders, glaciers, and rocklands. Data are available via ftp.
Citation
Title Northern Circumpolar Soils Map, Version 1
publication  Date   2002-01-01
Edition 1
edition Date 2002-01-01
cited responsible party - principalInvestigator
individual Name Charles Tarnocai
organisation Name  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
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Address
K.W. Neatby Building, Room 1135, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, , K1A 0C6 Country Canada
electronic Mail Address tarnocaict@em.agr.ca
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URL: http://nsidc.org
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cited responsible party - principalInvestigator
individual Name John M. Kimble
organisation Name  US Department of Agriculture
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Voice 1 402 437 5376
Fax 1 402 437 5336
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Federal Building, Room 152, MS33, 100, Lincoln, NE, 68508-3866 Country USA
electronic Mail Address jkimble@gw.nssc.nrcs.usda.gov
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cited responsible party - principalInvestigator
individual Name D Swanson
organisation Name  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
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cited responsible party - principalInvestigator
individual Name S Goryachkin
organisation Name  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
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individual Name Ye M Naumov
organisation Name  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
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cited responsible party - principalInvestigator
individual Name Vladimir Stolbovoi
organisation Name  International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
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, , ,  Country Austria
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individual Name B Jakobsen
organisation Name  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
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individual Name G Broll
organisation Name  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
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cited responsible party - principalInvestigator
individual Name L Montanarella
organisation Name  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
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individual Name A Arnoldussen
organisation Name  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
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individual Name O Arnalds
organisation Name  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
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individual Name M Yli-Halla
organisation Name  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
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cited responsible party - publisher
organisation Name  Research Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
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, Ottawa, Canada,  Country 
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URL: http://nsidc.org
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Keywords:
Location keywords:
Geographic Region > Polar > NONE > NONE > NONE > Circumpolar
thesaurus name >
Title NASA / GCMD Location Keywords
revision  Date   2008-02-05
Theme keywords (theme):
EARTH SCIENCE > Land Surface > Frozen Ground > Permafrost
EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Permafrost
EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Frozen Ground > Permafrost
EARTH SCIENCE > Agriculture > Soils > Permafrost
EARTH SCIENCE > Land Surface > Soils > Soil Classification
EARTH SCIENCE > Agriculture > Soils > Soil Classification
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Title NASA / GCMD Science Keywords
revision  Date   2008-02-05
Theme keywords (theme):
Cryosphere
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Title Realm > Hydrosphere
publication  Date   2018-11-21
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Nov 21 22:36:03 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Geography
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Title Science Domain > Earth Science
publication  Date   2018-11-21
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Nov 21 22:36:03 UTC 2018
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ESRI
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Title Organization > Commercial Organization
publication  Date   2018-11-21
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Nov 21 22:36:03 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Glacier
Permafrost
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Title Feature > glacial feature
publication  Date   2018-11-21
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Nov 21 22:36:03 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Characteristic
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Title Feature > Marine Feature
publication  Date   2018-11-21
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Nov 21 22:36:03 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Soil
Histosol
Vertisol
Andosol
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Title Material > Environmental Material
publication  Date   2018-11-21
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Nov 21 22:36:03 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Scale
Frozen
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Title Property > Measure
publication  Date   2018-11-21
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Nov 21 22:36:03 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
National Snow and Ice Data Center
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
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Title Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Corporate Names
publication  Date   2018-11-21
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Nov 21 22:36:03 UTC 2018
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Scientific Research
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Resource progress code:  completed
Resource Maintenance Information
maintenance or update frequency:  asNeeded
update scope:  dataset
update scope:  series
update scope:  attribute
Constraints on resource usage:
Legal Constraints
Access Constraints  otherRestrictions
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Access Constraints : none
Other constraints
Use Constraints : none
Resource extent
Extent description
SpatialCoverageType=HORIZONTAL, SpatialGranuleSpatialRepresentation=GEODETIC, TemporalRangeType=Continuous Range, TimeType=UTC
Geographic Extent
Geographic Bounding Box
westBoundLongitude  -180.0
eastBoundLongitude  180.0
northBoundLatitude  90.0
southBoundLatitude  45.0
point of contact - principalInvestigator
individual Name Charles Tarnocai
organisation Name  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Contact information
Address
K.W. Neatby Building, Room 1135, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, , K1A 0C6 Country Canada
electronic Mail Address tarnocaict@em.agr.ca
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URL: http://nsidc.org
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individual Name NSIDC User Services
organisation Name  National Snow and Ice Data Center
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Telephone
Voice 1 303 492 6199
Fax 1 303 492 2468
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CIRES, 449 UCBUniversity of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309-0449 Country USA
electronic Mail Address nsidc@nsidc.org
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URL: http://nsidc.org
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point of contact - custodian
individual Name NSIDC User Services
organisation Name  National Snow and Ice Data Center
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Telephone
Voice 1 303 492 6199
Fax 1 303 492 2468
Address
National Snow and Ice Data CenterCIRES, 449 UCBUniversity of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309-0449 Country USA
electronic Mail Address nsidc@nsidc.org
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URL: http://nsidc.org
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point of contact - distributor
individual Name NSIDC User Services
organisation Name  National Snow and Ice Data Center
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 1 303 492 6199
Fax 1 303 492 2468
Address
National Snow and Ice Data CenterCIRES, 449 UCBUniversity of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309-0449 Country USA
electronic Mail Address nsidc@nsidc.org
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Identifier string: CARTESIAN
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distributor contact - distributor
individual Name NSIDC User Services
organisation Name  National Snow and Ice Data Center
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Telephone
Voice 1 303 492 6199
Fax 1 303 492 2468
Address
National Snow and Ice Data CenterCIRES, 449 UCBUniversity of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309-0449 Country USA
electronic Mail Address nsidc@nsidc.org
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URL: http://nsidc.org/forms/GGD602_or.html?major_version=1
link function function
Description Direct download, with optional registration page.
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name Documentation
URL: http://nsidc.org/data/docs/fgdc/ggd602_map_cryosols/index.html
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Description Documentation explaining the data and how it was processed.
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Format name ESRI Shapefile
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Metadata data stamp:  2013-01-17
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individual Name NSIDC User Services
organisation Name  National Snow and Ice Data Center
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 1 303 492 6199
Fax 1 303 492 2468
Address
National Snow and Ice Data CenterCIRES, 449 UCBUniversity of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309-0449 Country USA
electronic Mail Address nsidc@nsidc.org
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URL: http://nsidc.org
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Metadata hierarchy level name:  Northern Circumpolar Soils Map
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Metadata standard for this record:  ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information 2009 Metadata
standard version:  ISO 19115-2:2009
Metadata record identifier:  Northern Circumpolar Soils Map, Version 1

Metadata record format is ISO19139-2 XML (MI_Metadata)