Welcome to the Polar Data Catalogue

The Polar Data Catalogue is a database of metadata and data that describes, indexes and provides access to diverse data sets generated by Arctic and Antarctic researchers. The records follow Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) standard format to provide metadata exchange with other data centres. The records cover a wide range of disciplines from natural sciences and policy, to health and social sciences. This geospatial search tool is available to the public and researchers alike and allows searching data using a mapping interface or other parameters.

Please click on the map below to start searching for datasets or sign in to contribute metadata to the Polar Data Catalogue.

Announcements

October 2011

The Polar Data Catalogue is on Twitter! Follow "polardata" for announcements of new metadata and datasets in the PDC.



April 2011

The new International Polar Year data upload capability is operational! Please contact your IPY Data Assembly Centre Network coordinator for assistance in uploading your IPY datasets.



Maintenance Notice


The website may not be available during the daily maintenance window of 6pm to 8pm EST.

Warning: If the server is restarted during this time and you are making changes to metadata, the changes will be lost.