About Us

Data-Sharing Platform of Polar Science (hereinafter called “the Platform”), managed and operated by Chinese National

Arctic and Antarctic Data Center ( hereinafter called CN-NADC), is an information system providing for domestic and oversea

scientific researchers the polar science data-sharing services.

For promoting polar science research, saving the valuable data obtained in past years of polar research and improving

the efficiency of data use, the project of “Chinese Polar Science Database System” （G99-A-02a）was registered in 1999 as

the fundamental exclusive project of Ministry of Science and Technology and in year 2002 it was completed construction and

operated on web, starting to offer polar data-sharing services for researchers. In year 2004 “Chinese National Polar Science

Database System” joined “Data-Sharing Network of Earth System Science” and became part of national scientific data-sharing

platforms.

With years of successive support of departments in charge of polar research on data management and sharing policies, with

the active participation of polar research institutes of China and with its own efforts of continuing expansion and construction,

the Platform has become one of the most inclusive and most open data-sharing platform in China.

Currently, the platform boasts 517 observation datasets in areas such as oceanography, atmosphere science, biology,

geophysics,glaciology and various subject databases like polar maps, oceanography, meteorology and microorganism. It also

contains 5 GB on-line data, 2,000 GB off-line data, enquiry, using and accessing scientific data/information for scientific

researchers in China. Meanwhile, it also provides English version of polar research data for the oversea data users.

During “11th Five-Year-Plan Period, with the full implementation of IPY 2007-2008 China Programme, the Platform will

further enrich its data resources, improve data quality control, enhance data exchange with other polar research institutes,

integrate the polar data, construct a series of polar subject databases with its focus on various polar research areas and key

disciplines, develop database products, expand the coverage of polar data usage and increase its usage efficiency, thus make

its own contributions to promoting polar scientific research.