PANGAEA (Cryosphere)

PANGAEA (Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science): The information system PANGAEA is operated as an Open Access library aimed at archiving, publishing and distributing georeferenced data from earth system research. PANGAEA guarantees long-term availability (greater than 10 years) of its content. PANGAEA is open to any project, institution, or individual scientist to use or to archive and publish data. PANGAEA focuses on georeferenced observational data, experimental data, and models/simulations. Citability, comprehensive metadata descriptions, interoperability of data and metadata, a high degree of structural and semantic harmonization of the data inventory as well as the commitment of the hosting institutions ensures FAIRness of archived data.