A number of data sets have been acquired and developed in the preliminary stages of this project.

Meteorological Data
Climate Surface Data
GTOPO 30 Data
Agricultural Data
Administrative Boundaries Data
Population Data
International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) Data

This data has been complied into a number of relational databases using Microsoft Access. These databases contain a range of forms and queries designed to identify meteorological patterns and events.

The station data has been turned into a shape file which is linked to the database. This allows for mapping of the meteorological data using Arc View GIS and will allow for comparisons between climate data and other data sets. ANUSPLIN 4.1 is being used to generate climate surfaces for the data.

The meteorological data from CDIAC was Contributed by V. N. Razuvaev, E. B. Apasova, R. A. Martuganov, All-Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information-World Data Centre,  Obninsk, Russia, and prepared by Prepared by  D. P. Kaiser, Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Climate Surfaces:
We are currently in the process of creating climate surfaces using our Meteorological database and GTOPO 30 elevation data using ANUSPLIN 4.1.

Population:
The following data is sourced from a dataset concerning infectious diseases in Russia over the period from 1929 to 1937.

International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) Data:
This data  was downloaded from the IIASA website, which contains Russian socio-economic, natural conditions and land endowment data. For any descriptions, metadata data or samples, please visit the IIASA website here.

Please feel free to contact any of us with any queries about data sets of if you have any data that may be relevant to the project.
All vector data can be converted into ESRI Shapefile format.