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will continue supporting summer research cruises after<br />

the IPY period. Also, image datasets of the Arctic and<br />

Antarctic regions were made using the data of PAL-<br />

SAR onboard the ALOS satellite. The satellite images<br />

of AMSR-E and PALSAR are available at the respective<br />

web sites. In particular, the data of the Arctic Sea-Ice<br />

monitor by AMSR-E cover the recent drastic changes of<br />

the Arctic sea-ice and now capture huge attention of<br />

general people and researchers. 5<br />

Conjugacy of the Ionospheric and Magnetospheric<br />

Penomena as seen from the both <strong>Polar</strong> Regions (IPY<br />

no. 63). Space and Atmospheric Sciences Group of<br />

NIPR extended observation network in Antarctica by<br />

deploying unmanned magnetometers and promoting<br />

collaborations with other Antarctic stations. This effort<br />

and direction will continue after IPY. The conjugacy<br />

of auroral phenomena using Syowa Station-Iceland<br />

conjugate pair stations has been studied. This study<br />

will be extended not only in the auroral zone, but also<br />

in the cusp and polar-cap region with the aid of the<br />

extended observation network.<br />

IPY data management<br />

Metadata related to Japanese IPY projects,<br />

together with other Japanese and international<br />

projects, have been compiled at the IPY Portal<br />

in the GCMD (Global Change Master Directory)<br />

(http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/KeywordSearch/Home.<br />

do?Portal=ipy&MetadataType=0) in NASA (National<br />

Aeronautics and Space Administration). In the Portal<br />

of GCMD, a total number of metadata descriptions<br />

(DIFs: Directory Interchange Format) is more than 90.<br />

In the Science Meta-Data Base at the National Institute<br />

of <strong>Polar</strong> Research, Japan (SMDB/NIPR), a total<br />

of 148 metadata sets were accumulated so far. The<br />

format of metadata is original one, but it includes the<br />

items listed in DIFs of AMD (Antarctic Master Directory).<br />

There are also links to the corresponding metadata<br />

in the AMD for each metadata of the SMDB/NIPR.<br />

Science Outreach and Communication<br />

Scientific symposia. The IPY kick-off symposium,<br />

“Asian Collaboration in IPY <strong>2007–2008</strong>”, was held on<br />

1 March 2007 at the SCJ, Tokyo with 117 participants<br />

from 14 countries (http://polaris.nipr.ac.jp/~ipy/usr/<br />

sympo/). The IPY closing Symposium, “Global Change<br />

and <strong>Polar</strong> Science,” to summarize first scientific results<br />

and make adequate orientation to the post-IPY generation<br />

was held on 1 March 2010 at the SCJ.<br />

Other symposia include:<br />

• 1st <strong>International</strong> Symposium on the Arctic Research<br />

(ISIRA-1: www.jamstec.go.jp/iorgc/sympo/isar1/<br />

index.html), organized jointly by the Japanese National<br />

Committee for IASC and the SCJ in November<br />

2008 at the National Museum of Emerging Science<br />

and Innovation (Miraikan), Tokyo and<br />

• The <strong>International</strong> Symposium, “Fifty <strong>Year</strong>s after IGY<br />

– Modern Information Technologies and Earth and<br />

Solar Sciences” (http://wdc2.kugi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/<br />

igy50), in November 2008 at the National Institute of<br />

Fig.5.3-12. JAXA’s<br />

Arctic Sea-ice Data<br />

Distribution System<br />

for IPY cruises using<br />

Near Real-Time<br />

AQUA/AMSR-E data.<br />

(Photo: Japanese IPY<br />

Committee)<br />

l e g a C I e s 567

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