Maintained by: The Royal Society and the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.

Summary of Data Held: Published data related to glaciers, sea ice, ice sheets, snow and ice engineering, avalanches, glaciohydrology, frozen ground engineering, permafrost, frost action on rocks and soil, ice ages, physics and chemistry of ice, remote sensing methods and techniques, astronomical and biological aspects of glaciology.

User Services: Open to visitors in normal working hours. Advance notice recommended. Literature searches on any glaciological topic, postal and telephone inquiry service, public information on glaciological topics. Library facilities.

Data Products, Publications, Catalogs: Online catalog available. The WWW Home Page incorporates a bibliographic database called ICE AND SNOW which uses the WWW search engine Muscat and contains 22,000 references on glaciology, including covertocover abstracts of key journals and conference proceedings. The WDC contributes to the Arctic and Antarctic CD-ROM and COLD database on Orbit-Questel.