NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information - World Data Service for Oceanography

Name of repository

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information - World Data Service for Oceanography

Additional name(s)

• formerly: WDC - A
• WDS for Oceanography
• formerly: WDC - Oceanography, Silver Spring
• formerly: World Data Center for Oceanography, Silver Spring
• World Data Service for Oceanography

Repository URL

https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/index.html

Subject(s)

• Natural Sciences
• Geosciences
• Atmospheric Science, Oceanography and Climate Research
• Oceanography

Description

<<<!!!<<< The demand for high-value environmental data and information has dramatically increased in recent years. To improve our ability to meet that demand, NOAA’s former three data centers—the National Climatic Data Center, the National Geophysical Data Center, and the National Oceanographic Data Center, which includes the National Coastal Data Development Center—have merged into the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). >>>!!!>>> NCEI is responsible for hosting and providing access to one of the most significant archives on Earth, with comprehensive oceanic, atmospheric, and geophysical data. From the depths of the ocean to the surface of the sun and from million-year-old sediment records to near real-time satellite images, NCEI is the Nation's leading authority for environmental information. The National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), which hosts the World Data Service for Oceanography is a national environmental data center operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce. NCEI are responsible for hosting and providing access to one of the most significant archives on earth, with comprehensive oceanic, atmospheric, and geophysical data. The primary mission of the World Data Service for Oceanography is to ensure that global oceanographic datasets collected at great cost are maintained in a permanent archive that is easily and openly accessible to the world science community and to other users.

Contact(s)

• administrative: https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/about/contact.html
• administrative: NCEI.info@noaa.gov

Keyword(s)

• earth science
• global environmental data
• ocean data
• ocean temperatures
• oceanographic data
• sea surface
• water

Repository type(s)

• disciplinary
• institutional

Mission statement for designated community

https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/about/index.html

Research data repository language(s)

• English

Data and/or service provider

• dataProvider