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The National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) is an enterprise organization that provides scientific and public stewardship for national and international marine environmental and ecosystem data and information. The National Oceanographic Data Center, National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC) and NOAA Central Library, with its regional branch assets, are integrated to provide access to the world's most comprehensive sources of marine environmental data and information. NODC maintains and updates a national ocean archive with environmental data acquired from domestic and foreign activities and produces products and research from these data which help monitor global environmental changes. These data include physical, biological and chemical measurements derived from in situ oceanographic observations, satellite remote sensing of the oceans, and ocean model simulations. NODC manages and operates the World Data Center (WDC) for Oceanography, Silver Spring. Its personnel directly interact with Federal, state, academic, and industrial oceanographic activities, represent NOAA/NESDIS on various interagency domestic panels, committees and councils, and represent the United States in various international organizations, such as the International Oceanographic Data Exchange. The Data Center also represents NESDIS and NOAA to the general public, government agencies, private institutions, foreign governments, and the private sector on matters involving oceanographic data.
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The National
Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) manages the acquisition, ingest processing,
quality control and long-term preservation of oceanographic data. The
data are scanned for viruses, and cryptographic checksums are generated
and stored with the original data files so data integrity can be monitored
and verified over extended time periods and across generations of storage
technologies. A copy of the data is written to near-line mass storage
and a copy is written to removable media for off-site storage.The NODC
archive holdings include all the data acquired in its original form,
as well as project and product files of data extractions. (...more
about what happens to data submitted to NODC).
Every
data acquisition is assigned a unique identification number called an
accession number, to be used as a lifetime reference to that data. Each
unique data set will contain a metadata description to aid in search
and discovery processes. A copy of all original NODC digital data holdings
is maintained in an online storage system for unattended access by our
users.
Direct access to the NODC archive of originators' data can be obtained
by using the NODC Ocean Archive System.
You
can also submit your oceanographic
data files to NODC's archives, or find ocean data that you already submitted.
The National
Oceanographic Data Center holds global physical, chemical, and biological
oceanographic data sets that are being used by researchers world-wide.
Specifically NODC's Ocean Climate Laboratory is
investigating interannual-to-decadal ocean climate variability using
historical oceanographic data, and building scientifically, quality-controlled
global oceanographic databases in their products known as the World
Ocean Atlas and World Ocean Database.
For
a complete list of data and products visit NODC's Access
Data page.
NODC has
several ocean-data Web applications that can be accessed through the
Internet. Some of these observing systems contain near-realtime
data, while others are long-term archives for a certain project. Here
is a list of NODC's observing systems:
- Global Argo Data Repository - latest data
- Coastal Buoy Data
- Coastal Water Temperature Guide (CWTG)
- Global Temperature-Salinity Profile
Program (GTSPP)
- Joint Archive
for Sea Level (JASL)*
- Joint Archive for Shipboard ADCP (JASADCP)*- [NODC's ADCP page]
- Ocean Time Series Data Base (TSDB)
- Satellite Oceanography
The National Coastal Data Development Center (a division of NODC) also has several ocean and coastal observational systems. You may also want to visit our Environmental Themes page to see how NODC relates to these important topics.
For a complete list of data and products, visit NODC's Access
Data page.
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