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Our parent organization, the
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) celebrated
200 years of science, service and stewardship in 2007. While NOAA was
officially recognized in 1970, our beginnings can actually be traced
back to 1807,
when America's oldest scientific agency, The Survey of the Coast, was
established by President Thomas Jefferson.
Two hundred years later, NOAA continues to gather
data from the atmosphere, oceans, sun and space and using these data
sets
to support
both research and services. NOAA's National Climate Data Center (NCDC)
is the world's largest active archive of weather data. NCDC archives
weather and climate date, produces climate publications, and supports
data requests from all over the world.
NOAA
has a comprehensive web site dedicated to their 200th Anniversary.
For several topics, including atmospheric research, climate data, and
environmental satellites, the web site has features describing their
foundations, transformations and visions. These features include:
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From the roots of what has now become NOAA, to the recent
period of great technological change, and a look toward the future, this
web site covers a wide range of historical topics to what we may expect
over the next 30 years.
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