Review of NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center

Review of NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2003-09-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0309089115

The report reviews the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) and assesses how well the center is managing its holdings, serving its users, and supporting NOAA's mission. It concludes that NGDC is the natural place within NOAA and the nation for stewardship and dissemination of data related to the solid Earth and space environment. These subject areas are also relevant to NOAA's new priority on integrated environmental approaches. For NGDC to fulfill its potential, however, it must first rearticulate its mission and overcome some solvable problems, including obtaining effective feedback from its users and organizing the center to eliminate parallel activities and reduce scientific isolation among the divisions.

National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Provides information on the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration which manages environmental data in the fields of solar-terrestrial physics, solid earth geophysics, marine geology and geophysics, paleoclimatology, and glaciology. Notes that in each of these fields, it also operates a World Data Center. Provides links to each of these data centers and provides information on how to download the information from them.

Global Ecosystems Database, Version 1.0 (on CD-ROM)

Global Ecosystems Database, Version 1.0 (on CD-ROM)
Author: John J. Kineman
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Total Pages: 140
Release: 1992
Genre: Climatic changes
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"The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Environmental Research Laboratory - Corvallis, Oregon (ERL-C), established an Interagency Agreement with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) in September 1990. This agreement began a five year cooperative effort to develop a geographic database for modeling terrestrial climatebiosphere interactions in support of EPA's Global Climate Research Program. Although performing specific tasks under contract to the US EPA, NGDC independently operates a Global Change Database Program (GCDP) as part of its NOAA mission Considerable synergism therefore exists between the tasks performed for the JPA under the "Global Ecosystems Database Project, '' and other activities supporting NOAA Climate and Global Change Program"--Preface