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Proceedings of the 8th Annual |
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National Climatic Data Center John Hughes Asheville, NC Department of Commerce Organization Chart U.S. Department of CommerceNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Weather Service National Environmental Satellite, Date, and Information Service National Geophysical Data Center National Oceanographic Data Center National Climatic Data Center Mission Archive, Access & Describe Acquire / Ingest
National Partners
International Partners
Climate Data & Information Climate Description / Reference Data Bases / Access Scope of the Mission – National & Global "Supporting the development of the national economy in a global environment since the mid-1900’s." All disciplines of the national economic infrastructure Making the U.S. economically competitive
National Security Policy Sustainable development Applications of NCDC Data by Industry Group Consulting Meteorologist - Provide expert testimony in court Legal - Evidence in court cases Insurance Industry - Rate determination, claims settlement Individual - Use in recreation, retirement, entertainment, vacations Engineering - Provide guidance in the design and construction of facilities / infrastructure Business - Sales impact, site relocation, environmental impacts NOAA / Government - Research, investigations, legal, claims, risk management, policy guidance/support, etc. Research - Environmental issues, science studies, weather prediction, etc. Digital Data Archive NCDC’s digital holdings would fill 1,000,000 CD-ROMs
Non-Digital Data Archive Manuscript/Autograph 200 Million pages = 37,878 miles (1.5 times around the earth) 35mm & 16mm Film 125,129 rolls = 2,340 miles (Washington to Los Angeles) Microfiche 1.2 million pages = 114 miles (Washington to Philadelphia) Depository Library Program All Government agencies are required to participate under U.S. Code Title 44 - Public Printing and Documents Chapter 19 - Depository Library Program Section 1901. "Government Publication" means informational matter which is published as an individual document at Government expense, or as required by law Section 1902. Government Publications, except those determined by their issuing components to be required for official use only or for strictly administrative or operational purposes which have no public interest or educational value and publications classified for reasons of national security, shall be made available to depository libraries through the facilities of the Superintendent of Documents for public information NCDC furnishes copies of all serial publications
Also NCDC Data sets on CD-ROMs Copies distributed initially in paper form In the mid 80's some libraries accepted microfiche Climatological CD-ROMs Quantity of climatological data distributed On CD-ROMs (terabytes) NCDC CD-ROMs CLIVUE Coastal Marine Automated Network Station and Buoy Reports and Summaries Global Climate Normals 1961-1990 Global Daily Summary Global Historic Fields Version 1.0 Global Tropical and Extratropical Cyclone Climatic Atlas Version 2.0 Global Upper Air Climatic Atlas Hourly U.S. Weather Observations 1990-1995 International Surface Weather Observations International Station Meteorological Climate Summary Version 4.0 MM4 Meteorological Data NCDC Cooperative Station Data NOAA Weather Charts National Climatic Data Center Periodical Publications Polar Ice Probabilities of Temperature Extremes in the USA Version 1.0 Radiosonde Data of North America 1946-1996 Solar and Meteorological Surface Observational Network The Maury Collection, Global Ship Observations 1792-1910 Time Series of Global Monthly Vegetation Cover from NOAA/AVHRR 1985-1997 U.S. Divisional and Station Climatic Data and Normals Version 1.0 U.S. Navy Marine Climatic Atlas of the World Version 1.1 United States Snow Climatology Funding versus Data Depository Library Program No funding for this service. Copies of publications requested by nearly 600 depository libraries, the Government Printing Office, the NOAA Central Library and the Library of Congress. Last year's printing costs were nearly $31K. Last year's mail costs were nearly $30K. Starting with FY 1998, to lessen strain on our budget: |
