NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information - formerly: National Oceanographic Data Center

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) https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100011801. The National Oceanographic Data Center includes the National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC) and the NOAA Central Library, which 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.

近年来，对高价值环境数据和信息的需求急剧增长。为提升满足这一需求的能力，美国国家海洋和大气管理局（NOAA）的前三大数据中心——国家气候数据中心、国家地球物理数据中心以及国家海洋数据中心（包括国家海岸数据发展中心）——已合并为国家级环境信息中心（NCEI）https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100011801。国家海洋数据中心囊括了国家海岸数据发展中心（NCDDC）以及NOAA中央图书馆，这些机构相互融合，提供全球最全面海洋环境数据和信息的访问渠道。NODC负责维护和更新国家级海洋档案，该档案收集了来自国内外活动的环境数据，并基于这些数据生产出监测全球环境变化的成果和研究成果。这些数据包括来自现场海洋观测、海洋卫星遥感以及海洋模型模拟的物理、生物和化学测量值。