NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information - World Data Service for Oceanography

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). NCEI is responsible for hosting and providing access to one of the most significant archives on Earth, with comprehensive oceanic, atmospheric, and geophysical data. From the depths of the ocean to the surface of the sun and from million-year-old sediment records to near real-time satellite images, NCEI is the Nation's leading authority for environmental information. The National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), which hosts the World Data Service for Oceanography is a national environmental data center operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce. NCEI are responsible for hosting and providing access to one of the most significant archives on earth, with comprehensive oceanic, atmospheric, and geophysical data. The primary mission of the World Data Service for Oceanography is to ensure that global oceanographic datasets collected at great cost are maintained in a permanent archive that is easily and openly accessible to the world science community and to other users.

近年来，对高价值环境数据和信息的渴求呈现出显著增长的趋势。为提升满足这一需求的能效，美国国家海洋与大气管理局（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）——已合并为全国环境信息中心（NCEI）。NCEI 负责托管并提供访问地球上最为重要的档案之一，该档案包含全面的海洋、大气和地球物理数据。从海洋深处至太阳表面，从数百万年前的沉积记录到近乎实时的卫星图像，NCEI 均为我国环境信息领域的权威机构。作为世界海洋学数据服务的主办方，全国环境信息中心（NCEI）是美国商务部国家海洋与大气管理局（NOAA）运营的国家环境数据中心。NCEI 负责托管并提供访问地球上最为重要的档案之一，该档案包含全面的海洋、大气和地球物理数据。世界海洋学数据服务的主要使命是确保全球海洋学数据集，这些数据集的收集成本高昂，能够被永久保存在一个易于且公开可访问的档案中，以供全球科学界及其他用户使用。