National Climatic Data Center
The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) of the United States , founded in 1951 , located in Asheville in North Carolina is the largest global center for data collection weather. The center has over 150 years of archived data and receives daily more than 224 gigabytes of new information. The NCDC data archive 99 percent of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), including more than 320 million paper records, 2.5 million microfiche , and more than x petabytes of digital data. The NCDC has pictures taken by weather satellites since 1960.
Data
The data come from many sources: observations of meteorological stations by terrestrial observers of the National Weather Service and automatic, remote sensing wind profilers recorders, solar radiation , radiosondes , satellites and weather radars ; observations of ships and planes , so that models and predictions by services forecasts.
The Center provides historical perspectives on climate which are vital to the study of climate change. It maintains data essential for the industry , the agriculture , the hydrology , the transport , the recreation.
Sources
- What is NCDC? , NOAA Satellite and Information Service
- The National Climatic Data Center 2001: Celebrating 50 years of excellence NCDC, 1951-2001.; National Climatic Data Center (U.S.); Asheville, NC: National Climatic Data Center, 2001. ( OCLC 52725631 )
- (In) This article is partially or entirely from the article in English entitled " National Climatic Data Center (see the list of authors )
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