名称 略名 NCDC
英名 The National Climatic Data Center
和名 アメリカ気候データセンター
住所 : National Climatic Data Center, Federal Building, 151 Patton Avenue, Asheville NC 28801-5001
Tel : 704-271-4800
Fax : 704-271-4876
Email : webmaster@ncdc.noaa.gov
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/about/ncdccontacts.html
www : http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/
1. タイプ 米政府機関
2. 機関概要
NCDC produces numerous climate publications and responds to data requests from all over the world. NCDC operates the World Data Center-A, Meteorology which is collocated at NCDC. NCDC is part of the Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS).
3. 使命・目的
The mission is to manage the Nation's resource of global climatological in-situ and remotely sensed data and information to promote global environmental stewardship; to describe, monitor and assess the climate; and to support efforts to predict changes in the Earth's environment. This effort requires the acquisition, quality control, processing, summarization, dissemination, and preservation of a vast array of climatological data generated by the national and international meteorological services. NCDC's mission is global in nature and provides the U.S. climate representative to the World Meteorological Organization, the World Data Center System, and other international scientific programs. NCDC also operates the World Data Center-A for Meteorology.
