名称 略名 NGDC
英名 The National Geophysical Data Center
和名 アメリカ地球物理データセンター
住所 : National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA, Mail Code E/GC, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80303-3328
Tel : 303 497-6826
Fax : 303 497-6513
Email : info@ngdc.noaa.gov
www : http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/
1. タイプ 米政府機関
2. 機関概要
NGDC manages environmental data in the fields of marine geology and geophysics, paleoclimatology, solar-terrestrial physics, solid earth geophysics, and glaciology (snow and ice). In each of these fields NGDC also operates a World Data Center (WDC-A) discipline center. While not all of their data holdings are available through NGDC's Geophysical On-Line Data (GOLD), new data, meta-data, and information are continually being added. Data and inventories in many disciplines are fully searchable and selected listings, data, and images can be downloaded.
NGDC is a part of the U.S. Department of Commerce (USDOC), NOAA and NESDIS.
3. 使命・目的
NGDC's mission is data management in the broadest sense. They play an integral role in the nation's research into the environment, and at the same time provide public domain data to a wide group of user.
The Center works closely with contributors of scientific data to prepare documented, reliable data sets. It welcomes cooperative projects with other government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and universities, and encourage data exchange. It also interacts with many foreign scientists, mainly through the World Data Center system operated by the International Council of Scientific Unions. Through this international exchange, scientists around the world have access to global databases. Ongoing research and development efforts are yielding new breakthroughs in long-range climate forecasting.
