15 CFR §950.4
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The National Oceanographic Data Center acquires, processes, archives, analyzes, and disseminates oceanographic data; develops analytical and descriptive products to meet user requirements; and provides facilities for the World Data Center-A (Oceanography). It was the first NODC established and houses the world's largest usuable collection of marine data.
- (a)Oceanographic data available from NODC include:
- (1)Mechanical and expendable bathytheremograph data in analog and digital form.
- (2)Oceanographic station data for surface and serial depths, giving values of temperature, salinity, oxygen, inorganic phosphate, total phosphorus, nitrite-nitrogen, nitrate-nitrogen, silicate-silicon, and pH.
- (3)Continuously recorded salinity-temperature-depth data in digital form.
- (4)Surface current information obtained by using drift bottle or calculated from ship set and drift.
- (5)Biological data, giving values of plankton standing crop, chlorophyll concentrations, and rates of primary productivity.
- (6)Other marine environmental data obtained by diverse techniques, e.g., instrumented buoy data, and current meter data.
- (b)Queries should be addressed to: National Oceanographic Data Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington, DC 20235, tel. 202-634-7500.