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WDC
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1958
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Worldwide
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English, French
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The
World Data Centre (WDC) system was created to archive and distribute data
collected from the observational programmes of the 1957-1958 International
Geophysical Year by the International Council of Science (ICSU). The WDCs were
funded and maintained by their host countries on behalf of the international science
community.
Originally
established in the United States, Europe, Soviet Union, and Japan, the WDC
system expanded to other countries and to new scientific disciplines. The WDC
system included up to 52 Centres in 12 countries. All data held in WDCs were
available for the cost of copying and sending the requested information.
At
the end of 2008, following the ICSU General Assembly in Maputo (Mozambique),
the World Data Centres were reformed and a new ICSU World Data System (WDS)
established in 2009 building on the 50-year legacy of the ICSU World Data
Centre system (WDC) and the ICSU Federation of Astronomical and Geophysical
data-analysis Services.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Data_Center
About
Introduction
About
The World Data System (WDS) is an Interdisciplinary Body of
the International Council for Science (ICSU) created by its 29th General
Assembly in Maputo, Mozambique in 2008.
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World Data Center System
Data
constitute the raw material of scientific understanding. The World Data Center system works to guarantee access
to solar, geophysical and related environmental data. It serves the whole
scientific community by assembling, scrutinizing, organizing and disseminating
data and information.
About the
WDC System
List of
Current WDCs
Contact a
WDC
Search for
WDC Data
WDC System
Guide
WDC Panel
Reports
Revised 01
2006
World Data
Center System
Web site maintained by:
NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center
325 Broadway, Code E/GC
Boulder, CO 80305-3328 USA
This Web site complies with the DOC/NOAA/NESDIS
Web policy.
For more information on the Boulder Web Site
for the World Data Center System, contact: Susan.McLean@noaa.gov, NOAA/NGDC Mail
Code E/GC1, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO USA 80305. fax 303-497-6478.
LATEST NEWS
ON THE NEW WORLD DATA SYSTEM
Please note
that, as of the end of 2008 following the ICSU General Assembly in Maputo, Mozambique,
the Panel on World Data Centers no longer exists and that the World Data
Centers will be incorporated into the new ICSU World Data System (WDS) in 2009.
A similar procedure will involve members of the Federation of Astronomical and
Geophysical data-analysis Services (FAGS) grouping of ICSU. In addition, it is
envisaged that additional (i.e. non-FAGS and non-WDC) organizations will be
encouraged to join the new WDS. When the WDS has its own web site, this WDC web
site will be discontinued. At the time of writing, a Transition Team composed
of former WDC Panel and FAGS Council members is discussing how best to organize
the transition arrangements to the new WDS without interruptions in the
services provided by existing organizations.
The World Data
Center System
The World
Data Center (WDC) system was created to archive and distribute data collected
from the observational programs of the 1957-1958 International Geophysical
Year. Originally established in the United States,
Europe, Russia, and Japan, the WDC
system has since expanded to other countries and to new scientific disciplines.
The WDC system now includes 52 Centers in 12 countries. Its holdings include a
wide range of solar, geophysical, environmental, and human dimensions data.
These data cover timescales ranging from seconds to millennia and they provide
baseline information for research in many ICSU disciplines, especially for
monitoring changes in the geosphere and biosphere—gradual or sudden, foreseen
or unexpected, natural or man-made.
WDCs are
funded and maintained by their host countries on behalf of the international
science community. They accept data from national and international scientific
or monitoring programs as resources permit. All data held in WDCs are available
for no more than the cost of copying and sending the requested information.
Now
Available:
The WDC
Reports section was updated in January 2006, now providing access to WDC Panel
Agenda and Minutes, as well as the report from the WDC Modernization Task Team,
Annual Reports for 2002, and the WDC Constitution.
URL: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/wdc/
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about this site: ngdc.wdca@noaa.gov
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last
update: Tuesday, 06-Sep-2011 03:31:19 BST
About the World Data Center System
URL: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/wdc/about.shtml
World Data Center System Roster
Updated December 2003
(...)EXCERPT(...)
Geology
Prof. WANG Anjian, Director
Mr. Dai Aide, Vice Director
Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences
Ministry of Geology and Minerology
26 Baiwanzhuang
Road
Beijing, 100037
CHINA
Human
Interactions in the Environment
Dr. Robert S. Chen, Director
CIESIN/Columbia University
P.O. Box 1000
61 Rt 9W
Palisades, NY 10964
USA
Land Cover
Data
Mr. Christopher A. Barnes, Director
U.S. Geological Survey, EROS Data
Center
47914 252nd Street
Sioux Falls, SD
57198
USA
Marine
Environmental Sciences
Prof. Dr. Gerold Wefer, Co-Director
Center for Marine Environmental Sciences
(MARUM)
Prof. Wolfgang Hiller, Co-Director
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine
Research
Klagenfurter Str.
D-28359 Bremen
GERMANY
Marine
Geology and Geophysics
Ms. Susan McLean, Director
NOAA Code E/GC
325 Broadway
Boulder, CO
80303-3328
USA
Valeri S. Shcherbakov, Director
Glav NIVC MNR RF
32A, Marshal
Tukhachevski Street
Moscow, 123585
RUSSIA
Meteorology
Mr. Howard Diamond, Director
National Climatic Data Center
151 Patton Avenue
Asheville, NC
28801-5001
USA
Prof. SHI Peiling, Director
Wang Guofu, Vice Director
National Meteorological Information Center
46 Zhongguanchun
Nandajie Road
Beijing, 100081
CHINA
Dr. Marsel Z. Shaimardonov, Director
All-Russian Research Institute of
Hydrometeorological Information
6 Korolev Str
Obninsk
Kaluga Reg., 249020
RUSSIA
Nuclear
Radiation
Mr. Hideyuki Sasaki, Director
Atmospheric Environment Division
Japan Meteorological Agency
1-3-4 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo, 100-8122
JAPAN
Oceanography
Dr. Vyacheslav I. Smirnov, Director
All-Russian Research Institute of
Hydrometeorological Information
6 Korolev Str
Obninsk
Kaluga Reg., 249020
RUSSIA
Mr. Sydney Levitus, Director
NOAA/NODC, E/OC5
1315 East-West
Highway
Silver Spring, MD
20910-3282
USA
Prof. Lin Shaohua, Director
National Marine Data & Information Service
State Oceanic Administration
93 Liu Wei Road, Hedong District
Tianjin, 300171
CHINA
Remotely
Sensed Data
Mr. Lyndon Oleson , Director
U.S. Geological Survey
EROS Data
Center
Sioux Falls, SD 57198
USA
Dr. Michael Bittner, Director
DLR-DFD
Oberpfaffenhofen
D-82234 Wessling
GERMANY
Rockets and
Satellites
Dr. Alex M. Sterin, Director
All-Russian Research Institute of
Hydrometeorological Information
6 Korolev Str
Obninsk
Kaluga Reg., 249020
RUSSIA
Dr. Edwin J. Grayzeck, Director
NSSDC Code 633
NASA Goddard
Space Flight
Center
Greenbelt, MD
20771
USA
Dr. Iku Shinohara, Director
Institute of Space & Astronautical Science
3-1-1 Yoshinodai
Sagamihara
Kanagawa, 229-8510
JAPAN
Rotation of
the Earth
Dr. Nikolai P. Kovalev, Director
All-Russian Research Institute of
Hydrometeorological Information
World Data
Center (RIHMI-WDC)
6 Korolev Str
Obninsk, Kaluga
Reg., 249020
RUSSIA
Ms. Merri Sue Carter, Director
U.S. Naval Observatory
3450 Mass Ave., NW
Washington, DC
20392-5100
USA
Seismology
Dr.
Stuart Sipkin
U.S.
Geological Survey
Denver
Federal Center MS 967
P.O.
Box 25046
Denver,
CO 80225-0046
USA
Dr.
LIU Refeng, Director
China
Earthquake Networks Center
No.
63, Fuxing Avenue
Beijing,
100036
CHINA
Solid Earth Geophysics
Prof.
TANG Keyun, Director
Institute
of Geology and Geophysics
Chinese
Academy of Sciences
P.O.
Box 9825
19
Beitucheng West Road, Chaoyang District
Beijing,
100029
CHINA
Ms.
Susan McLean, Director
NOAA/NGDC
E/GC1
325
Broadway
Boulder,
CO 80305-3328
USA
Dr.
Natalia A. Sergeyeva, Director
Molodezhnaya
3
Moscow,
117296
RUSSIA
Space Science
Prof. ZOU Ziming, Director
Chinese Academy of Sciences
P.O. Box 8701
Beijing, 100080
CHINA
WDC COORDINATION OFFICES
Dr. Anne M. Linn, Director
WDC Coordination Office, USA
National Research Council, KC-670
500 Fifth
Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
USA
Tel: +1 202 334 2744
Fax: +1 202 334 1377
E-mail: alinn@nas.edu
Prof. Yuri Tyupkin, Director
WDC Coordination Office, Russia
National Geophysical committee
Molodeznaya, 3
117296 Moscow
Russia
Tel: +7 095 930 5629
Fax: + 7 095 930 5509
E-mail: tyupkin@wdcb.ru
Prof. CHEN Panqin, Director
Dr. FENG Renguo
WDC Coordination Office, China
Bureau of Science and Technology for Resources
and Environment
and Environment
Chinese Academy of Sciences
52 Sanlihe Road
Beijing, 100864
CHINA
Tel: +86 10 685 97 538
Fax: +86 10 685 97 583
URL: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/wdc/list.shtml
Contacts for the World Data Centers
China
There are 9 World Data Centers located in China.Europe
There are 12 World Data Centers located in Europe.Asia-Pacific
There are 10 World Data Centers located in Australia, India, and Japan.Russia
There are 7 World Data Centers located in Russia.USA
There are 15 World Data Centers located in the USA.
URL:
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/wdc/contact.shtml
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