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Table 4.1 Selected members of theWorld Data Center network that are directly related to research in climatology

World Data Centers Affiliation and location Data emphasis

Atmospheric trace
gases

Carbon Dioxide Information Center,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Data related to atmospheric trace gases
that affect and contribute to the
Earth's energy budget

Glaciology - USA National Snow and Ice Data Center,

Boulder, Colorado

Snow cover, snow pack, sea-ice extent,
sea-ice thickness, images and
pictures of historic glacial extent

Glaciology,
Geocryology - China

Lanzhou Institute of Glaciology and
Geocryology, Chinese Academy
of Sciences, Lanzhou, China

Glacial Atlas of China, snow cover,
glacial extent and variation,
periglacial data and hydrologic data

Glaciology - UK The Royal Society and the Scott

Polar Research Institute,
University of Cambridge

Data related to glaciers, periglacial
processes, satellite imagery, snow
and ice chemistry

Airglow - Japan National Astronomical Observatory,

Tokyo, Japan

Airglow data, solar radiation data

Meteorology - China Climate Data and Applications

Office, Beijing, China

Real-time synoptic data, historical
surface climate data,
dendrochronology data, glacial data,
and atmospheric chemistry data

Meteorology - Russia Federal Service of Russia for

Hydrometeorology and
Monitoring of the Environment,
Obninsk, Russia

Both surface observations and gridded
surface and upper air meteorology
data, marine ship observation data,
and aerology data

Meteorology - USA National Climate Data Center,

Ashville, North Carolina

Archives of data from many national
and international research projects
and experiments including data from
the IGY 1957-8 and International
Quiet Sun Year, 1964-5 among many
others. Synoptic surface and upper
air climate data Global Historic
Climate Data Network, Ozone Data for
the World since 1965

Paleo-climatology -
USA

National Geophysical Data Center
(NGDC), Boulder, Colorado

Dendrochronology data, ice-core data,
sea-floor sediment cores, coral data,
proxy data on climatic forcing,
including volcanic aerosol data, ice
volume, atmospheric composition,
etc. Numerical model simulation
experiments data, climate
reconstructions and maps

(From Simpson 2005 )