[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 3]
[Revised as of January 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR950.4]

[Page 290]
 
                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
CHAPTER IX--NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 
                               OF COMMERCE
 
PART 950_ENVIRONMENTAL DATA AND INFORMATION--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 950.4  National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC).

    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 bath[chyph]ytheremograph 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.