[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 15, Volume 3]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 15CFR950.4]



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                  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 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.