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The Ocean
Climate Laboratory (OCL) is a division of the National Oceanographic Data
Center (NODC). The primary objectives of the OCL are to:
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improve the quality
of the NODC's oceanographic data archives by using the data to perform
scientific analyses
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develop improved ocean
climatologies for annual, seasonal, and monthly compositing periods
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investigate interannual-to-decadal
ocean climate variability using historical oceanographic data
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build scientifically,
quality-controlled global oceanographic databases
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facilitate international
exchange of oceanographic data.
The OCL includes the International Data Exchange Group that conducts programs
related to international affairs and oceanographic data exchange and also
supports World Data Center for Oceanography, Silver Spring (WDC). Operated under the auspices
of the U.S. Academy of Sciences, WDC is
one of the U.S. discipline subcenters within the World Data Center system.
There are two other World Data Centers for Oceanography, World Data Center-B
for Oceanography, Obninsk, Russia and World Data Center- D, Oceanography,
Tianjin, People's Republic of China.
The OCL directs the international Global Oceanographic Data Archaeology
and Rescue (GODAR) Project. Initiated by the NODC and WDC,
this project was subsequently endorsed by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic
Commission. The GODAR Project has resulted in an increase of over six million
historical ocean temperature profiles, 140,000 chlorophyll profiles, 1,400.000
plankton observations, as well as many other data.
All data are made available internationally without restriction consistent
with the data policy of World Data Centers.
Maintained by Olga Baranova, Ocean
Climate Laboratory (Olga.Baranova@noaa.gov)
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