Feature
NCDC & You........... Page 1
Editor’s
Note
Welcome!................. Page 2
Valley Breeze
How WE Work Together Page 2
SKYWARN
NWS Road Show..... Page 3
What’s
in the BOX?
What We Do............ Page 4
NERFC
River Forecast Center Page 5
CPM’s
Corner
Meet Bill................... Page 6
CPO’s
Corner
Your Corner.............. Page 6
Puzzle Page
B-91.......................... Page 7
ICONS
What Do They Mean? Page 9
| Weather Eye is published for the
Community of Cooperative Program Observers that is serviced by the Taunton WFO: Editor,
Mike Carbone; Copy Editor, Donna Dumas; Icon Technical Guru, Tim Buckelew; Contributors,
David Vallee, Ed Capone |
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As you may already know, the National
Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in Asheville, NC is where all of your weather observations
become archived. It is where they become a permanent record of that part of the
nation’s climate that is uniquely your weather station. Your data is not the only
information the center collects. It collects and archives other weather data obtained from
the National Weather Service, military services, Federal Aviation Administration, and
Coast Guard as well. It also collects from numerous sources worldwide. NCDC has more than
150 years of material |
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Printed copies of the data are available, for a fee, upon request. In the mid 1990s
NCDC started up its own Internet Web site. With the equivalent of some 18 million pages of
new data added to the site each day, they are the largest Web site of climatological
weather data on the Web.
Stephen DelGreco, of NCDC, said the center has the largest collection of weather
information in the world, and they have published a guide explaining how to tap into its
archives. Their "Products & Services Guide" provides details
concerning NCDC’s computer online systems. The guide contains information about the
climatic center’s CD-ROMs, specialized products, digital datasets, and printed
publications. The guide also describes how certain weather and climate data can be
accessed through the Internet. All |
NCDC’s Internet address is:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov.
You can obtain a copy of the "Products & Services Guide" from
the Climate Services Branch of NCDC by calling (828) 271 - 4800; or by fax dial (828)
271 - 4876; or by e-mail to orders@ncdc.noaa.gov
You may also obtain a copy by writing to:
National Climatic Data Center 151 Patton Avenue, Room 120 Asheville, NC 28801-5001.
To view and/or download the guide online go to NCDC’s Web site (printed above), then
click on Most Popular Products, then click on Free, then click on Products
& Services Guide. |
cooperative weather stations whose data is published are
available onlline dating back to 1948. Older data and non-published data is
available on request.
NCDCs CD-ROM products include the Cooperative Station Data (1948-1997), International
Station Meteorology Climate Summary, National Climate Information Disc, U.S. Navy Marine
Climatic Atlas, Solar and Meteorological Surface Observational Network (SAMSON), Global
Daily Summary, and many others suitable for the weather hobbyist or the sophisticated
scientist. |
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