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1. Introduction
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... Over longer periods of time geophysical data are necessary for detecting and monitoring environmental trends. For example, changes in the Earth's magnetic field over decades to centuries contain a wealth of information on the dynamics of the Earth's deep interior; changes in the composition of seafloor sediments over hundreds of thousands to millions of years are used to reconstruct past climates and to help elucidate the cause and variability of global ~ Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology, 1995, National Space Weather Program: Strategic Plan, FCM-P30-1995, Washington, D.C., .
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... Global Change Research Program: Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy (DOE) , and Health and Human Services; Environmental Protection Agency; National Aeronautics and Space Administration; NOAA; National Science Foundation; Smithsonian Institution; and the U.S.
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... Single copy of data; all the data centers also hold backup copies, which doubles the data volumes shown, to comply with National Archives and Records Administration standards. c Figures exclude the National Coastal Data Development Center and the NOAA library, which are funded through NODC.
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... 7 The list of world data centers, including the three operated by NGDC World Data Center for Marine Geology and Geophysics, World Data Center for Solar Terrestrial Physics, and World Data Center for Solid Earth Geophysics appears at . 8 Memorandum from Gregory Withee, assistant administrator, satellite and information services, to Michael Loughridge, director, NGDC, April 17, 2002.
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... Aeromagnetic data were returned to the USGS in 1999 when the agency obtained resources to reanalyze and disseminate them.l° Despite these changes NGDC remains organized along historical lines, with three scientific divisions solid earth geophysics, marine geology and geophysics, and solar-terrestrial physics and an information services division (Figure 1.1~. ORGANIZATION OF THE REPORT This report considers the purpose, function, and operation of NGDC and the opportunities and challenges it has within NOAA to provide comprehensive access to and stewardship of a wide range of geophysical data.
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