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1993 Review of the World Center-A for Meteorology and the National Climatic Data Center (1994) / Chapter Skim
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Pages 15-20

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From page 15...
... Recommendations As a result of its deliberations based on the input it has received, the pane} offers the following recommendations to guide the NCDC in developing priorities to achieve their goals: Recommer~ion 1: Higher priority should be given to recalibrating retrospective Assets that are critical to global change research Climate quality records are not simply aggregations of operational weather data. For purposes of studying climate, high standards of data
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From page 16...
... At the very least, one should be able to prepare climate datasets from the past 30 40 years where the uncertainties that remain from uncorrected problems are estimated. Moreover, regardless of our ability to retrieve past data, it is important to establish practices for acquiring future operational weather data that are consistent with the needs of climate studies so as to assure future quality.
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From page 17...
... As a wide variety of publicly funded weather and climate databases become more available through user-friendly interfaces, the needs of a client may be served by access to either local or remote computers, at national, regional, or state data centers. The User Services Branch might benefit by utilizing such remote connections and by working with the remote managers to ensure that the remote systems will meet their needs.
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From page 18...
... This will also help it to generate resources. Increased scientific expertise would enable the NCDC to optimize archival strategies, to anticipate user needs, to recogn~ze problems in datasets earlier, and to exploit the scientific information contained in He data more fully.
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From page 19...
... may be able to provide guidance about such publicity, in addition to helping set priorities for datasets to be included in the series, as noted above. Finally, the NCDC ought to exchange insights and expertise in producing CD-ROMs wish the other national data centers to maximize efficiencies in this process.
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From page 20...
... Modern storage and retrieval technology allows rapid inventory, access, and transfer of large volumes of useful data. From the panel's brief introduction to the NCDC's capabilities, it is apparent that the center has not kept up with available technology (e.g., the networking and data storage revolution)
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