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Responsibilities of the NCDC
Pages 4-5

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... is stated as follows: "The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) is responsible for data management activities in support of scientific and technical programs involving remotely sensed and in situ retrospective meteorological data and climatological information.
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... Because of the varying levels of sophistication among its customers, We NCDC receives requests and disseminates data on many media. Data center customers include lawyers, engineers, teachers, recreationists, and me business community, and their requests account for nearly threequarters of the in situ data sales.
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