WDC 2
WDC 2 : World Data Center. The WDC system was created to archive and distribute data collected from the observational programmes of the 1957- 1958 International Geophysical Year. Originally established in the United States, Europe, Russia,and Japan, the WDC system has since expanded to other countries and to new scientific disciplines. The WDC system now includes 52 Centres in 12 countries. NGDC is co-located with the World Data Center for Geophysics and Ma rine Geolog y whi ch combine s the responsibilities of the former WDC-Marine Geology and Geophysics and WDC-Solid Earth Geophysics into a single new data center that manages global geophysical, sea floor, and natural hazards data. These data cover time scales ranging from seconds to millennia and they provide baseline information for research in many disciplines. (http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/wdc/wdcmain.html)
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