Please note that, as of the end of 2008 following the ICSU General Assembly in Maputo, Mozambique, the Panel on World Data Centers no longer exists and that the World Data Centers will be incorporated into the new ICSU World Data System (WDS) in 2009. A similar procedure will involve members of the Federation of Astronomical and Geophysical data-analysis Services (FAGS) grouping of ICSU. In addition, it is envisaged that additional (i.e. non-FAGS and non-WDC) organizations will be encouraged to join the new WDS. When the WDS has its own web site, this WDC web site will be discontinued. At the time of writing, a Transition Team composed of former WDC Panel and FAGS Council members is discussing how best to organize the transition arrangements to the new WDS without interruptions in the services provided by existing organizations.

Contacts for the World Data Centers

China

There are 9 World Data Centers located in China.

WDC Astronomy, Beijing
WDC Geology, Beijing
WDC Geophysics, Beijing
WDC Glaciology and Geocryology, Lanzhou
WDC Meteorology, Beijing
WDC Oceanography, Tianjin
WDC Renewable Resources and Environment, Beijing
WDC Seismology, Beijing
WDC Space Sciences, Beijing

Europe

There are 12 World Data Centers located in Europe.

WDC Climate, Hamburg
WDC Earth Tides, Brussels
WDC Geomagnetism, Copenhagen
WDC Geomagnetism, Edinburgh
WDC Glaciology, Cambridge
WDC Marine Environmental Sciences, Bremen
WDC for Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, Oberpfaffenhofen
WDC Soils, Wageningen
WDC Solar Activity, Meudon
WDC Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Didcot
WDC Sunspot Index, Brussels

Asia-Pacific

There are 10 World Data Centers located in Australia, India, and Japan.

WDC Airglow, Tokyo
WDC Aurora, Tokyo
WDC Cosmic Rays, Mito
WDC Geomagnetism, Kyoto
WDC Geomagnetism, Mumbai
WDC Ionosphere, Tokyo
WDC Nuclear Radiation, Tokyo
WDC Solar Radio Emissions, Nagano
WDC Solar-Terrestrial Science, Sydney
WDC Space Science Satellites, Sagamihara

Russia

There are 7 World Data Centers located in Russia.

WDC Marine Geology and Geophysics, Moscow
WDC Meteorology, Obninsk
WDC Oceanography, Obninsk
WDC Rockets and Satellites, Obninsk
WDC Rotation of the Earth, Obninsk
WDC Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Moscow
WDC Solid Earth Physics, Moscow

USA

There are 15 World Data Centers located in the USA.

WDC Atmospheric Trace Gases, Oak Ridge
WDC Biodiversity and Ecology, Denver
WDC Glaciology, Boulder
WDC Human Interactions in the Environment, Palisades
WDC Land Cover Data, Sioux Falls
WDC Geophysics and Marine Geology, Boulder
WDC Meteorology, Asheville
WDC Oceanography, Silver Spring
WDC Paleoclimatology, Boulder
WDC Remotely Sensed Land Data, Sioux Falls
WDC Rotation of the Earth, Washington
WDC Satellite Information, Greenbelt
WDC Seismology, Denver
WDC Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Boulder
WDC Solid Earth Geophysics, Boulder

URL: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/wdc/contact.shtml