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National Oceanographic Data Center

http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/

Provider: NOAA


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The National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) is one of the national environmental data centers operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The NODC serves to acquire, process, preserve, and disseminate oceanographic data. Its primary mission is to ensure that global oceanographic data collected at great cost is maintained in a permanent archive that is easily accessible to the world science community and to other users.The ocean data found at this website will answer questions about climate change, ocean phenomena, and management of coastal and marine resources, marine transportation, and natural disasters.This website contains a vast array of informational features. Some of the items sure to popular with students are beach temperatures, coastal buoy data, the photo collection, and ocean data types. There is information about climate change, natural hazards, coastal reefs, and much more.You will also find a World Ocean Atlas with data about each ocean including: temperature, salinity, oxygen (dissolved oxygen, apparent oxygen utilization,and percent oxygen saturation), dissolved inorganic nutrients (phosphate, nitrate, and silicate), chlorophyll at standard depth levels, and plankton biomass samples.