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About the National Snow and Ice Data Center
OUR MISSION
"NSIDC/WDC will make fundamental
contributions to cryospheric science and will excel in managing data
and disseminating information
in order to advance understanding of the Earth system."
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NSIDC is part of the University of Colorado Cooperative Institute for Research
in Environmental Sciences, and is affiliated with the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration National Geophysical Data Center through a cooperative
agreement. NSIDC serves as one of eight Distributed Active Archive Centers
funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to archive and
distribute data from NASA's past and current satellites and field measurement
programs. NSIDC also supports the National Science Foundation through the Arctic
System Science Data Coordination Center and the Antarctic Glaciological Data
Center.
Established by NOAA as a national information and referral center in support of polar and cryospheric research, NSIDC archives and distributes digital and analog snow and ice data. We also maintain information about snow cover, avalanches, glaciers, ice sheets, freshwater ice, sea ice, ground ice, permafrost, atmospheric ice, paleoglaciology, and ice cores.
NSIDC publishes reports and a quarterly newsletter, and creates and distributes data products on CD-ROM and other media. It also holds a large library collection of monographs, technical reports, and journals.
Additional information is available in the NSIDC
Annual Report, 2001 (PDF file, ~2.1 MB)
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