NOAA's Global Observing Systems Information Center

New service introduced at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center

This new, already operational service facilitates the access to data, data products and information provided by various programmes including GCOS (Climatic), GOOS (Oceanic) and GTOS (Terrestrial) as well as partner programmes such as Global Atmospheric Watch and the World Weather Watch.

Source: Jelle U. Hielkema, Rome

Mention should be made, Ken McDonald (who co-chaired the 22nd CEOS WGISS Meeting hosted by HUNAGI and EOGEO Hungary in Budapest last year, and who - together with Ivan Petiteville of ESA - was for the establishment of the WGISS - GSDI liason), has just left NASA to join NOAA's GEO Integrated Data Environment Project (GEO-IDE) that is addressing improvements to the access and use of NOAA's data and information resources. The new service of NOAA at NCDC in Asheville Norh Carolina will be surely introduced at the 24th Meeting of CEOS Working Group on Information Systems and Services in Hanoi, scheduled for late May (Details: http://hunagi19.blogspot.com , http://wgiss.ceos.org )