---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 C.F.R. § 950.3"
title: "15"
number: "950.3"
heading: "National Climatic Center (NCC)."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/15/950.3"
---

# §950.3. National Climatic Center (NCC).


The National Climatic Center acquires, processes, archives, analyzes, and disseminates climatological data; develops analytical and descriptive products to meet user requirements; and provides facilities for the World Data Center-A (Meteorology). It is the collection center and custodian of all United States weather records, the largest of the EDIS centers, and the largest climatic center in the world.

- (a) **Climatic data available from NCC include—**
  - (1) Hourly Surface Observations from Land Stations (ceiling, sky cover, visibility, precipitation or other weather phenomena, obstructions to vision, pressure, temperature, dew point, wind direction, wind speed, gustiness).
  - (2) Three-Hourly and Six-Hourly Surface Observations from Land Stations, Ocean Weather Stations, and Moving Ships (variable data content).
  - (3) Upper Air Observations (radiosondes, rawinsondes, rocketsondes, low-level soundings, pilot-balloon winds, aircraft reports).
  - (4) **Radar Observations (radar log sheets, radar scope photography).**
  - (5) **Selected Maps and Charts (National Meteorological Center products).**
  - (6) **Derived and Summary Data (grid points, computer tabulations, digital summary data).**
  - (7) Special Collections (Barbados Oceanographic and Meteorological Experiment meteorological data, Global Atmospheric Research Program basic data set, solar radiation data, many others).
- (b) **Queries should be addressed to—** National Climatic Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Asheville, NC 28801, tel. 704-258-2850, Ext. 683.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: (5 U.S.C. 552, 553). Reorganization Plan No. 4 of 1970.

### Source

Source: 44 FR 54468, Sept. 20, 1979, unless otherwise noted.