---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 C.F.R. § 950.4"
title: "15"
number: "950.4"
heading: "National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC)."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/15/950.4"
---

# §950.4. National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC).


The National Oceanographic Data Center acquires, processes, archives, analyzes, and disseminates oceanographic data; develops analytical and descriptive products to meet user requirements; and provides facilities for the World Data Center-A (Oceanography). It was the first NODC established and houses the world's largest usuable collection of marine data.

- (a) **Oceanographic data available from NODC include—**
  - (1) **Mechanical and expendable bathytheremograph data in analog and digital form.**
  - (2) Oceanographic station data for surface and serial depths, giving values of temperature, salinity, oxygen, inorganic phosphate, total phosphorus, nitrite-nitrogen, nitrate-nitrogen, silicate-silicon, and pH.
  - (3) **Continuously recorded salinity-temperature-depth data in digital form.**
  - (4) **Surface current information obtained by using drift bottle or calculated from ship set and drift.**
  - (5) Biological data, giving values of plankton standing crop, chlorophyll concentrations, and rates of primary productivity.
  - (6) Other marine environmental data obtained by diverse techniques, e.g., instrumented buoy data, and current meter data.
- (b) **Queries should be addressed to—** National Oceanographic Data Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington, DC 20235, tel. 202-634-7500.

## 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.