The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) has been established to develop a dedicated observing system needed to meet the scientific requirements for monitoring the climate, detecting climate change, and predicting climate variations and change.
The GCOS On-Line Data and Information Management System (GOLDIS) is meant to provide access to information of interest to members of the climate change research community. This entry to GOLDIS is maintained at the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, Switzerland (map).
This, version 1.0, is a prototype designed to test the feasibility of the hypertext approach to providing access to this information.
The following centers and organizations are currently participating in GCOS. Wherever possible, links are provided to the climate data sections of these organizations. In some cases, users must use custom software to download or order data from these organizations.
This page was last updated 21 December 1995
| British Atmospheric Data Centre Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Chilton, Didcot Oxon OX11 0QX, United Kingdom |
Tel: (44) 1235 445 723 Fax: (44) 1235 445 848 Email: badc@rl.ac.uk |
| Environment Canada, Climate Information Branch 4095 Dufferin Street Downsview, Ontario, Canada M3h 5T4 |
Tel: (1 416) 739-4438 Email: cp@dow.on.doe.ca |
| European Climate Support Network (ECSN) National Meteorological Institute P.O. Box 285 Madrid Spain |
Tel: (34 1) 581 98 04 Fax: (34 1) 581 97 56 Email: ecsn@inm.es |
| Global Collecting Centre for Marine Climatological Summaries Deutscher Wetterdienst Bernhard-Nocht-Strasse 76 D-20359 Hamburg, Germany |
Tel: (49 40) 3190-0 Fax: (49 40) 3190-8803 |
| Global Precipitation Climatology Centre Deutscher Wetterdienst P.O. Box 100465 D-63004 Offenbach/Main, Germany |
Tel: (49 69) 8062-2981 Fax: (49 69) 8062-2880 |
| Global Runoff Data Centre Federal Institute of Hydrology D-56068 Koblenz, Germany |
Tel: (49 261) 1306-0 Fax: (49 261) 1306-280 |
| Climate Prediction Center World Weather Building 5200 Auth Road Camp Springs, MD 20233 USA |
Tel: (1 301) 763-8167 |
| National Meteorological Center (Australia) (WMO Global Data Processing Centre and Australian Climate Centre) National Climate Centre Burea of Meteorology G.P.O. Box 1289K Melbourne, Victoria, 3001, Australia |
Tel: (61 3) 669 4082 Fax: (61 3) 669-4515 Email: dstran@bom.gov.au |
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| U.S. Global Change Research Program (Includes pointers to servers at the sites below plus many others) | |
| Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) (WDC-A Atmospheric Trace Gases) Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA |
Tel: (1 615) 574-0390 Fax: (1 615) 574-2232 Email: cdp@ornl.gov |
| EROS Data Center (WDC-A Remotely sensed land data) Customer Services Sioux Falls, SD 57198 USA |
Tel: (1 605) 594-6151 Fax: (1 605) 594-6589 Email: eros@edcserver1.cr.usgs.gov |
| NASA Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Distributed locations | |
| Global Change Master Directory (NASA site) Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA |
Tel: (1 301) 441-4299 Email: mduso@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov |
| National Center for Atmospheric Research Data Support Section P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80303 USA |
Tel: (1 303) 497-1219 Fax: (1 303) 497-1298 Email: datahelp@ncar.ucar.edu |
| National Geophysical Data Center (WDC-A Paleoclimatology, Solid Earth Geophysics, Marine Geology and Geophysics, and Solar Terrestrial Physics) 325 Broadway Boulder, CO 80303 USA |
Tel: (1 303) 497-6826 Fax: (1 303) 497-6513 Email: info@ngdc.noaa.gov |
| National Oceanographic Data Center (WDC-A Oceanography) 1825 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20235 USA |
Tel: (1 202) 606-4549 Fax: (1 202) 606-4586 Email: services@nodc.noaa.gov |
| National Snow and Ice Data Center (WDC-A Glaciology) Campus Box 449 CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309 USA |
Tel: (1 303) 492-6199 Fax: (1 303) 492-2468 Email: nsidc@kryos.colorado.edu |
| NOAA Satellite Active Archive User Assistance 5627 Allentown Road Suite 100 PES Camp Springs, MD 20746 USA |
Tel: (1 301) 763-8400 Fax: (1 301) 763-8443 Email: saainfo@nesdis.noaa.gov |