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World Data Centres

World Data Center System part of the International Council of Scientific Union (ICSU), 52 WDCs as of 2003 the World Data Center System works to guarantee access to solar, geophysical and related environmental data. It serves the whole scientific community by assembling, scrutinizing, organizing and disseminating data and information. Recently a new ICSU World Data System based on the ICSU World Data Center System and the ICSU Federation of Astronomical and Geophysical data-analysis Services has been created. Below a list of World Data Centres collaborating with WMO can be found.

Meteorology and climatology

World Data Center for Meteorology, Ashville

World Data Center for Meteorology, Obninsk

China Meteorological Data Sharing Service System

World Data Center for Climate (WDCC)

Oceanography

WDC for Oceanography, Silver Spring, United States

WDC for Oceanography, Tianjin , People's Republic of China

Paleoclimatology

World Data Center for Paleoclimatology

Solar radiation and radiation balance

World Radiation Data Centre

World Radiation Monitoring Center

Glaciology

World Data Centre for Glaciology, Cambridge, UK

Greenhouse gases

World Data Centre for Greenhouse Gases

Ozone and ultraviolet radiation

World Ozone and Ultraviolet Radiation Data Centre

Aerosols

World Data Centre for Aerosols

Remote Sensing (atmospheric physics and chemistry)

The World Data Center for Remote Sensing

Useful atmospheric data and information systems

Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data

Global Atmosphere Watch Station Information System

Global data of the Earth System Research Laboratory

«World records on weather and climate extremes