Makes satellite data products and in-situ data from NOAA environmental buoys available to Federal, state, and local marine scientists and coastal resource managers.

NCDC is the world's largest active archive of weather data. NCDC produces numerous climate publications and responds to data requests from all over the world.

Multiagency center whose mission is to provide worldwide operational sea ice analyses and forecasts for government agencies worldwide and the civil sector. Produces analyses and forecasts of Arctic, Antarctic, Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay ice conditions to support customers with global, regional and tactical scale interests.

The National Oceanographic Data Center houses the largest collection of freely accessible oceanographic data in the world.

The primary objectives of the OCL are to improve the quality of the NODC's oceanographic data archives by using the data to perform scientific analyses, and develop improved ocean climatologies for annual, seasonal, and monthly compositing periods .