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Climate Database Modernization Program provides access to historical data and records: An overview of various projects
Thomas F. Ross, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
The goal of NOAA’s Climate Database Modernization Program (CDMP) is to make major climate databases available via the World Wide Web (WWW). As the CDMP program matured the program grew to include tasks involving five NOAA line offices. The program also grew internationally with data modernization efforts underway in six African countries. Modernization efforts include the keying of observations; the imaging of original records whether on paper, microform, or photographs; the vectorizing of shorelines and the digitizing of analog records. In 2002, the cumulative number of images on-line reached 36 million. This presentation will highlight various CDMP program and projects. CDMP supports over 40 different NOAA tasks ranging from imaging historical photographs of Alaskan glaciers, to keying weather observations from the Forts collection (1820-1895), to making the Daily Weather Maps and Monthly Weather Review publication available via the WWW, to imaging Defense Meteorological Satellite Program film.
Session 1, Climate Products and Data Sets (Room 619/620)
Monday, 12 January 2004, 9:00 AM-10:15 AM, Room 619/620
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