NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) and the affiliated Regional Climate Centers (RCCs) have been working closely with climate community partners, including NOAA’s National Weather Service/Climate Services Division, to enhance its cyberinfrastructure for data quality assurance (through algorithms and feedback mechanisms) and data dissemination. With the maturation of its Applied Climate Information System (ACIS; http://www.rcc-acis.org/), the RCCs are synchronizing their near-real-time data ingest and dissemination capabilities with the NCDC archive to deliver end-to-end climate information.

This talk will focus on three critical cyberinfrastructure advances in the RCC-NCDC architecture: i.) a formal data feedback mechanism for reporting data quality concerns; ii.) RCC-NCDC data quality assurance synchronization; and iii.) a web-based data query system for easy access to climate information by climate community partners and the public. In addition, the status of joint RCC-NCDC climate services delivery through the NOAA/NESDIS e-Commerce System (NeS) will be discussed. The benefits of the resultant improved information delivery for scientists, engineers, decision makers, the educational community, and the public will be highlighted.