NOAA's National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) opened its doors on November 1, 1960, with 29 employees ready to take on the challenge of compiling, sorting, and organizing the disparate collections of oceanographic data into a single system. A daunting task, considering that the U.S. Navy had already determined that data were coming in at such a rate that it was nearly impossible to keep up. The work soon began with a collection of unclassified data that consisted of approximately 2,000,000 machine-punched cards containing about 100,000 stations of oceanographic data. This data consisted of about 3 million observations of temperatures, waves, currents, and depths. In comparison to today's data collections, NODC's archive currently contains over 44 terabytes of data packaged into more than 86,000 archived original datasets, and hundreds of different ocean data types. More information on the NODC 50 Years of Service can be found at
http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/anniversary50.html
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