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Appendix D: NOAA, NESDIS, and NGDC Missions, Visions, and Strategic Objectives
Pages 93-98

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... Ionosphere data, including ionograms, frequency plots, riometer and field-strength strip charts, and tabulations; solar activity data; geomagnetic variation data, including magnetograms; auroral data; cosmic ray data; and airglow data. 1 NGDC was named the National Geophysical and Solar-Terrestrial Data Center from 1972 to 1982.
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From page 94...
... Magnetic survey data and secularchange data tables.2 NGDC Web Site Statement The National Geophysical Data Center's mission is data management in the broadest sense. We play an integral role in NOAA's environmental research and stewardship, and provide data services to users worIdwide.3 NGDC Functional Statement The National Geophysical Data Center conducts a data and data-information service in all scientific and technical areas involving solid earth geophysics, marine geology and geophysics, glaciology (snow and ice)
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From page 95...
... Enhancing operational satellite sensing systems 2. Promoting critical environmental data and information services 5 Presentation to the committee by Michael Loughridge, director, NGDC, August 13.
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... Providing operational ocean services 10. Saving lives and property through hazards support.8 NOAA MISSION, MISSION STRATEGIES, AND VISION NOAA Mission To understand and predict changes in the Earth's environment and conserve and manage coastal and marine resources to meet the Nation's economic, social, and environmental needs.9 NOAA Mission Goals Protect, restore and manage the use of coastal and ocean resources through ecosystem management approaches.
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... APPENDIX D 97 · Organizational excellence: facilities, infrastructure, security, human capital and administrative services.ll NOAA Vision To move NOAA into the 21st Century scientifically and operationally, in the same interrelated manner as the environment that we observe and forecast, while recognizing the link between our global economy and our planet's environment.l2 Ibid-, pp.
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  • environmental data

  • solid earth
  • space environment
  • global environmental
  • earthquake data
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  • information services
  • world data
  • earth geophysics
  • information service
  • jointly planning

  • airglow data
  • magnetic survey
  • ecosystem management
  • site statement
  • total field

  • strip charts
  • mission goals
  • seismic reflection
  • marine geology
  • broadest sense

  • center prepares
  • earth tides
  • environmental observation
  • scientific specialties
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