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The Paleoclimatology website ... serves as a portal to the WDC-A, the World Data Center for Meteorology, Asheville, which is maintained by the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The portal is collocated and operated by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), under which the Paleoclimatology Program operates. The WDC-A acquires, catalogues, and archives data, and makes the data available to international scientific investigators without restriction, including special research data sets prepared under international programs. The data sets include those from the IGY, World Climate Program (WCP), and Global Atmospheric Research Program (GARP). The WDC-A's mission is to make data submission easy and efficient, and to help preserve climate data as a legacy to be used by scientists and other colleagues today and in the future.
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Paleoclimatology has been integrated with the Climate Change Data and Detection element. The instrumental and satellite record of climate variability extends back in time about 130 years, and is therefore not long enough to define the full range of natural climate variability. For this reason, NOAA implements a Paleoclimatology program that is tightly focused on using geological and biological records of past climate change to understand the complete patterns, processes and causes of natural interannual to century-scale climate variability. By tapping climate information contained in corals, tree-rings, ice-cores, sediments, and other sources, Paleoclimatology is coordinating international activities to extend NOAA's long-term record of global climate change back millennia. This work has already provided examples of climate system behavior that are not visible in the short instrumental record, but are clues to what might happen in the future. Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) will use this information to evaluate the performance of their predictive models.
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The Paleoclimatology Program web site ... presents Paleo Perspectives, a section of the site that deals with the subjects: Drought, designed to help educate, inform and highlight the history and importance of drought; and Global Warming. Each of these two subjects are discussed from the view of "The Beginning", "The Story", "The Data", and "A Final Word". For example, under the section on Global Warming The Story, provides a background on climate issues and the scientific study of climate variability, and The Data, offers a comprehensive look at the instrumental and paleoclimatic data that tells us how the Earth's temperature has changed over the centuries.
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