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Program Management
The Atmospheric Observation Panel for Climate (AOPC) was established to define the requirements for meteorological observations for GCOS. AOPC is responsible for the planning and implementation of GUAN in cooperation with the World Weather Watch of the WMO.
Contact Information
NOAA National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
Federal Building
151 Patton Avenue
Asheville NC 28801-5001
828-271-4800
FAX: 828-271-4876
Contact
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Data Management Aspects
The Hadley Centre of the UK Met Office and the NOAA/National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) act as joint data analysis centers for GUAN. Their responsibilities are:
NCDC (web site)
- Update and quality control daily data
- Apply bias adjustments to daily data
- Calculate monthly statistics (MONADS) from the bias-adjusted daily data
- Report on historical and metadata reception and improve metadata
- Provide daily and monthly data to users
The Hadley Centre (web site)
- Improve monthly station data base
- Improve bias adjustments to monthly data
- Analyze monthly upper air data
- Provide grid products with reduced biases
- Create global and regional monthly statistics
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