User:Oceanflynn/sandbox/Distributed Active Archive Centers

A Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) are selected by NASA to be part of Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) to "process, archive, document, and distribute data" using NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) "satellites and field measurement programs". DAACs provide a "full range of support to global change researchers" such as "data products, data information, user services, and tools". There are a dozen DAACs that operate on a cooperative basis with data centers that focus on one or more earth science discipline.

The following is a list of data centers and data specializations:
 * Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF) DAAC: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data, sea ice, polar processes, geophysics.
 * Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) at the NASA Langley Research Center focuses on radiation budget, clouds, aerosols, and tropospheric chemistry.
 * Crustal Dynamics Data Information System (CDDIS): satellite geodesy.
 * Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC) DAAC is located within the University of Alabama in Huntsville. GHRC focuses on "lightning, tropical cyclones and storm-induced hazards through integrated collections of satellite, airborne, and in-situ data sets" including hydrologic cycle, severe weather interactions, atmospheric convection.
 * Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) is "located within NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. It provides access to a wide range of global climate data, concentrated primarily in the areas of atmospheric composition, atmospheric dynamics, global precipitation, and solar irradiance" including global precipitation, solar irradiance, atmospheric composition, atmospheric dynamics, global modeling.
 * Land Processes DAAC (LP DAAC) is "located at the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota" : surface reflectivity, land cover, vegetation indices.
 * Level 1 Atmosphere Archive and Distribution System (LAADS) DAAC: radiance, atmosphere.
 * National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC DAAC): snow, ice, cryosphere, climate.
 * Oak Ridge National Laboratory DAAC (ORNL DAAC): biogeochemical dynamics, ecological data, environmental processes.
 * Ocean Biology DAAC (OB.DAAC): ocean biology, ocean color, ocean biogeochemistry, sea surface temperature.
 * Physical Oceanography DAAC (PO DAAC): sea surface temperature, ocean winds, circulation and currents, topography and gravity.
 * Socioeconomic Data and Applications Data Center (SEDAC): human interactions, land use, environmental sustainability, geospatial data, multilateral environmental agreements.