NOAA NODC Ocean Climate Laboratory
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The Ocean Climate Laboratory (OCL) is a division of the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). The primary objectives of the OCL are to: * improve the quality of the NODC's oceanographic data archives by using the data to perform scientific analyses * develop improved ocean climatologies for annual, seasonal, and monthly compositing periods * investigate interannual-to-decadal ocean climate variability using historical oceanographic data * build scientifically, quality-controlled global oceanographic databases * facilitate international exchange of oceanographic data.
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