Together with the National Climatic Data Center NCDC and the National Geophysical Data Center NGDC The National Oceanographic Data Center NODC is one of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstrations NOAA environmental data centers serving as a national repository and dissemination facility for global ocean data Data queries within NODC can be conducted using either a basic search engine or the prototype version of the NODC Catalog Alternately direct access to the NODC oceanographic data archive is available with NODC Direct Data searches across all of NOAAs electronic archives are possible by way of the NOAA Server the Interactive Data Access and Retrieval System IDARS or the National Virtual Data System The actual Research Divisions within NODC include the Coastal Ocean Laboratory COL the Ocean Climate Laboratory OCL and the NOAA Central Library COL data are gathered on phenomena such as plankton chlorophyll waves and currents temperature ocean profiles salinity levels nutrients oxygen contents and so forth while the OCL provides such resources as the World Ocean Atlas the World Ocean Database the Biological Atlas of the Arctic Seas 2000 online and the Atlas of Surface Marine Data 1994 An International Activities section includes the World Data Center for Oceanography and the International Ocean Atlas Series