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Information on CDIAC's mission, new and frequently used data products, data policies, staff and more
- Background & Mission
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- Data
Select one of these Data Focus Areas to find data of interest, use the CDIAC Data Search or Submit Ocean Data
- Fossil-Fuel CO2 Emissions
- Trace Gas Emissions
- Atmospheric Trace Gases
- Oceanic Trace Gases
- Carbon Cycle
- Terrestrial Carbon Management
- Vegetation Response to CO2 & Climate
- Climate
- Land-Use & Ecosystems
- Observing Programs
CDIAC provides scientific and data management expertise for programs sponsored by a number of agencies
- AmeriFlux Network
- Ocean CO2
- FACE
- HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observations (HIPPO)
- NARSTO
- NGEE-Arctic
- SPRUCE
- Resources
Key resources related to carbon cycle and climate change research
- Recent Greenhouse Gas Concentrations
- Latest Global Carbon Budget Estimates
- Illustration of the Global Carbon Cycle
- Climate.gov
- U.S. Global Change Research Program
- U.S. Energy Information Administration
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Reports
- Educational Links
- News
Recent CDIAC activities, data releases, and highlighted climate change news/publications
- What's New at CDIAC
- Recent Global Climate Change-Related News & Publications
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Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
The Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) is the primary climate-change data and information analysis center of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). CDIAC is located at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and includes the World Data Center for Atmospheric Trace Gases.
CDIAC's data holdings include estimates of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel consumption and land-use changes; records of atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other radiatively active trace gases; carbon cycle and terrestrial carbon management datasets and analyses; and global/regional climate data and time series.
CDIAC provides scientific and data management support for projects sponsored by a number of agencies, including the AmeriFlux Network, continuous observations of ecosystem level exchanges of CO2, water, energy and momentum at different time scales for sites in the Americas; the Ocean CO2 Data Program of CO2 measurements taken aboard ocean research vessels; DOE-supported FACE experiments, which evaluate plant and ecosystem response to elevated CO2 concentrations; and the HIPPO project, which is analyzing the atmospheric carbon cycle and greenhouse gas concentrations from pole to pole over the Pacific Ocean.
CDIAC is supported by DOE's Climate and Environmental Sciences Division within the Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER).
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Recent Data Activities
The daily data from the United States Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) were updated through 2012.
Global temperature time series from Hansen et al. (NASA/GISS) and Jones et al. (CRU) were both updated through 2012.
DayRec: An Interface for Exploring United States Record-Maximum/Minimum Daily Temperatures uses daily Tmax and Tmin data from NOAA's GHCN-Daily database to examine record-setting U.S. temperatures.
CDIAC's Global, Regional, and National Fossil-Fuel CO2 Emissions database has been updated through 2009 and includes a new data visualization interface.
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