The Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) was an organization within the

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that had the primary responsibility for providing the US government and research community with

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data and analysis as it pertains to energy issues. The CDIAC, and its subsidiary the

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for Atmospheric Trace Gases, focused on obtaining, evaluating and distributing data related to climate change and

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. CDIAC was founded in 1982 and was located within the Environmental Sciences Division of

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. CDIAC closed September 30, 2017, and its data was distributed to a number of different repositories. The majority of the data was moved to the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem
ESS-DIVE
archive. The Oceanic

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data have been transitioned to the new Ocean Carbon Data System (OCADS) operated by NOAA's

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(NCEI) at https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/ocads/. The Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON) data have been transitioned to Caltech (http://tccondata.org/). HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observations (HIPPO) data are transitioning to the

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Earth Observing Laboratory (https://www.eol.ucar.edu/data-software).

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Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
{{climate-change-stub Energy in the United States Greenhouse gas emissions in the United States Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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