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British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC)  badc.nerc.ac.uk The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) designated data centre for the Atmospheric Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Earth Rotation Portal  www.erdrotation.de Scientists at several institutions are investigating aspects of the Earth's rotation in ten thematic projects with the aim of accounting for the unexplained variations.

Earth Simulator Project  www.earthsimulator.org.uk Supercomputing project targeted at creating a "virtual Earth" in order to achieve an accurate prediction model of global-scale phenomena, including patterns of global climate change and production of data to protect human lives from natural disasters.

EOS-WEBSTER  eos-webster.sr.unh.edu Digital library of free, customized earth science data from the University of New Hampshire.

Geoscience Data Repository  gdr.nrcan.gc.ca A collection of earth science databases managed by Canadian Natural Resources, allows for viewing and download.

International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service  www.iers.org IERS provides data, publications and general information on the Earth`s orientation, the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF) and the International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF), as well as geophysical data and conventions.

NERC: Data Centres  www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data Directory of Designated Data Centres from the Natural Environment Research Council in the United Kingdom.

Unidata Internet Data Distribution (IDD)  www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idd Community of over 130 universities building a system for disseminating near real-time earth observations via the Internet. The system is designed so that a university can request that certain data sets be delivered to their computers as soon as they are available from the observing system.