National Centers for Environmental InformationFormed from merger of the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) and the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) Previously, the National Climatic Data Center, NCDC, focused on historical archives of weather and climate data. Two areas--the Storm Events Database to search for storm reports in US since 1950; and the NCDC Historical GOES Browse Server with weather satellite images from July 1, 1992 through present.