Who runs the DDC?

The DDC is a shared operation of the British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC) in the United Kingdom; the World Data Center Climate at the Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum in Germany (WDCC / DKRZ) in Hamburg, Germany; and the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) operated by the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University, New York, USA. Each of these institutions has voluntarily taken on responsibility for managing access to a subset of the data and information provided by the DDC.

The funding for the DDC has been provided by the German Government through the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF); by the UK Government through the Department for Business, Energy and Insdustrial Strategy (BEIS); and by the US Government through National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

The DDC is advised and guided by the Task Group on Data Support for Climate Change Assessments (TG-DATA) (formely the Task Group on Data and Scenario Support for Impact and Climate Analysis - TGICA). Both the DDC and the TG-DATA are supported by the IPCC Technical Support Units of Working Group I, Working Group II, and Working group III, through whom they are accountable to the IPCC. The contact details of the relevant personnel are as follows:

IPCC DDC Managers:

Dr. Martin Juckes NCAS, BADC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Didcot, OX11 0QX UK Tel: +44 1235 445124 Fax: +44 1235 446314 E-mail: martin.juckes@stfc.ac.uk

Dr. Martina Stockhause World Data Center Climate Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH Bundesstrasse 45a D-20146 Hamburg Germany Tel: +49 40 460094 433 E-mail: stockhause@dkrz.de

Dr. Robert S. Chen (CIESIN DDC Manager) Xiaoshi Xing, (CIESIN DDC Coordinator) Columbia University 61 Route 9W, PO Box 1000 Palisades, New York 10964 USA Tel: +1 845-365-8967 Fax: +1 845-365-8922 E-mail: xxiaoshi@ciesin.columbia.edu

Guidance Material

The procedures for producing full length guidance documents and brief factsheets are given here: guidelines publication procedure and factsheet publication procedure.