ncdc

English Thesaurus

1. the part of NOAA that maintains the world's largest active archive of weather data (noun.group)

hypernym	:	agency, authority, bureau, federal agency, government agency, office,
definition	:	an administrative unit of government (noun.group)

part meronym	:	national oceanic and atmospheric administration, noaa,
definition	:	an agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources; predicts changes to the earth's environment; provides weather reports and forecasts floods and hurricanes and other natural disasters related to weather (noun.group)