Russian Research Institute for Hydrometeorological Information – World Data Center (RIHMI-WDC)
•RIHMI-WDC is
located in Obninsk, 100 km from Moscow
•RIHMI-WDC hosts 4
World Data Centers: Meteorology, Oceanography,
Rockets & Satellites, Earth Rotation
•RIHMI-WDC has one
of the most wide collections of global
meteorological, aerological, hydrological, oceanographical data in the world
•The total volume of
the digitized data in RIHMI-WDC is about 2 TBytes
• The total volume of hardcopy undigitized data
at RIHMI-WDC is
questionable