The National Cryosphere Desert Data Center (hereinafter referred to as NCDC) is supported by the Institute of environment and Engineering in the cold and dry areas of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with Xinjiang Institute of ecology and geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu Institute of mountain land disaster and environment of the Ministry of water resources of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qinghai Salt Lake Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Qinghai Gao of the Chinese Academy of Sciences The Institute of protobiology and other units were jointly established. The supporting units of glacier permafrost desert data center have formed a scientific research and support system of seven research laboratories and three research systems, highlighting the research characteristics of glacier, permafrost, desert, atmosphere, water and soil, ecology, environment, resources, engineering and sustainable development in the dry areas of cold regions. In the 35 years since the establishment of the first "Tianshan No.1 glacier material balance database" in 1985, a series of management standards, methods and systems for scientific data collection, management, sharing and application have been formed. Prior to other data management institutions, DOI has been introduced to protect the rights and interests of data authors, and has rich experience in scientific data management, open sharing and application support in related fields.
in sharing services , the center has 33977 registered users, 55tb of online data, 57tb of offline data, 243 model resources. It has provided 248tb of offline data and model services for more than 460 universities, enterprises, and government agencies with 6809 off-line and 78684 on-line data and model services, supporting nearly 50000 master's and doctoral papers, and more than 2000 cited or acknowledged papers. It has supported research on glaciers, snow, frozen soil, deserts, hydrology, inland rivers and cold and dry areas.