# Outline of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The following outline is provided as an overview and topical guide to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a regulatory agency of the United States federal government, housed in the United States Department of Commerce:

## Organizational structure

* National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
** National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS)
*** National Climatic Data Center (NCDC); Dissolved In 2015
*** National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
** National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS or NOAA Fisheries)
*** NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement (NOAA OLE)
*** Seafood Inspection Program
**** Central Florida Lot Seafood Inspection Office (CFLSIO)
*** Pacific Islands Regional Office
*** Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC)
*** Human Capital Management Office (NMFS HCMO)
** National Ocean Service (NOS)
*** Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS)
*** National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS)
*** Office of Coast Survey (OCS)
*** Office for Coastal Management (OCM)
*** National Geodetic Survey (NGS)
*** Office of National Marine Sanctuaries (ONMS)
**** Monitor National Marine Sanctuary (MNMS)
*** Office of Response and Restoration (OR&R)
**** Marine Debris Program (MDP)
** United States Weather Bureau (USWB); Dissolved In 1970
** National Weather Service (NWS)
*** List of National Weather Service Weather Forecast Offices; 122 Weather Forecast Offices (NWS WFO)
**** National Weather Service Boise, Idaho (NWS Boise)
**** National Weather Service Lincoln, Illinois (NWS Lincoln)
**** National Weather Service Miami, Florida (NWS Miami)
**** National Weather Service Norman, Oklahoma (NWS Norman); inside the National Weather Center (NWC)
**** National Weather Service Amarillo, Texas (NWS Amarillo)
**** National Weather Service Chicago, Illinois (NWS Chicago)
**** National Weather Service Louisville, Kentucky (NWS Louisville)
**** National Weather Service Quad Cities, Iowa/Illinois (NWS Quad Cities)
*** National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)
**** Aviation Weather Center (AWC)
**** Climate Prediction Center (CPC)
**** Environmental Modeling Center (EMC)
**** National Hurricane Center (NHC)
***** Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program (HFIP)
**** Ocean Prediction Center (OPC)
**** Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC)
**** Storm Prediction Center (SPC); inside the National Weather Center (NWC)
**** Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (HPC); Dissolved in 2013
**** Weather Prediction Center (WPC)
*** Radar Operations Center (ROC); partly inside the National Weather Center (NWC)
*** River Forecast Centers (RFC)
*** Center Weather Service Units (CWSU)
*** National Data Buoy Center (NDBC)
** Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR or NOAA Research)
*** Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML)
**** Hurricane Research Division (HRD)
*** Air Resources Laboratory (ARL)
*** Earth System Research Laboratories (ESRL)
**** Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL)
***** Forecast Informed Reservoir Operations (FIRO)
*** Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL)
*** Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL)
*** National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL); inside the National Weather Center (NWC)
**** VORTEX projects
**** TOtable Tornado Observatory (TOTO)
**** Automated NonContact Hydrologic Observation in Rivers (ANCHOR)
**** Mid-latitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E); Dissolved 2011
**** Hydrological cycle in the Mediterranean EXperiment (HyMeX); Dissolved 2012
**** Dynamics of the Madden-Julian Oscillation experiment (DYNAMO); Dissolved 2012
**** Plains Elevated Convection At Night (PECAN); Dissolved 2015
**** Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT)
**** Warn-on-Forecast (WoF or WoFS)
**** Targeted Observation by Radars and UAS of Supercells (TORUS)
**** Propagation, Evolution, and Rotation in Linear Storms (PERiLS)
**** Forecasting a Continuum of Environmental Threats (FACETs); Proposed office
*** Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL)
*** Climate Program Office (CPO)
*** Uncrewed Systems Research Transition Office (UxSRTO); Dissolved in March 2024
*** Cooperative Institutes; partially funded/operated by NOAA OAR
**** Cooperative Institute for Climate Science (CICS-P)
**** Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS-M)
**** Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research (CIFAR)
**** Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research (CILER)
**** Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS)
**** Cooperative Institute for Marine Ecosystems and Climate (CIMEC)
**** Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations (CIWRO); inside the National Weather Center (NWC)
**** Cooperative Institute for Marine Resources Studies (CIMRS)
**** Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS)
**** Cooperative Institute for the North Atlantic Region (CINAR)
**** Cooperative Institute for Ocean Exploration, Research, and Technology (CIOERT)
**** Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)
**** Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)
**** Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (CIPIR/JIMAR)
**** Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO)
**** Northern Gulf Institute (NGI)
*** NOAA Nursing Mothers Program (NOAA NMP)
** Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO)
** U.S. National Geodetic Survey (NGS)
** NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps (NOAA Corps)
*** Aircraft Operations Center (AOC)
** National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS)
** U.S. National Ice Center (USNIC); Jointly owned and operated by the Department of Defense (DOD) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

## Other

* NOAA under the second presidency of Donald Trump