Canadian ISDM (formerly MEDS) Drifting Buoy Observations
Canadian quality-controlled Integrated Science Data Management (ISDM, formerly MEDS) drifting
(and some moored) buoy data, used as input for International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere
Data Set (ICOADS).
Data from
drifters with deep drogues, collected by the Institut fur Meereskunde, at the University of
Kiel from 1980 to 1996, are also archived in this dataset.
PERIODS:
1978 to 2008 (Entire dataset)
Period details by subsetPeriod details by subset:
1978 to 2004 (Originals of MEDS inputs for ICOADS Release 2.2)
2005 to 2008 (ISDM inputs for ICOADS, 2005-2008)
1980 to 1996 (Kiel Deep Drifter Data)
Recommended acknowledgement for this dataset:
"The data for this study are from the Research Data Archive (RDA) which is maintained by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). NCAR is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The original data are available from the RDA (http://dss.ucar.edu) in dataset number ds256.0."
VOLUME:
905.07 MBytes (Entire dataset)
Volume details by subsetVolume details by subset:
Kiel Deep Drifter Data: 16.73 MBytes
ISDM inputs for ICOADS, 2005-2008: 468.32 MBytes
Originals of MEDS inputs for ICOADS Release 2.2: 420.02 MBytes
DATA FORMATS:
Binary (see dataset documentation)
RELATED DATASETS:
ds530.0 - ICOADS Auxiliary and Future Datasets ds540.0 - International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS Release 2.5), Global Marine Surface Observations
CONTACT:
For assistance with this dataset, please contact
Zaihua Ji (303-497-1819)
. If the specialist is unavailable, please contact
Data Help.
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