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Extended Edited Synoptic Cloud Reports Archive (EECRA) from Ships and Land Stations Over the Globe, 1952-1997
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EECRA contains surface synoptic weather reports for the entire globe,
gathered from various available data sets. The reports were processed, edited,
and rewritten to provide a single dataset of individual observations of clouds,
spanning the 46 years 1952-1997 for ship data and the 26 years 1971-1996 for
land station data. In addition to the cloud portion of the synoptic report,
each edited report also includes the associated pressure, present weather, wind,
air temperature, and dew point (and sea surface temperature over oceans).
Land data are collected from
U.S. Navy SPOT Global Surface and Upper Air Observations for 1971-1976 and
from dataset NCEP ADP Global Surface Observations
for 1977-1996; ship observations are from dataset ICOADS.
The data may be obtained online from the RELATED SITES.
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| PERIODS: |
1952 to 1997
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| VARIABLES: |
| Cloud Amount/Frequency | Cloud Types | Dew Point Temperature | Sea Level Pressure |
| Sea Surface Temperature | Surface Air Temperature | Surface Winds | |
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| TYPES: |
Platform Observations
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| SOURCES: |
UAZ/ATMO Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona
UWA/ATMOSDepartment of Atmospheric Science, University of Washington
DOD/USNAVY/FNMOCFleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center, U.S. Navy, U. S. Department of Defense
DOC/NOAA/NWS/NCEPNational Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
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| RELATED SITES: |
Climate Atlas of Clouds Over Land and Ocean at the University of Washington
Documentation and Data at CDIAC
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| PUBLICATIONS: |
Hahn, C.J. and S.G. Warren, 1999: Extended Edited Synoptic Cloud Reports from Ships and Land Stations Over the Globe, 1952-1996. NDP026C, Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 71 pp.
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 ds292.2."
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| VOLUME: |
9.80 GBytes
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| DATA FORMATS: |
ASCII (see dataset documentation)
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| RELATED DATASETS: |
ds292.0 - Warren's Global Climatological Cloud Data, 1930-1983Nov
ds292.1 - Warren's Global Climatological Cloud Data, by Surface Observations 1982-91
ds464.0 - NCEP ADP Operational Global Surface Observations, February 1975 - February 2007
ds465.1 - U.S. Navy SPOT Global Surface and Upper Air Observations, daily 1971-1996
ds540.0 - International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS Release 2.5), Global Marine Surface Observations
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| 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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| DATA ACCESS: |
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