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NCEP ADP Global Surface Observational Weather Data, October 1999 - continuing

NCEP ADP Global Surface Observational Weather Data are composed of surface weather reports operationally collected by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). The data includes land and marine surface reports received via the Global Telecommunications System (GTS). Variables recorded in the reports include pressure, air temperature, dewpoint temperature, wind direction and speed. Precipitation data has been decoded for the U.S. and Canada. Report intervals range from hourly to 3 hourly. These data are the primary input to the NCEP Global Data Assimilation System (GDAS).

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PERIODS:

1999-09-30 to 2009-11-16 (Entire dataset)

Period details by subset

Period details by subset:
1999-09-30 to 2009-11-16 (GDAS Surface Observations, 1999Oct-current)

UPDATES:

Monthly (nominally)

VARIABLES:

Air Temperature	Cloud Amount/Frequency	Cloud Base	Cloud Types
Dew Point Temperature	Precipitation Amount	Sea Level Pressure	Sea Surface Temperature
Snow	Station Height	Surface Pressure	Surface Winds
Visibility	Wave Height	Wave Period	Wave Speed/Direction

TYPES:

Platform Observation

COVERAGE:

See the detailed metadata for coverage information

SOURCES:

DOC/NOAA/NWS/NCEP

National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce

PUBLICATIONS:

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 ds461.0."

VOLUME:

53.54 GBytes (Entire dataset)

Volume details by subset

Volume details by subset:
GDAS Surface Observations, 1999Oct-current: 53.54 GBytes

DATA FORMATS:

WMO BUFR

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MORE DETAILS:

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CONTACT:

For assistance with this dataset, please contact Doug Schuster (303-497-1216) or Gregg Walters (303-497-1218) . If the specialist is unavailable, please contact Data Help.

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