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U.S.A.F. DATSAV Surface Observations, 1973-1981

Global surface observations from USAF(ETAC) at NCDC in DATSAV3 format. This set is superceded by ds463.2.


PERIODS: 1973-01 to 1981-12
VARIABLES:
Air TemperatureCloud Amount/FrequencyCloud BaseCloud Types
Dew Point TemperatureGeopotential HeightPrecipitation AmountSea Level Pressure
Sea Surface TemperatureSnowStation HeightSurface Pressure
Surface WindsVisibilityWave HeightWave Period
Wave Speed/Direction   
LEVELS:
Ground or water surface
TYPES: Platform Observation
SOURCES: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC
National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
DOD/USAF/AFWA
Air Force Weather Agency, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Department of Defense
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 ds463.1."
VOLUME: 8.50 GBytes
DATA FORMATS: Binary (see dataset documentation)
RELATED DATASETS: ds463.0 - NCDC TD9685 Global Surface Observations (from USAF DATSAV), hourly 1967-1980
ds463.2 - U.S.A.F. DATSAV3 Surface Observations, 1901-continuing
ds463.3 - NCDC TD3505 Integrated Surface Hourly Data, 1901-continuing
ds467.0 - AWS TD13 Global Surface Observations, daily 1901-1973

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