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U.S. Navy SPOT Global Surface and Upper Air Observations, daily 1971-1996

The Navy Fleet Numerical Weather Center (FNWC) collects, on an operational basis, surface and upper air data from the Global Telecommunications System (GTS). DSS created the subsets. Coverage and quality inferior to NCEP/NMC ADP - we recommend using DS464.0 and DS353.4.


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PERIODS: 1971-01 to 1996-12
VARIABLES:
Air TemperatureCloud Amount/FrequencyCloud BaseCloud Types
Dew Point TemperatureGeopotential HeightSea Level PressureSea Surface Temperature
Station HeightSurface PressureSurface WindsSwells
VisibilityWave HeightWave Period 
LEVELS:
Ground or water surface850 mbar700 mbar500 mbar
400 mbar300 mbar250 mbar200 mbar
150 mbar100 mbar70 mbar50 mbar
30 mbar20 mbar10 mbar 
TIMES: Every hour
TYPES: Platform Observation
SOURCES: DOD/USNAVY/FNMOC
Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center, U.S. Navy, U. S. Department of Defense
VOLUME: 34.92 GBytes
FORMATS: Binary (see dataset documentation)
CONTACT: For assistance with this dataset, please contact Gregg Walters (303-497-1218) . If the specialist is unavailable, please contact Data Help.
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