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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 Temperature	Cloud Amount/Frequency	Cloud Base	Cloud Types
Dew Point Temperature	Geopotential Height	Sea Level Pressure	Sea Surface Temperature
Station Height	Surface Pressure	Surface Winds	Swells
Visibility	Wave Height	Wave Period

LEVELS:

Ground or water surface	850 mbar	700 mbar	500 mbar
400 mbar	300 mbar	250 mbar	200 mbar
150 mbar	100 mbar	70 mbar	50 mbar
30 mbar	20 mbar	10 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

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 ds465.1."

VOLUME:

34.92 GBytes

DATA 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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