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Ocean station vessel observations

Surface observations, some XBT profiles, and some sub-surface station data from permanent observing ocean ships. Earliest data is 1945 and latest data is 1991. Added in June 2006 are station and line P profile data extracted from WOD05 by Boyer.

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PERIODS:

1945 to 1991

VARIABLES:

Air Temperature	Cloud Amount/Frequency	Dew Point Temperature	Humidity
Icebergs	Salinity	Sea Level Pressure	Sea Surface Temperature
Surface Winds	Swells	Visibility	Wave Height
Wave Period	Wave Speed/Direction

LEVELS:

Ground or water surface

TYPES:

Platform Observations

COVERAGE:

SOURCES:

DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC/OCL

Ocean Climate Laboratory, National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce

DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC

National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce

UCO/CIRES

Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado

U-BRIS/GGY

School of Geographic Sciences, University of Bristol, United Kingdom

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 ds535.0."

VOLUME:

1.09 GBytes

DATA FORMATS:

Binary (see dataset documentation), ASCII (see dataset documentation)

CONTACT:

For assistance with this dataset, please contact Steve Worley (303-497-1248) . If the specialist is unavailable, please contact Data Help.

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