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ICOADS Input Data Sources

This dataset is comprised of various input datasets used to develop ICOADS. Some files are in original native format and other are in the ICOADS binary formats. Note, these data files are not recommended for general use. Individual observations and monthly summary statistics in either a 1-degree by 1-degree or 2-degree by 2-degree latitude by longitude boxes are the recommended user data products. Much more information about ICOADS is available at the project website.

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VARIABLES:

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

LEVELS:

Ground or water surface

TYPES:

Platform Observations

SOURCES:

DOC/NOAA/OAR/CDC

Climate Diagnostics Center, OAR, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce

RELATED SITES:

ICOADS project website

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 ds539.5."

VOLUME:

113.99 GBytes

DATA FORMATS:

Binary (see dataset documentation)

RELATED DATASETS:

ds540.0 - International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS Release 2.5), Global Marine Surface Observations
ds540.1 - International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS 2.4), Global Marine Monthly Summaries

CONTACT:

For assistance with this dataset, please contact Steve Worley (303-497-1248) or Doug Schuster (303-497-1216) . If the specialist is unavailable, please contact Data Help.

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