"In January 1981, a cooperative project was planned to create a consistent and easily used historical record of surface marine data for the period 1854-1979 (Woodruff, et al., 1987). Members of this project were the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), Environmental Research Laboratories, the cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. The culmination of four years of work resulted in the Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (COADS) (Slutz, et al., 1985, hereafter referred to as COADS Release 1)."
"One of the many products of COADS was a unique set of surface marine ship reports in a modified TD-1129 format covering the period 1854-1979 (TD-1170). This document provides information only for COADS pre-1970s surface marine data. A similar COADS product covering the period 1970-1979 (TD-1129) is described in a Marine Data Users Reference, 1970-current (NCDC, 1986). Data Prior to 1854 is contained in the Maury collection."
"Products now available in a first release from this Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (COADS) include fully quality-controlled (trimmed) reports and summaries. Global marine data observed during 1854-1979, primarily by ships-of-opportunity, have been collected, edited, and summarized statistically for each month of the period, using 2 degree latitude x 2 degree longitude boxes. Each of the 70 million unique reports contain 28 elements of weather, position, etc., as well as flags indicating which observations were statistically trimmed. The summaries give l4 statistics, such as the median and mean, for each of eight observed variables of air and sea surface temperatures, wind, pressure, humidity, and cloudiness, plus ll derived variables. Relatively noisy (untrimmed) individual reports and summaries (giving l4 statistics for each of the eight observed variables) are available for investigators who prefer their own quality control. Two other report forms, inventories, and decade-month summaries are among the other products available. FORTRAN 77 software available to help read 'packed binary' data products and processing details, such as the method of identifying duplicate reports, are also available."
"The Compressed Marine Reports contain 28 frequently used parameters, omitting individual ship numbers. Statistical outliers are flagged. The entire set is stored in binary format. Refer to COADS Release 1, Supplement E, for further details. The Long Marine Reports contain the complete observational record of the platform which contributed the data, as well as quality flags. The data are stored in a hybrid format of packed binary and character. Further information on format is available in COADS Release 1, Supplement F. Character-formatted Long Marine Reports, a subset of the Long Marine Reports, are stored in ASCII character format, more fully described in Supplement I of COADS, Release 1."
"The Decadal and Monthly Summaries are averaged by decade and month over either 10 x 10 or 2 x 2 latitude-longitude boxes. In trimmed versions of these summaries statistical outliers and data located over land have been removed. The data are stored in packed binary format. Further details can be obtained from COADS Release 1, Supplement A."
"Monthly Summary Trimmed and Untrimmed Groups (the former is the only kind presented here in LDEO -- AK) contain fewer variables and fewer statistical parameters than the monthly summaries. The sort is by year, month and 2 degree latitude-longitude box. This product is the most compact and generally the most convenient to use for studies involving only a few variables and statistical parameters. COADS Release 1, Supplement B gives further details."
Temporal Coverage:
From: 1854-01 TO: 1992-12
Geographic Coverage:
Southwest Extent: 90S,180W Northeast Extent: 90N,180E
Source:
BUOYS
SHIPS>Ships-of-Opportunity, Buoys, etc.
Sensor:
XBT>External Bathythermographs
Campaign/Project:
COADS>Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set
Discipline, Subdiscipline:
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEAN
Location Keyword:
GLOBAL
SEA SURFACE
Parameter Group, Parameter:
ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE
air temperature
ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS > PRESSURE
sea level pressure
ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS > WINDS
wind direction
OCEAN DYNAMICS > TEMPERATURE
sea surface temperature
General Keywords:
AIR-SEA INTERACTION
CLIMATOLOGY
COADS
GRID DATA
MARINE
MONTHLY DATA
PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE
STATISTICS
SURFACE
WIND STRESS
Revision Date: 1994-06-09
Archive:
JPL/PHY OCEAN>Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center
Contact: USER SERVICE OFFICE,
MS 300-323
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA 91109
USA
Electronic Mail: INTERNET> PODAAC@SHRIMP.JPL.NASA.GOV
NSI/DECNET> SHRIMP::PODAAC
OMNET> PO.DAAC.JPL
Phone: (818) 354-0906
(818) 393-6720 (fax)
Archive:
NCAR>National Center for Atmospheric Research
Data Set ID: CMR.5
DST
DSU
DSUL
Contact: JOSEPH, DENNIS
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Data Support Section
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307
USA
Electronic Mail: INTERNET> JOSEPH@BIERSTADT.SCD.UCAR.EDU
Phone: 303-497-1216
Archive:
NCDS>NASA Climate Data System
Data Set ID: COADS_MSTG
Contact: OLSEN, LOLA
GSFC Distributed Active Archive Center
NASA/GSFC
Code 902.2
Greenbelt, MD 20771
USA
Electronic Mail: INTERNET> OLSEN@NSSDCA.GSFC.NASA.GOV
NSI/DECNET> NCF::OLSEN
Phone: (301) 286-9760
FTS 888-9760
Archive:
NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC>National Climatic Data Center, NOAA
Data Set ID: TD-1169
TD-1170
Contact: ROSS, THOMAS
NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC
Federal Building
37 Battery Park Avenue
Asheville, NC 28801-2733
USA
Electronic Mail: INTERNET> TROSS@NCDC.NOAA.GOV
Phone: (704) 271-4994
Investigator: JENNE, ROY
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307-3000
USA
Electronic Mail: OMNET> R.JENNE
Phone: (303) 497-1215
Tech Contact: WOODRUFF, SCOTT
Climate Research Program
NOAA/ERL (R/E/R6) NCAR
325 Broadway
Boulder CO, 80303
USA
Phone: (303) 497-6747
Slutz, R.J., S.J. Lubker, J.D. Hiscox, S.D. Woodruff, R.L. Jenne, P.M. Steurer, and J.D. Elms, 1985: 'Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set; Release 1', Climate Research Program, Boulder, Colorado.*************************************************************************** Original entry from NASA
Entry Author: SMITH, ELIZABETH A. Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography Crittenton Hall Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA 23529 USA Electronic Mail: INTERNET> lizsmith@kuroshio.ccpo.odu.edu Phone: (804) 683-5550 (FAX) (804) 683-5567 Information in the entry provided by NODS *****************************************************************
1. Data Center: NCAR>National Center for Atmospheric Research
2. Data Center: NCDS>NASA Climate Data System
3. Campaign: COADS>Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set
4. Sensor: BATHYTHERMOGRAPHS>External Bathythermographs