Extended Edited Synoptic Cloud Reports from Ships and Land Stations Over the Globe, 1952-2009 (NDP-026C)
- University of Arizona, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences
- University of Washington, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences
This database contains surface synoptic weather reports for the entire globe, gathered from various available data sets. The reports were processed, edited, and rewritten to provide a single dataset of individual observations of clouds, spanning the 57 years 1952-2008 for ship data and the 39 years 1971-2009 for land station data. In addition to the cloud portion of the synoptic report, each edited report also includes the associated pressure, present weather, wind, air temperature, and dew point (and sea surface temperature over oceans). This data set is called the "Extended Edited Cloud Report Archive" (EECRA). The EECRA is based solely on visual cloud observations from weather stations, reported in the WMO synoptic code (WMO, 1974). Reports must contain cloud-type information to be included in the archive. Past data sources include those from the Fleet Numerical Oceanographic Center (FNOC, 1971-1976) and the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP, 1977-1996). This update uses data from a new source, the 'Integrated Surface Database' (ISD, 1997-2009; Smith et al., 2011). Our past analyses of the EECRA identified a subset of 5388 weather stations that were determined to produce reliable day and night observations of cloud amount and type. The update contains observations only from this subset of stations. Details concerning processing, previous problems, contents, and comments are available in the archive's original documentation . The EECRA contains about 81 million cloud observations from ships and 380 million from land stations. The data files have been compressed using unix. Unix/linux users can "uncompress" or "gunzip" the files after downloading. If you're interested in the NDP-026C database, then you'll also want to explore its related data products, NDP-026D and NDP-026E.For access to the data files, click this link to the CDIAC data transition website: http://cdiac.ess-dive.lbl.gov/epubs/ndp/ndp026c/ndp026c.html
- Research Organization:
- Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem (ESS-DIVE) (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- U.S. DOE > Office of Science (SC) > Biological and Environmental Research (BER) (SC-23)
- OSTI ID:
- 1394930
- Report Number(s):
- doi:10.3334/CDIAC/CLI.NDP026C; cdiac:doi 10.3334/CDIAC/cli.ndp026.c
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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Air Temperature
Clouds
Dew Point
Pressure
Sea Surface Temperature
Weather
Wind
NDP-026C
wind speed
air temperature
change code
cloud amount
cloud base height
cloud height indicator
cloud type
day
dew point depression
hour
land/ocean indicator
latitude
longitude
month
present weather
relative lunar illuminance
sea level pressure
sea level pressure flag
sea surface temp
ship type
sky brightness indicator
solar altitude
source deck
station elevation
station number
total cloud cover
wind direction
wind speed indicator
year