International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS) Release 3.0 Final, Individual Reports in the International Maritime Meteorological Archive Format version 1 (IMMA1)

Description

This dataset, the International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS), is the most widely-used freely available collection of surface marine observations, with over 455 million individual marine reports spanning 1662-2014-each containing the observations and metadata reported from a given ship, buoy, coastal platform, or oceanographic instrument, providing data for the construction of gridded analyses of sea surface temperature, estimates of air-sea interaction and other meteorological variables. ICOADS observations are assimilated into all major atmospheric, oceanic and coupled reanalyses, further widening its impact. R3, therefore includes changes designed to enable the effective exchange of information describing data quality between ICOADS, reanalysis centres, data set developers, scientists, and the public. These user-driven innovations include the assignment of a unique identifier (UID) to each marine report to enable tracing of observations, linking with reports and improved data sharing. Other revisions and extensions of the ICOADS' International Maritime Meteorological Archive (IMMA) common data format incorporate new near-surface oceanographic data elements and cloud parameters. Many new input data sources have been assembled, and updates and improvements to existing data sources, or removal of erroneous data, made. Additionally, these data are offered in NetCDF with useful metadata added in global and variable attributes of each file to make the NetCDF self-contained. This dataset includes 2 versions of the official ICOADS Release 3 dataset: 1) the 'Total' product (denoted by 'T' in the filename) which contains all duplicates and is used for verification and research purposes; and 2) 'Final' R3, with duplicates removed, where all reports have been compared for matching dates, id's and elements observed and the best duplicate retained as the final report.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 Landing page for the dataset. https://doi.org/10.7289/V5CZ3562
0 International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS) Technical Information http://icoads.noaa.gov
0 Overview of the GCOS Essential Climate Variables. https://public.wmo.int/en/programmes/global-climate-observing-system/essential-climate-variables
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 NCAR's website for ICOADS R3.0 https://doi.org/10.5065/D6ZS2TR3
0 Direct download links for dataset files. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/international-comprehensive-ocean-atmosphere/v3/archive/final-untrim/
33 International Maritime Meteorological Archive (IMMA) Format https://icoads.noaa.gov/e-doc/imma/R3.0-imma1.pdf
0 Current dataset landing page with general information and access links for that dataset. https://doi.org/10.25921/8mgh-j620
0 Data in this archival information package are not currently available for public download from NCEI. Please contact NCEI Information Services directly for access to these data. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
33 Documentation of the dataset including a data description, format layout and definitions. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/cdo/documentation/marinedoc.pdf
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 Freeman, E., S.D. Woodruff, S.J. Worley, S.J. Lubker, E.C. Kent, W.E. Angel, D.I . Berry, P. Brohan, R. Eastman, L. Gates, W. Gloeden, Z. Ji, J. Lawrimore, N.A. Rayner, G. Rosenhagen, and S.R. Smith, 2017: ICOADS Release 3.0: A major update to the historical marine climate record. Int. J. Climatol. (CLIMAR-IV Special Issue), 37, 2211-2237. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.4775 https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.4775
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords

Tags

  • buoys
  • ships
  • icoads
  • vertical location
  • ocean pressure
  • sea surface
  • sea state
  • nesdis
  • sea surface temperature
  • triton
  • visual observations
  • oceans
  • water temperature
  • surface winds
  • sea level pressure
  • ocean weather stations
  • atmosphere
  • noaa
  • coastal marine network
  • c-man
  • floats
  • wind vane
  • ocean temperature
  • ocean waves
  • ndbc moored buoy
  • thermometers
  • ocean winds
  • hourly - < daily
  • barometers
  • icebergs
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • earth science
  • drifting buoys
  • sea ice
  • surface pressure
  • ocean
  • doc/noaa/nesdis/ncei
  • oceanic - surface - sea-surface temperature
  • atmospheric pressure measurements
  • aneroid pressure sensor
  • swells
  • 1 minute - < 1 hour
  • atmospheric - surface - air temperature
  • sea ice concentration
  • anemometers
  • international comprehensive ocean-atmosphere data set
  • tao
  • hygrometers
  • wind waves
  • atmospheric pressure
  • ice edges
  • wave height
  • atmospheric - surface - pressure
  • ocean platforms
  • wave speed/direction
  • wave period
  • triangle trans-ocean buoy network
  • moorings
  • atmospheric - surface - wind speed and direction
  • point resolution
  • national centers for environmental information
  • pressure tendency
  • tropical atmosphere ocean

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