International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS) Release 3.0 - Monthly Summary Groups (MSG)

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. R3.0 therefore includes changes designed to enable 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. The ICOADS Monthly Summaries Group (MSG) are designed to store both 1-degree, and 2-degree, latitude x longitude monthly summaries (the format also has the capability, unused at present, to store 0.5-degree data). MSG products are currently available covering the global domain (1-degree and/or 2-degree boxes) and an equatorial domain (1-degree), with 2-degree products available from 1800 forward and 1-degree products available only for 1960 forward. Six "groups" of variables make up MSG. The variables comprise the 19 variables that were produced for COADS Release 1 (groups 3-7) plus three additional variables that make up group 9: the cube of the wind speed, W**3, as well as the zonal and meridional contributions to the latent heat flux, U(QS-Q) and V(QS-Q).

Resources

Name Format Description Link
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 NOAA website containing all the ICOADS information. http://icoads.noaa.gov
0 Landing page for the dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/metadata/geoportal/rest/metadata/item/gov.noaa.ncdc:C00969/html
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 Direct download for dataset files. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/marine/msg/
0 This document provides a technical description of the Monthly Summary Groups (MSG) format. http://icoads.noaa.gov/e-doc/msg
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
33 International Maritime Meteorological Archive (IMMA) Format http://icoads.noaa.gov/e-doc/imma/R3.0-imma1.pdf
0 Article in International Journal of Climatology on the new ICOADS Release 3.0. 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

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  • buoys
  • ships
  • icoads
  • vertical location
  • ocean pressure
  • sea surface
  • sea state
  • nesdis
  • sea surface temperature
  • visual observations
  • wind vanes
  • temperature/humidity sensors
  • in situ/laboratory instruments
  • oceans
  • water temperature
  • surface winds
  • sea level pressure
  • ocean weather stations
  • atmosphere
  • noaa
  • coastal marine network
  • global ocean
  • c-man
  • floats
  • ocean temperature
  • in situ ocean-based platforms
  • ocean waves
  • pressure/height meters
  • thermometers
  • ocean winds
  • hourly - < daily
  • ocean platform/ocean stations
  • barometers
  • icebergs
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • earth science
  • geographic region
  • drifting buoys
  • sea ice
  • daily - < weekly
  • surface pressure
  • 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
  • hygrometers
  • wind waves
  • atmospheric pressure
  • ice edges
  • wave height
  • atmospheric - surface - pressure
  • ocean platforms
  • wave speed/direction
  • wave period
  • moorings
  • atmospheric - surface - wind speed and direction
  • point resolution
  • national centers for environmental information
  • dart
  • deep-ocean assessment and reporting of tsunamis
  • pressure tendency

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