Surface Airways Observations (SAO) Hourly Data (1965-1981) (CDMP)

Description

The dataset consists primarily of U.S. surface airways observations (SAO) data beginning in 1965 and extending through 1981. Note that a few stations have already had certain years within this 1965-81 period re-keyed as hourly. For these stations, only a subset of the period was keyed. In addition, other stations did not have data keyed at all during this period, or during the periods immediately before or after the 1965-81 range. These stations data have been keyed to as thoroughly as possible complete their entire period of record back to July, 1948. The major data variables are as follows: WBAN Identification Station Number, observational type, ceiling and cloud, visibility, present weather, temperature, relative humidity, wind, pressure and precipitation. The observations are generally recorded for the 24 hour period midnight to midnight. The keying format was designed to reflect the data as entered on the page to make keying easier for the key entry personnel, who were not trained meteorological technicians. The "raw" observations which comprise this dataset will be quality checked to include data adjustments and converted to NCDC's Integrated Surface Hourly (ISH) format.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 Landing page for the dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/metadata/geoportal/rest/metadata/item/gov.noaa.ncdc:C01309/html
33 td3853.pdf https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/documentlibrary/tddoc/td3853.pdf
0 Web page describing the program that created this dataset https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/climate-information/research-programs/climate-database-modernization-program
0 NCEI home page with information, data access and contact information. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov
0 Keyed data from this collection were incorporated into the Integrated Surface Database. https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/isd
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 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
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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  • cloud properties
  • dew point temperature
  • wind direction
  • national climatic data center
  • atmospheric temperature
  • nesdis
  • cloud fraction
  • surface winds
  • atmosphere
  • air quality
  • noaa
  • air temperature
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • visibility
  • earth science
  • doc/noaa/nesdis/ncei
  • wind speed
  • atmospheric pressure measurements
  • atmospheric pressure
  • doc/noaa/nesdis/ncdc
  • clouds
  • atmospheric winds
  • cloud height
  • surface temperature
  • national centers for environmental information

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