As the result of a US project starting in 1981, available global surface marine data from the late 18th century to date have been assembled, quality controlled, and made widely available to the international research community in products of the Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (COADS).
A new name, International COADS (ICOADS) was agreed in 2002 to recognize the multinational input to the blended observational database and other benefits gained from extensive international collaboration, while maintaining continuity of identity with COADS, which has been widely used and referenced.
The original COADS project, and the continuing US contribution toward the new international database, ICOADS, is the result of a cooperative project between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)--specifically its Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL), its National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES, conducted jointly with the University of Colorado)--and the National Science Foundation's National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The NOAA portion of ICOADS is partially funded by the NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO).
Scott Woodruff is currently CDC's Principal Investigator on the project, and
has been involved since its inception, working with NCAR and NCDC PI's, and
other US and international organizations, to update and maintain ICOADS.
NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center
Document maintained by Scott Woodruff (Scott.D.Woodruff@noaa.gov)
Updated: Sep 24, 2007 10:35:46 MDT
http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/people/scott.d.woodruff/icoads.html