International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS)
Data and Documentation
ICOADS Release 3.0 (R3.0) was completed in June 2016 with data covering 1662-2014, plus preliminary data and products for 2015 to near-real-time
Documentation
Observations
Surface marine observational records from ships, buoys, and other platform types
Access from NCAR
- Global archive (year-month) files in IMMA format
- User interface for spatial, temporal, and parameter subsetting
- Data output: ASCII format
Access from NOAA/NCEI
- Global archive (year-month) files in IMMA format
Note: these are "enhanced" data only, see Documentation
- Data output: ASCII format
Access from NOAA/ESRL/PSD
- Near-real-time observations based on NCEP GTS (limited product covering 1991-Feb. 2011; production at PSD ended in Mar. 2011)
- Data output: ASCII format (abbreviated)
Monthly Summary Statistics
Ten statistics (such as the mean and median) are calculated for each of 22 observed and derived variables, using 2° latitude x 2° longitude boxes back to 1800 (and 1°x1° boxes since 1960)
Access from NCAR
- Global archive (year-month) files in binary format
- User interface for spatial, temporal, and parameter subsetting
- Data output: ASCII format
Access and Visualization from NOAA/ESRL/PSD
- Time-series of variables and statistics in netCDF format
- User interface for spatial and temporal subsets, and visualization
- Data output: netCDF format
- Near-real-time statistics based on NCEP GTS (limited product covering 1991-Feb. 2011; production at PSD ended in Mar. 2011)
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