NCDC SAO Specials Dataset

This dataset contains only the GCIP/ESOP-95 National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) Surface Aviation Observation (SAO) "Special" observation surface data for the ESOP-95 domain. These are observations that are reported at off-hour times and report significant changes in conditions from the previous hourly reports. These reports can include all of the information shown in hourly SAOs, but more typically, report only portions of the data. A complete listing of the requirements to issue a "special SAO" are included in the Federal Meteorological Handbook No. 1 (1988).

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1995-04-01T00:00:00Z
    End:  1995-09-30T23:59:59Z

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 1995-09-30T23:59:59Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 40.00000
Bounding Box South Lat 31.00000
Bounding Box West Long -107.00000
Bounding Box East Long -91.00000
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links

Documentation #1 : esspeclc.txt
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format QCF3.1: Quality Control Format (QCF) (ASCII) (Long Hourly, Codiac/Y2K from Dec 1999)
Standardized Resource Format ASCII
Asset Size 22 MB
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Software Implementation Language N/A

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Author Ken Hadeen
Publisher N/A
Publication Date 2011-08-24T17:30:26
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.26023/6PT7-1YB0-KQ06
Alternate Identifier 1.004
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-07T21:47:23Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::1.004
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Ken Hadeen. (2011). NCDC SAO Specials Dataset. 1.0. https://doi.org/10.26023/6PT7-1YB0-KQ06. Accessed 31 October 2025.

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