Extended Edited Synoptic Cloud Reports Archive (EECRA) from Ships and Land Stations Over the Globe

EECRA contains surface synoptic weather reports for the entire globe, gathered from various available data sets. The reports were processed, edited, and rewritten to provide a single dataset of individual observations of clouds, spanning the 46 years 1952-1997, and later augmented with data for 11 years 1998-2008, for ship data and the 26 years 1971-1996 for land station data. In addition to the cloud portion of the synoptic report, each edited report also includes the associated pressure, present weather, wind, air temperature, and dew point (and sea surface temperature over oceans).

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Questions? Email Resource Support Contact:

  • Zaihua Ji
    zji@ucar.edu
    UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive

Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1952
    End:  2008

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1952
Temporal Range End 2008
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 90
Bounding Box South Lat -90
Bounding Box West Long -180
Bounding Box East Long 180
Spatial Representation N/A
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links

Related Resource #1 : Climate Atlas of Clouds Over Land and Ocean at the University of Washington

Related Resource #2 : Documentation and Data at CDIAC
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format ASCII
Standardized Resource Format ASCII
Asset Size 11660 MB
Legal Constraints

Use of this dataset is subject to UCAR's Terms of Use, except that commercial use is generally not prohibited.
Access Constraints Registration on the RDA web site is a requirement for access to the data.
Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name Zaihua Ji
Resource Support Email zji@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive
Distributor NCAR Research Data Archive
Metadata Contact Name N/A
Metadata Contact Email rdahelp@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization NCAR Research Data Archive

Author Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center, U.S. Navy, U. S. Department of Defense
Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Washington
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona
National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Publisher Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory
Publication Date 2006-08-16
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/VA78-8E98
Alternate Identifier ds292.2
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2024-01-03T15:11:33-07:00
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.rda::ds292.2
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center, U.S. Navy, U. S. Department of Defense, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce. (2006). Extended Edited Synoptic Cloud Reports Archive (EECRA) from Ships and Land Stations Over the Globe. Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/VA78-8E98. Accessed 23 April 2024.

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