FOSDIC Marine surface and upper air observations, 1854-1961

Marine surface and upper air observations recovered from microfilm copies of cards at NCDC. In the 1960s and 1970s, NCDC stored images of selected 80-character punched card decks on microfilm (16mm) using a device known as FOSDIC (Film Optical Sensing Device for Input to Computer). FOSDIC was also used to recall the images back to digital records.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1854
    End:  1961

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1854
Temporal Range End 1961
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat N/A
Bounding Box South Lat N/A
Bounding Box West Long N/A
Bounding Box East Long N/A
Spatial Representation N/A
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links N/A
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format ASCII
Standardized Resource Format ASCII
Asset Size 808.13 MB
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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
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Metadata Contact Email rdahelp@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization NCAR Research Data Archive

Author Woodruff, Scott
Elms, Joe
Franks, Phala
Publisher Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory
Publication Date 2001-02-06
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/YEYX-4A26
Alternate Identifier ds258.4
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category oceans
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2019-04-05T11:05:02-07:00
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.rda::ds258.4
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Woodruff, Scott, Elms, Joe, Franks, Phala. (2001). FOSDIC Marine surface and upper air observations, 1854-1961. Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/YEYX-4A26. Accessed 03 October 2023.

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