U.S. Navy Declassified Surface and Upper Air Data

The U.S. Navy has declassified certain surface land and ship as well as some ship upper air observations for 1985-1996, excluding 1992. These observations are primarily taken by U.S. Navy ships and/or come from intelligence gathering in support of military operations globally.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1985
    End:  1996

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1985
Temporal Range End 1996
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 WMO_BUFR
Standardized Resource Format BUFR
Asset Size 493.00 MB
Legal Constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Access Constraints None
Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name Bob Dattore
Resource Support Email dattore@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization NSF NCAR - Geoscience Data Exchange
Distributor NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange
Metadata Contact Name N/A
Metadata Contact Email datahelp@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange

Author Marine Meteorology Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, U.S. Navy, U. S. Department of Defense
Publisher NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Publication Date 2021-12-06
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Not Assigned
Alternate Identifier d531000
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-03T00:45:10Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.gdex::d531000
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Marine Meteorology Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, U.S. Navy, U. S. Department of Defense. (2021). U.S. Navy Declassified Surface and Upper Air Data. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d531000/. Accessed 07 October 2025.

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