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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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 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

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 11660.493 MB
Legal Constraints

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

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Resource Support Email datahelp@ucar.edu
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Distributor NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange
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Metadata Contact Email datahelp@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange

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 NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Publication Date 2006-08-16
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/VA78-8E98
Alternate Identifier d292002
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-09T01:22:59Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.gdex::d292002
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. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://doi.org/10.5065/VA78-8E98. Accessed 10 October 2025.

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