International Surface Pressure Databank (ISPDv2)

The International Surface Pressure Databank (ISPD; Cram et al. 2015) is the world's largest collection of pressure observations. It has been gathered through international cooperation with data recovery facilitated by the ACRE Initiative and the other contributing organizations and assembled under the auspices of the GCOS Working Group on Surface Pressure and the WCRP/GCOS Working Group on Observational Data Sets for Reanalysis by NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL), NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), and the Climate Diagnostics Center (CDC) of the University of Colorado's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES). The ISPDv2 consists of three components: station, marine, and tropical cyclone best track pressure observations. The station component is a blend of many national and international collections.

NOTE: A newer version of this dataset, the International Surface Pressure Databank version 3, is available in RDA dataset ds132.1.  Users are recommended to access this updated dataset.



The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center and of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which are supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231 and Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725, respectively.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1768-01-01
    End:  2012-12-31

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1768-01-01
Temporal Range End 2012-12-31
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Bounding Box South Lat N/A
Bounding Box West Long N/A
Bounding Box East Long N/A
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Related Links

Related Resource #1 : The International Surface Pressure Databank: Reanalysis Intercomparison and Observations

Related Resource #2 : Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth

Related Resource #3 : NOAA ESRL 20th Century Reanalysis Homepage

Related Resource #4 : Maps displaying the locations of ISPD observations in a selected year

Related Resource #5 : 20th Century Reanalysis status mailing list (Reanalysis-20cr-notify)

Related Resource #6 : ISPD v2.2 archive at ECMWF
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Resource Format HDF5
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Asset Size 573549.875 MB
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Support for the International Surface Pressure Databank is provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (DOE INCITE) program, and Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER), and by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Program Office.
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Author Compo, G. P.
Whitaker, J. S.
Sardeshmukh, P. D.
Matsui, N.
Allan, R. J.
Yin, X.
Gleason, B. E.
Vose, R. S.
Rutledge, G.
Bessemoulin, P.
Bronnimann, S.
Brunet, M.
Crouthamel, R. I.
Grant, A. N.
Groisman, P. Y.
Jones, P. D.
Kruk, M. C.
Kruger, A. C.
Marshall, G. J.
Maugeri, M.
Mok, H. Y.
Nordli, O.
Ross, T. F.
Trigo, R. M.
Wang, X. L.
Woodruff, S. D.
Worley, S. J.
Publisher NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Publication Date 2010-08-19
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/D6SQ8XDW
Alternate Identifier d132000
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-09T01:21:01Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.gdex::d132000
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Compo, G. P., Whitaker, J. S., Sardeshmukh, P. D., Matsui, N., Allan, R. J., Yin, X., Gleason, B. E., Vose, R. S., Rutledge, G., Bessemoulin, P., Bronnimann, S., Brunet, M., Crouthamel, R. I., Grant, A. N., Groisman, P. Y., Jones, P. D., Kruk, M. C., Kruger, A. C., Marshall, G. J., Maugeri, M., Mok, H. Y., Nordli, O., Ross, T. F., Trigo, R. M., Wang, X. L., Woodruff, S. D., Worley, S. J.. (2010). International Surface Pressure Databank (ISPDv2). NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://doi.org/10.5065/D6SQ8XDW. Accessed 10 October 2025.

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