ICOADS Release 3.0: a major update to the historical marine climate record

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 2211-2232

  Freeman, Eric ^a,b   Woodruff, Scott D ^a,c   Worley, Steven J ^d   Lubker, Sandra J ^a   Kent, Elizabeth C ^e   Angel, William E ^a   Berry, David I ^e   Brohan, Philip ^f   Eastman, Ryan ^g   Gates, Lydia ^h   Gloeden, Wolfgang ^h   Ji, Zaihua ^d   Lawrimore, Jay ^a   Rayner, Nick A ^f   Rosenhagen, Gudrun ^h   Smith, Shawn R ⁱ  

^a Earth System Research Laborator   (United States)

^b STG Inc   (United States)

^c Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science ^*  (United States)

^d NationalCenter forAtmosphericResearch   (United States)

^e NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^f Hadley Centre   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^h Deutscher Wetterdiens   (Germany)

ⁱ FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

buoy data; humidity; marine meteorological data; metadata; ocean; sea level pressure; sea surface temperature; ship data

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; METADATA; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

BUOY DATA; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; OCEAN; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; BUOY SYSTEM; DATA QUALITY; DATA SET; HUMIDITY; METADATA; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84979047279     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4775     Document Type: Article

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