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Marine surface data are segregated from Global Telecommunication
System (GTS) data stream at the National Center for Environmental
Prediction (NCEP). The GTS records have global distribution and are
from ships, buoys, and other platforms at frequencies native to each
respective observing system. The data include many parameters from
complete ship surface meteorological observations (wind, atmospheric
pressure and and temperature, cloudiness, sea surface temperature,
etc.) to limited variables from drifting buoy observations (sea
surface temperature and atmospheric pressure). Beginning in March
1997 these data have been collected and archived primarily to
support the development of the International Comprehensive
Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS). Periodically, the GTS data are
processed, quality assurance checked, combined with other data
sources, and included in ICOADS.
These data may be suitable for some very specific studies, but it
is generally recommended that ICOADS be used instead. The ICOADS
observations [http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds540.0/] and ICOADS
monthly summary statistics [http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds540.1/]
are also available, as is much more information on the ICOADS
project website [http://icoads.noaa.gov/]
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