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Global Upper Air CARDS (DSI-6310)
Entry ID: gov.noaa.ncdc.C00553

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Summary
Abstract: Global Upper Air CARDS is historical digital data set DSI-6310 archived at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). This is meteorological upper air data. This is a historical upper air data set. Data is global for the period 1948-1963. DSI-6310 was included in the larger Comprehensive Aerological Data Set (CARDS) Upper Air data set (C00503), DSI-6305, which was quality controlled as it was ... View entire text

Purpose: To make a wide range of climatic data available to researchers and the public.

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION: data set

CURRENTNESS REFERENCE: Ground Condition

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Geographic Coverage
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Spatial coordinates   
  N: 90.0   S: -90.0   E: 180.0   W: -180.0

Data Set Citation
Dataset Originator/Creator: National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Dataset Title: Global Upper Air CARDS (DSI-6310)
Dataset Release Date: Unknown
Data Presentation Form: tabular digital data
Online Resource: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/cab/igra/index...
Temporal Coverage
Start Date: 1948-05-01
Stop Date: 1963-12-31
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Platform
GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS Ancillary Description
FIELD INVESTIGATION Ancillary Description
Quality See Readme files in the download files of the child metadata records for details of data quality and equipment down-time.

Note - depths provided in spatial coverage are referenced back to sea level.
The minimum depth asl refers to the height of the ice surface.
Access Constraints Currently data are less than two years old, so is not publicly available.
Use Constraints This data set conforms to the PICCCBY Attribution License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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Data Set Progress
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Originating Center
Data Center
Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia Supplemental Info
Data Center URL: http://data.aad.gov.au

Data Center Personnel
Name: DATA OFFICER AADC
Phone: +61 3 6232 3244
Fax: +61 3 6232 3351
Email: metadata at aad.gov.au
Contact Address:
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
City: Kingston
Province or State: Tasmania
Postal Code: 7050
Country: Australia
Personnel
IAN ALLISON
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone: +61 3 6226 7648
Fax: +61 3 6226 7650
Email: ian.allison at aad.gov.au
Contact Address:
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
City: Kingston
Province or State: Tasmania
Postal Code: 7050
Country: Australia
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Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2004-10-04
Last DIF Revision Date: 2008-04-10

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