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Global Upper Air Climatic Atlas (CD-ROM)
Entry ID: gov.noaa.ncdc.C00338

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Summary
Abstract: This two-volume CD-ROM set available from the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) uses 2.5 degree gridded, upper air climatic summaries derived from the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) model analyses. It uses data from selected upper air stations from all over the world for the 12-year period (1980-1991), including individual months. The CD-ROMs present upper air ... View entire text

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

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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 Climatic Atlas (CD-ROM)
Dataset Release Date: Unknown
Dataset Release Place: Asheville, NC
Dataset Publisher: National Climatic Data Center
Data Presentation Form: multimedia presentation
Online Resource: http://ols.nndc.noaa.gov/plolstore/plsql/olstore.prodspecific?prodn...
Temporal Coverage
Start Date: 1980-01-01
Stop Date: 1995-12-31
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FIELD INVESTIGATION Ancillary Description
Quality The values provided in temporal and spatial coverage are approximate only.

Taken from the 2009-2010 Progress Report:

Variations to work plan or objectives:
One member of the research team, Dr Sharon Robinson, travelled to Casey for work on her other projects in advance of our intended arrival. She was shocked to discover that the mosses that we had planned to use ... View entire text
Access Constraints Copies of the data, including detailed readme documents are available for download from the provided URL.

However, the winter re-activation dataset is not yet publicly available, as it has not yet been published.
Use Constraints This data set conforms to the PICCCBY Attribution License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=AAS_2780 when using these data.
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IN WORK
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
Distribution
Distribution Media: HTTP
Distribution Size: 45 kb
Distribution Format: Excel, text
Fees: Free

Distribution Media: HTTP
Distribution Size: 52 kb
Distribution Format: Excel, pdf
Fees: Free
Personnel
MARILYN BALL
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone: +61 2 6125 5057
Email: marilyn.ball at anu.edu.au
Contact Address:
Australian National University
Research School of Biology
GPO Box 475
City: Canberra
Province or State: ACT
Postal Code: 2601
Country: Australia
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Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2010-07-12
Last DIF Revision Date: 2012-03-14

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