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Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) Surface Network (GSN)

Entry ID: gov.noaa.ncdc.C00614

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Summary

Abstract: The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) provides an operational framework for integrating, and enhancing as needed, observational systems of participating countries and organizations into a comprehensive system focussed on the requirements for climate issues. GCOS builds upon, and works in partnership with, other existing and developing observing systems such as the Global Ocean Observing ... System, the Global Terrestrial Observing System, and the Global Observing System and Global Atmospheric Watch of the World Meteorological Organization. GCOS was established in 1992 to ensure that the observations and information needed to address climate-related issues are obtained and made available to all potential users. It is co-sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Council for Science (ICSU). GCOS is intended to be a long-term, user-driven operational system capable of providing the comprehensive observations required for monitoring the climate system, for detecting and attributing climate change, for assessing the impacts of climate variability and change, and for supporting research toward improved understanding, modeling and prediction of the climate system. It addresses the total climate system including physical, chemical and biological properties, and atmospheric, oceanic, hydrologic, cryospheric and terrestrial processes. Parameters included in the GCOS are mean daily temperature, daily maximum temperature, daily minimum temperature, mean daily station pressure, mean daily station pressure corrected to sea level, total daily daily precipitation, mean monthly temperature, mean monthly maximum temperature, mean monthly minimum temperature, mean monthly station pressure, mean monthly station pressure corrected to sea level, and total monthly precipitation. Station history data is also included in the GCOS. Parameters associated with station history metadata are station identification, station name, member name, dates when changes occurred (year-month-day), latitude, longitude, elevation, observation schedule and procedures, types of instruments used for observations, height of instruments above ground, methods used to calculate mean, or average, environment within 10 meters of the instruments, and land use in 10 square kilometers around the station.

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 Climate Observing System (GCOS) Surface Network (GSN)

Dataset Release Date: Unknown

Data Presentation Form: tabular digital data

Online Resource: http://cdo.ncdc.noaa.gov/pls/plclimprod/cdomain.abbrev2id?datasetab...

Location Keywords

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > GLOBAL

Science Keywords

ATMOSPHERE > AIR QUALITY > VISIBILITY

ATMOSPHERE > AIR QUALITY

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

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Instrument

CURRENT METERS

ICE AUGERS

Quality The data is in publications and held at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles / Unite d'Oceanographie Chimique Belgium and National Institute for Water and Atmosphere, New Zealand, and Univerity of Otago. Please contact the investigators for more information.

Data Set Progress

IN WORK

Data Center

Antarctica New Zealand, New Zealand Antarctic Institute, New Zealand

Data Center URL: http://www.antarcticanz.govt.nz/

Data Center Personnel
Name: SHULAMIT GORDON Phone: +64 3 358 0200 Fax: +64 3 358 0211 Email: s.gordon at antarcticanz.govt.nz Contact Address: Antarctica New Zealand Private Bag 4745 City: Christchurch Country: New Zealand

Personnel

TIM HASKELL

Role: INVESTIGATOR

Phone: +64 4 931 3000

Fax: +64 4 931 3754

Email: t.haskell at irl.cri.nz

Contact Address:

Industrial Research Ltd.

Gracefield Road

PO BOX 31310

City: Lower Hutt

Country: New Zealand

PAT J LANGHORNE

Role: INVESTIGATOR

Phone: +64 3 479 7787

Fax: +64 3 479 0964

Email: pjl at physics.otago.ac.nz

Contact Address:

Department of Physics

University of Otago

PO BOX 56

City: Dunedin

Postal Code: 9054

Country: New Zealand

JEAN-LOUIS TISON

Role: INVESTIGATOR

Contact Address:

Université Libre de Bruxelles

City: Brussels

Country: Belgium

Publications/References

Leonard, G. H., P. J. Langhorne, M. J. M. Williams, R. Vennell, C. R. Purdie, D.E. Dempsey, T. G. Haskell and R.D. Frew. Evolution of supercooling under coastal Antarctic sea ice during winter. Antarctic Science doi:10.1017/S0954102011000265 (2011)

Smith, I.J., Langhorne, P.J., Frew, R.D. and Haskell, T. G. Sea ice thicknesses near ice shelves: determining growth rates. Submitted to Cold Regions Science and Technology.

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2012-05-29

Last DIF Revision Date: 2012-06-01

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