AFCCC Historical Surface Weather Observation Database (DSI-9966)

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Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: AFCCC - Air Force Combat Climatology Center (AFWA)

Publication_Date: 20060915

Title: AFCCC Historical Surface Weather Observation Database (DSI-9966)

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Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Digital database

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Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Asheville, NC

Publisher: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC > National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce

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Description:

Abstract:

The Historical surface weather observation database (HSWOD) is a digital dataset archived by the National Climatic Data center (NCDC). This database has been developed by the Air Force Combat Climatology Center in Asheville, NC and serves as a replacement for the DATSAV3 formatted DSI-9956 (C00442). This new database is a CSV formatted database that is easily viewed in spreadsheets and is easily integrated into the Integrated Surface Daily (ISD) dataset. As of this writing (October 2007) the plan is to overlap the two databases (DATSAV3 and HSWOD) through the end of 2007. At that time (January 2008) DATSAV3 will no longer be active and the HSWOD will be fully integrated into the ISD. The HSWOD contains worldwide observations (synoptic, airways, METAR, synoptic ship) for approximately 13,000 sites. All weather elements transmitted are retained; in some cases computed/derived values are incorporated into the record. Support DoD projects. SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION: data set Fees, if applicable, are displayed on the web page for obtaining these data; fees are also dependent on customer order specifications. Please contact NCDC for further information on fees and terms for retrieving these data. CURRENTNESS REFERENCE: ground condition

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Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 19010101

Ending_Date: Unknown

Currentness_Reference:Unknown

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed

Spatial_Domain:

Description_of_Geographic_Extent:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -180.0

East_Bounding_Coordinate: 180.0

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 90.0

South_Bounding_Coordinate: -90.0

Keywords:

Theme:

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Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ANCILLARY KEYWORDS

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Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > PRESSURE THICKNESS

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SEA LEVEL PRESSURE

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SURFACE PRESSURE

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > MAXIMUM/MINIMUM TEMPERATURE

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > TEMPERATURE TENDENCY

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > DEW POINT TEMPERATURE

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND CHILL

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD PROPERTIES > CLOUD FREQUENCY

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD PROPERTIES > CLOUD CEILING

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD PROPERTIES > CLOUD HEIGHT

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD TYPES

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD PROPERTIES > CLOUD VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > FREEZING RAIN

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > HAIL

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION RATE

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Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > SLEET

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > SNOW

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Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > WIND WAVES

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Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND TENDENCY

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > DEW POINT TEMPERATURE

Theme_Keyword: METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS

Theme_Keyword: BUOYS

Theme_Keyword: SHIPS

Theme_Keyword: ALTIMETERS

Theme_Keyword: ANEMOMETERS

Theme_Keyword: AWS > AUTOMATED WEATHER SYSTEM

Theme_Keyword: BAROMETERS

Theme_Keyword: HUMIDITY SENSORS

Theme_Keyword: HYGROMETERS

Theme_Keyword: PRESSURE SENSORS

Theme_Keyword: RAIN GAUGES

Theme_Keyword: TEMPERATURE SENSORS

Theme_Keyword: THERMOMETERS

Theme_Keyword: WIND VANES

Theme_Keyword: CEILOMETERS

Theme_Keyword: SUNSHINE RECORDERS

Theme_Keyword: VISUAL OBSERVATIONS

Theme_Keyword: ESIP > EARTH SCIENCE INFORMATION PARTNERS PROGRAM

Theme_Keyword: Cryosphere > Snow/ice

Theme_Keyword: Hydrosphere > Snow/ice

Theme_Keyword: Gosic

Theme_Keyword: G3os/

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Theme_Keyword: ELEVATION

Theme_Keyword: OCEANS

Theme_Keyword: ENGLISH

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: GCMD

Place_Keyword: GEOGRAPHIC REGION > GLOBAL

Access_Constraints: ACCESS CONSTRAINTS: Access through AFCCC is limited to DoD agencies and their contractors. All other requests are filled through the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. DISTRIBUTION LIABILITY: Every effort has been made to ensure that these data are accurate and reliable within the limits of current NOAA quality control procedures. NOAA can only certify that the data provided to its customers is an authentic copy of the records which were accepted for inclusion in NOAA archives. NOAA cannot assume liability for any damages caused by any errors or omissions in the data, nor as a result of the failure of the data to function on a particular system. NOAA makes no warranty, expressed or implied, nor does the fact of distribution constitute such a warranty.

Use_Constraints:

Acknowledgement of the Data Originator when using the Data Item as a source.

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

LOGICAL CONSISTENCY REPORT: Automated checks are applied to the data during the ingest process before the data are written off to the archive (DATSAV3) flat file format and then loaded into the Surface Historical data base. There are three types of quality control applied to the data. The initial is validation of individual observations and is applied as the data is received. The second incorporates synoptic decode algorithms and various other functions as described below and is also run hourly as data are received. The third consists of continuity checks over time and consequently is run once a day. The initial Quality Control validates the data against the master station catalog, checks to see if the station is in our catalog and adds latitude and longitude where missing (if it is listed in the master station catalog). The second phase of the QC (QC_RAW) incorporates a variety of functions, the largest portion of which is decoding the additive portion of the synoptic observation. Its other roles are merging different types (i.e. METAR, SYNOPTIC) of observations that come in for the same station for the same time, removing duplicate observations, distinguishing record observations from special observations, rounding record observation times to the nearest whole hour where applicable, and calculating/correcting ceilings. The daily checks validate observations in three ways. It performs gross limit checks on specific elements within the observation. It performs intra-observation checks to see if elements within the same observation are consistent. It also performs inter-observation checks for consistency and continuity between different observations from the same station. A detailed description of the DAILY ALGORITHMS 27 Nov 95 (updated Dec 2001) WIND ALGORITHMS 1. Wind direction: If wind_dir not = 0-360 or 990 or 999, then set = missing. 2. Wind direction: If wind_dir not = 0 and wind_spd = 0 and wind_gust = 0 or 9999, then set wind_dir = 0. 3. Wind speed: If wind_spd not 0- COMPLETENESS REPORT: Periods of record vary from station to station. The earliest station data dates back to January of 1901. New data are added to the dataset each month. There are over 22,000 stations loaded in the tables. Long periods of record do not necessarily end at the current time. No reasonable data are excluded from the dataset during the load process. The Oracle tables are set up to include all the surface data from the AFCCC archive file that is created for each month: LINEAGE/PROCESS STEP: PROCESS DESCRIPTION: Quality fields have been established for each meteorological element in the data base. Five quality flags are available for use, but only four are currently used by AFCCC. A quality flag of 0 = No check, 1 = Good, 2 = Suspect, 3 = Erroneous (not used by AFCCC, because if we determine it is bad, we remove it), 4=Calculated and 5=Removed. During the initial load of the data into the data base, a large number of stations that shared the same latitude and longitude were identified. Value judgments were made for each station and only one station per latitude and longitude combination was loaded into the tables. Any station data that could not be loaded because it shared the same latitude and longitude with another station was cataloged and an ongoing effort is underway to resolve such stations and get them loaded into the tables where possible. In some instances, it is simply a matter of resolving the latitude and longitude to a higher resolution (if available) so that the station can be reloaded into the tables. In other cases, extensive research will be required to determine if there is an error in either the latitude or longitude or perhaps even the block station number that has been assigned to the station before it was sent to the archive. It should be noted that there were over one thousand stations that could not be loaded into the data base because of this problem. In addition to this problem there were approximately xxxxx stations in the archive that did not have any latitude and longitude or the latitude and longitude had been set to a default of latitude = 0 and longitude = 0. Stations without a valid latitude and longitude were not loaded into the tables. A detailed quality control data base of errors (QC_ADE) is available on the AFCCC intranet at http://intranet/dod/quality.php. QC_ADE is an Access data base that the Data Quality Team uses to detail and catalog any know errors that exist in the various data bases maintained at AFCCC. QC_ADE contains details of both open and resolved errors in the data. It offers search a search capability based on weather element, database, blockstation, country, date range, AFWA Problem Report Number, internal tracker identification number, and keyword. PROCESS DATE: 19010101

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Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC > National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce

Contact_Person: NCDC CUSTOMER SERVICE

Contact_Position: DATA CENTER CONTACT

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: 151 Patton Avenue, Room 120

City: Asheville

State_or_Province: NC

Postal_Code: 28801-5001

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 828-271-4800

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 828-271-4876

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: ncdc.orders@noaa.gov

Resource_Description: ______DSI-9966 ____

Distribution_Liability:

Not Available

Standard_Order_Process:

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: CSV

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/

Access_Instructions:

DATA CENTER URL

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/isd/index.php

Access_Instructions:

Data Access, Information, Methods, and Reports are available

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nmmrview/fgdc.jsp?id=gov....

Access_Instructions:

View Source Metadata document from the Metadata Manager and Repository (NMMR).

Fees: Please See Summary

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20070928

Metadata_Review_Date: 20110721

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Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: NCDC METADATA SERVICES

Contact_Position: DIF AUTHOR

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: 151 Patton Avenue

Address: Room 468

City: Asheville

State_or_Province: North Carolina

Postal_Code: 28801-5001

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 828-271-4800

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 828-271-4876

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: ncdc.metadata@noaa.gov

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

Metadata_Time_Convention: local time