Hourly and Daily Surface and Upper Air Weather Data for China, Japan, Indonesia, Phillipines, Adjacent Seas and Western Pacific (1860-1943)

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Title: Hourly and Daily Surface and Upper Air Weather Data for China, Japan, Indonesia, Phillipines, Adjacent Seas and Western Pacific (1860-1943)

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The Buitenzorg, Indonesia data reside in 1 book, 'Observations Meteorologiques Tires Des Observations Faites Au Jardin Botanique De Buitenzorg 's Lands Plantentuin' (C/eg AOb), and is written in French. The tables contained in this book are hourly weather observations and daily weather averages for Buitenzorg, Indonesia from 1901 to 1904. The parameters included in these tables are air temperature, temperature at ground depths of 30, 60, 90 cm, and absolute and relative humidity. The eastern China data reside in 1 book, 'Climatic Atlas of China Proper' (Miscellaneous Unclassified Publications). The maps contained in this atlas are monthly, seasonal, and annual weather averages for Eastern China from 1860 to 1943. The variables displayed in this atlas are pressure, air temperature, and precipitation. For precipitation, there are maps of the month of maximum and minimum precipitaion, rainy days, period with monthly precipitation greater than 100 and 200 mm, the maximum and minimum annual, and the maximum daily precipitation. Other features included in this atlas are monthly climatic types, climatic divisions according to Koeppen's classification, and tentative climatic divisions. The China, Japan, and Phillipines data reside in 1 book, 'Hong-Kong Observatory Weather Maps, November 1926 Specimen Month' (Miscellaneous Foreign Weather Maps). The data contained in these books are daily weather observation tables for China, Japan, and the Phillipines, and daily weather maps for East Asia and adjacent seas for the month of November 1926. The surface parameters included in the tables are pressure, wind speed and direction, temperature, humidity, and present weather for a specific observation time. The maps include isobars, cloudiness, and wind barbs. The southeast Asia data resides in 6 books, 'Service Meteorologique De L'Indochine Observations Meteorologiques' (C/ed I410), and is written in French. The data contained in this book are hourly weather observation tables for Southeast Asia and daily weather maps for East Asia and adjacent areas of the Western Pacific for the period 1937 to 1939. The surface parameters included in the tables are cloudiness, rainfall, visibility, and surface wind speed and direction. In addition, hourly upper level wind observations are given for Southeast Asian cities. The maps contain isobars, wind barbs and cloudiness for 5 A.M of each day of the period. The Taiwan and Korea data reside in 1 book, 'Aerial Weather Charts of Sea Near Japan' (Miscellaneous Foreign Publications), and is written in Japanese with notes in English. This book contains two types of data: monthly mean wind rose diagrams for Taiwan and Korea from the surface to 3,000 meters; and wind contour maps for the East Coast of Asia and adjacent seas, for levels of 1,000, 1,500, 2,000, and 3,000 meters above the surface. These data are for 1922 and 1923 only. The Manilla, Phillipines data reside in 1 book, 'Observatorio Meteorologico De Manila' (C/eg 20 M278C), and is written in Portuguese. The data contained in this book are graphs of continuous daily weather traces for Manila, Phillipines from 1884 to 1888. The parameters displayed on these graphs are surface pressure, wind speed and direction, temperature, humidity, vapor pressure, and rainfall. In addition there are some seismological parameters displayed. The China precipitation data reside in 1 book, 'Etude Sur La Pluie En Chine' (C/eb G417), and is written in French. The data contained in this book are maps of monthly, seasonal, and annual precipitation for China averaged over the period 1873 to 1925. These books are part of the foreign meteorological data collection held by the NOAA Central Library in Washington, DC. Information in this collection dates back to the 18th century for daily, monthly, seasonal, and annual tabular summaries, and the 19th century for weather maps. These data are the result of foreign exchange agreements, but the collection has not been updated since 1983.

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Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 18600101

Ending_Date: 19431231

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Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed

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Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: 85.0

East_Bounding_Coordinate: 180.0

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 55.0

South_Bounding_Coordinate: -10.0

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Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: GCMD PLATFORM

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Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ANCILLARY KEYWORDS

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO TOPIC CATEGORY

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > AIR QUALITY > VISIBILITY

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA > STORMS

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

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

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

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

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > HUMIDITY

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR > HUMIDITY

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

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS

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

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD TYPES

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > RAIN > RAINFALL

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS > SOIL TEMPERATURE

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WINDS > SURFACE WINDS

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Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > TECTONICS > EARTHQUAKES > EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE/INTENSITY

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Theme_Keyword: METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS

Theme_Keyword: ESIP > EARTH SCIENCE INFORMATION PARTNERS PROGRAM

Theme_Keyword: Annual Data

Theme_Keyword: China

Theme_Keyword: Climatology

Theme_Keyword: Daily Data

Theme_Keyword: East Asia

Theme_Keyword: Hourly Data

Theme_Keyword: Idn_node Gsfc/noaa/nesdis/nodc

Theme_Keyword: Indonesia

Theme_Keyword: Japan

Theme_Keyword: Monthly Data

Theme_Keyword: Phillipines

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Theme_Keyword: Seasonal Data

Theme_Keyword: Soil Temperatures

Theme_Keyword: Southeast Asia

Theme_Keyword: Statistics

Theme_Keyword: Surface

Theme_Keyword: Upper Air

Theme_Keyword: Upper Level Winds

Theme_Keyword: Weather Observations

Theme_Keyword: CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

Theme_Keyword: ENVIRONMENT

Theme_Keyword: GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION

Theme_Keyword: OCEANS

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Place_Keyword: OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN

Place_Keyword: CONTINENT > ASIA > EASTERN ASIA > CHINA

Place_Keyword: OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > INDONESIA

Place_Keyword: CONTINENT > ASIA > EASTERN ASIA > JAPAN

Place_Keyword: CONTINENT > ASIA > EASTERN ASIA > NORTH KOREA

Place_Keyword: CONTINENT > ASIA > EASTERN ASIA > SOUTH KOREA

Place_Keyword: CONTINENT > ASIA > EASTERN ASIA > TAIWAN

Place_Keyword: OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN > PHILIPPINES

Place_Keyword: CONTINENT > ASIA > SOUTHEAST ASIA > INDONESIA

Place_Keyword: CONTINENT > ASIA > SOUTHEASTERN ASIA

Place_Keyword: GEOGRAPHIC REGION > EQUATORIAL > EQUATORIAL ASIA

Place_Keyword: GEOGRAPHIC REGION > MID-LATITUDE

Place_Keyword: VERTICAL LOCATION > BOUNDARY LAYER

Place_Keyword: VERTICAL LOCATION > SEA SURFACE

Place_Keyword: VERTICAL LOCATION > TROPOSPHERE

Temporal:

Temporal_Keyword_Thesaurus: GCMD

Temporal_Keyword: Hourly, Daily, Seasonal, Annual

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Contact_Organization: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC/LISD > Library Services Information Division, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce

Contact_Person: NOAA CENTRAL LIBRARY

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Address: NOAA Central Library

Address: 1315 East-West Highway 2nd Floor, SSMC3

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Postal_Code: 20910-3282

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (301) 713-2600 x124

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (301) 713-4598

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: reference@www.lib.noaa.gov

Resource_Description: C/EB G417

Resource_Description: C/EG 20 M278C

Resource_Description: C/EG AOB

Resource_Description: C/EG I410

Resource_Description: MISC. FOREIGN PUBLICATIONS

Resource_Description: MISC. UNCLASSIFIED PUBLICATIONS

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Metadata_Date:

Metadata_Review_Date: 20120223

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: PETER L. GRIMM

Contact_Position: DIF AUTHOR

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Address: NOAA Environmental Information Services

Address: 1315 East-West Highway, SSMC3, Station 15441

City: Silver Spring

State_or_Province: MD

Postal_Code: 20910

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (301) 713-0575

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Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: peter.l.grimm@noaa.gov

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