Acknowledgements

COADS is the result of a continuing cooperative project between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)--specifically its Environmental Research Laboratories (ERL), National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES, conducted jointly with the University of Colorado)--and the National Science Foundation's National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The NOAA portion of COADS is currently supported by the NOAA Climate and Global Change Program and the NOAA Environmental Services Data and Information Management (ESDIM) Program.

We also acknowledge the many individuals who have worked over the years through their national meteorological services and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and its predecessors to see that global scale marine observations were collected, preserved, and distributed for the use and benefit of all.