=============================================================================== International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS): Release 2.3 README for http://icoads.noaa.gov/metadata/wmo47/ 16 May 2006 ======================================================================= Document Revision Information (previous version: 8 December 2004): Updates for Release 2.3, the ICOADS URL, NOCS contact details, and realignment of the former NOAA Climate Diagnostics Center (CDC). [Note: Effective 1 October 2005, CDC was merged into the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) as part of the Physical Sciences Division (PSD).] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This directory contains historical ship metadata from World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Publication No. 47 (WMO, 1955-). More recent WMO Pub. 47 metadata, and documentation, may be obtained from: http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/ois/pub47/pub47-home.htm Also, some call sign and ship name information for ships can be obtained from the following International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Website: http://www.itu.int/cgi-bin/htsh/mars/ship_search.sh Currently, there are four main subdirectories: 1: http://icoads.noaa.gov/metadata/wmo47/cdmp_1955-72/ The earliest editions and supplements (previously paper-only) for 1955-72 were imaged by NOAA's Climate Database Modernization Program (CDMP), and converted into the (searchable) PDF files available in this subdirectory. In addition, digitization into an alphanumeric format was completed by CDMP by early 2006, in cooperation with the UK National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS).* The digital files back to 1956 as edited by NOCS are available in the "wmo47edit" subdirectory, and PDF files recreated from the edited digital files to resemble the original printed publication (for easier viewing) are available under the "wmo47rec" subdirectory. These digital files and recreated PDFs should be regarded as preliminary pending additional checking and editing, and the planned addition of the earliest (1955) files at a later date. 2: http://icoads.noaa.gov/metadata/wmo47/kent_1973-94/ NOCS re-formatted metadata from the annual Pub. 47 volumes for 1973-94 for easier computer access, including some corrections. These metadata are available either from the original tar file "WMO47.tar" (1.2MB), or subdirectory WMO47 contains the metadata as placed into a directory structure created by the Unix command "tar -xvf WMO47.tar". See "txt" files residing within WMO47 for a description of the annual numeric or text (published format) files available in corrected or uncorrected versions for 1973-94. 3: http://icoads.noaa.gov/metadata/wmo47/wmo_annual/ The 1994-98 annual editions of Pub. 47 metadata (obtained from NCDC on 4 December 1998) are available in this subdirectory as Z compressed files (on a Unix system, to uncompress "filename.Z", type "uncompress filename.Z"). Note that this provides one year of overlap with the re-formatted metadata available in the kent_1973-94 subdirectory. The first two digits of each (ascii) filename indicate the year, and the file type is indicated by the remaining characters preceding ".dat": codes: record layout and code tables for rtes and ships files rtes: list of ships' routes ships: list of ships and their characteristics All three types of files were received by NCDC from WMO for each year 1995-98; for unknown reasons, only the two lists were received for 1994. Following is a Unix "ls -l" providing the compressed file sizes in bytes: -r-xr-xr-x 1 sdw coads 9090 Dec 4 1998 94rtes.dat.Z -r-xr-xr-x 1 sdw coads 174019 Dec 4 1998 94ships.dat.Z -r-xr-xr-x 1 sdw coads 7958 Dec 4 1998 95codes.dat.Z -r-xr-xr-x 1 sdw coads 9706 Dec 4 1998 95rtes.dat.Z -r-xr-xr-x 1 sdw coads 192143 Dec 4 1998 95ships.dat.Z -r-xr-xr-x 1 sdw coads 8330 Dec 4 1998 96codes.dat.Z -r-xr-xr-x 1 sdw coads 9706 Dec 4 1998 96rtes.dat.Z -r-xr-xr-x 1 sdw coads 174088 Dec 4 1998 96ships.dat.Z -r-xr-xr-x 1 sdw coads 8587 Dec 4 1998 97codes.dat.Z -r-xr-xr-x 1 sdw coads 9701 Dec 4 1998 97rtes.dat.Z -r-xr-xr-x 1 sdw coads 175042 Dec 4 1998 97ships.dat.Z -r-xr-xr-x 1 sdw coads 8598 Dec 4 1998 98codes.dat.Z -r-xr-xr-x 1 sdw coads 9718 Dec 4 1998 98rtes.dat.Z -r-xr-xr-x 1 sdw coads 174831 Dec 4 1998 98ships.dat.Z 4: http://icoads.noaa.gov/metadata/wmo47/wmo_quarterly/ The code tables and layout (html documentation, uncompressed) for the first quarter of 1999 (received in July 2002) are available within this subdirectory: -r--r--r-- 1 sdw coads 55183 Jul 1 2002 47CodeTables9903.html -r--r--r-- 1 sdw coads 42245 Jul 1 2002 47LayoutGuide9903.html together with quarterly metadata files for the first quarter of 1999 through (currently) the second quarter of 2004 (received from Liz Kent in December 2004): -r--r--r-- 1 sdw coads 8803 Jul 1 2002 Pub47.routes.990331.data.Z -r--r--r-- 1 sdw coads 166626 Jul 1 2002 Pub47.ships.990331.data.Z -r--r--r-- 1 sdw coads 186005 Dec 1 09:12 Pub47Ships990630.data.Z -r--r--r-- 1 sdw coads 187837 Dec 1 09:13 Pub47Ships990930.data.Z -r--r--r-- 1 sdw coads 187457 Dec 1 09:13 Pub47Ships991231.data.Z -r--r--r-- 1 sdw coads 188037 Dec 1 10:35 Pub47Ships000331.data.Z -r--r--r-- 1 sdw coads 187641 Dec 1 10:35 Pub47Ships000630.data.Z -r--r--r-- 1 sdw coads 186649 Dec 1 10:35 Pub47Ships000930.data.Z -r--r--r-- 1 sdw coads 186953 Dec 1 10:35 Pub47Ships001231.data.Z -r--r--r-- 1 sdw coads 186951 Dec 1 09:12 Pub47Ships010331.data.Z -r--r--r-- 1 sdw coads 186185 Dec 1 09:12 Pub47Ships010630.data.Z -r--r--r-- 1 sdw coads 186107 Dec 1 09:12 Pub47Ships010930.data.Z -r--r--r-- 1 sdw coads 179825 Dec 1 09:12 Pub47Ships011231.data.Z -r--r--r-- 1 sdw coads 181532 Dec 1 09:10 Pub47.ships.020331.data.Z -r--r--r-- 1 sdw coads 181474 Dec 1 09:10 Pub47.ships.020630.data.Z -r--r--r-- 1 sdw coads 196353 Dec 1 09:10 Pub47.ships.020930.data.Z -r--r--r-- 1 sdw coads 197801 Dec 1 09:10 Pub47.ships.021231.data.Z -r--r--r-- 1 sdw coads 202633 Dec 1 09:11 Pub47.ships.030331.data.Z -r--r--r-- 1 sdw coads 192865 Dec 1 09:11 Pub47.ships.030630.data.Z -r--r--r-- 1 sdw coads 212677 Dec 1 09:11 Pub47.ships.030930.data.Z -r--r--r-- 1 sdw coads 229897 Dec 1 09:11 Pub47.ships.031231.data.Z -r--r--r-- 1 sdw coads 230403 Dec 1 09:12 Pub47Ships040331.data.Z -r--r--r-- 1 sdw coads 230755 Dec 1 09:12 Pub47Ships040630.data.Z Conventions for naming the quarterly files have changed; the above files are listed chronologically by metadata quarter. Currently, ship routing information has only been received for the first quarter of 1999. {Reference} WMO (World Meteorological Organization), International List of Selected, Supplementary and Auxiliary Ships, WMO No. 47, Geneva, Switzerland, 1955- (published on paper since 1955, and also digitally since 1973). ----------- * Dr. Elizabeth C. Kent (eck@noc.soton.ac.uk) James Rennell Division (254/26) National Oceanography Centre, Southampton European Way, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 3ZH UK Phone: +44 (0)23 8059 6646 Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 6400