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Regular VOS reports from NOAA R/Vs (2000-Nov. 2007) in ICOADS Release 2.5



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Figure 1. Regular Voluntary Observing Ship (VOS) reports (identified by call sign) from NOAA Research Vessels (R/Vs) Jan 2000 through Nov 2007 by year. Note: This ends in Nov 2007 because starting in Dec 2007 the Global Telecommunication System (GTS) data from NOAA/NCEP have all ship call signs masked (arising from international ship security and commercial concerns), thus identifying the R/V data by call sign in those GTS data is currently impractical.
Henry B. Bigelow (WTDF)
Ronald H. Brown (WTEC)
Delaware II (KNBD)
Oscar Dyson (WTEP)
Fairweather (WTEB)
Okeanos Explorer (WTDH)
Nancy Foster (WTER)
Miller Freeman (WTDM)
Gordon Gunter (WTEO)
Hi'ialakai (WTEY)
Thomas Jefferson (WTEA)
David Starr Jordan (WTDK)
Ka'imimoana (WTEU)
McArthur 2 (WTEJ)
Oregon II (WTDO)
Rainier (WTEF)
Oscar Elton Sette (WTEE)


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Figure 2. Regular VOS reports (identified by call sign) from NOAA R/Vs Jan 2000 through Nov 2007 by deck:
792 US Natl. Cntrs. for Environ. Pred. (NCEP) BUFR GTS: Ship Data
874 Shipboard Environmental (Data) Acquisition System (SEAS)
926 International Maritime Meteorological (IMM) Data
927 International Marine (US- or foreign-keyed ship data)


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Figure 3. Spatial distribution of the Ronald H. Brown VOS data by year (colors as displayed in Fig. 1).

deck map

Figure 4. Spatial distribution of the Ronald H. Brown VOS data by deck (colors as displayed in Fig. 2).



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