=============================================================================== International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS): Release 3.0 README for http://icoads.noaa.gov/software/production-codes 01D 15 Jul 2016 ======================================================================= Document Revision Information (previous version: 10 Dec 2013, level 01C): {ICOADS-Release3.tar.gz} added in Table 1. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See http://icoads.noaa.gov/e-doc/ for information about most of the input and output formats listed in Table 2. Table 1. Production software for previous releases, the current Release 3.0, and for the new NCEP-NCDC merge processing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- File Description =============================================================================== {ICOADS-releases.tar.gz} Releases 2.1-2.5 {ICOADS-dupelims.tar.gz} Duplicate elimination versions {ICOADS-dupelim2.5.tar.gz} Release 2.5 duplicate elimination {ICOADS-RT.2.5.1.tar.gz} NCEP-based near-real-time {ICOADS-NRT-merge.tar.gz} NCEP-NCDC near-real-time merge {ICOADS-Release3.tar.gz} Release 3.0.0 Table 2. Higher-level directories that may be present (as applicable) in the tar archives listed in Table 1. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Directory Description Format input output =============================================================================== Individual Observations processing directories: [2.x] quality control for release no. 2.x IMMA IMMA [bufr] conversion BUFR IMMA [dup] duplicate elimination IMMA IMMA [gts] conversion FM IMMA [lmr] conversion IMMA LMR [lmrf] conversion LMR/IMMA LMRF [orig] conversion GTS IMMA [qc] quality control IMMA IMMA [supd] Supplemental Data attachment IMMA IMMA [wmo47] WMO Pub. 47 attachment IMMA IMMA Monthly Summaries processing directory: [msg] 1 deg./2 deg.; equatorial/global; enh./std. LMRF/IMMA MSG Table 3. Limits files (binary, 32-bit, big-endian) for trimming and NCDC flags. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- File Description =============================================================================== {ZKT1} DSUL.1 as described in Release 1 Supp. C {ZKT1.txt.gz} text equivalent printed by routine {ql8} {ZKT2} DSUL.1 except 1909 RH limits replaced by 1949 {ZKT2.txt.gz} text equivalent printed by routine {ql8} {ZKU1} DSUL.1 except 1979 limits only {ZKU1.txt.gz} text equivalent printed by routine {ql8} {ql8} routine to read and print {ZKT1}{ZKT2}{ZKU1} {LNDLM2_32} NCDC defined landlocked and limits {LNDLM2_32.txt.gz} text equivalent printed by routine {qu3} {qu3} routine to read and print {LNDLM2_32}