International Station Meteorological Climate Summary (ISMCS) Version 2.0 on

CD-ROM

BRIEF

The NCDC, in cooperation with the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force has developed an International Station Meteorological Climate Summary (ISMCS) CD-ROM containing detailed climate summaries for 980 world wide stations and 5,000 of the WORLD WIDE AIRFIELD SUMMARY STATIONS (TD-9647) as 'fillers' in sparse regions. These locations include National Weather Service locations, domestic and overseas U.S. Navy and Air Force sites, and selected foreign stations. Tabular or statistical data can be exported to a printer or spreadsheet. Version 2.0 also supports limited mouse capability.

The detailed summaries contain up to 40 separate tables with 1 to 108 subtables. The data are accessible by geographically panning and zooming to a given area on a global display or by directly selecting a station from one of seven identifiers, such as name, WMO#, or country. The data includes surface air temperature, humidity, winds, and precipitation. Five basic types of summaries are contained on the ISMCS:

1. U.S. Navy Personal Computer Version of Summary of Meteorological Observations Surface (PC-SMOS) 2. NOAA PC-SMOS 3. U.S. Navy Foreign PC-SMOS 4. U.S. Air Force ETAC Personal Computer Version of Surface Observation Climatic Summary (PC-SOCS) 5. U.S. Navy World Wide Airfield Summaries (WWAS)

Daily data include mean, maximum, and minimum temperature, degree days, precipitation, snowfall depth and extreme amounts. There are hourly observations of dry-bulb temperature, dew point, relative humidity, wet-bulb temperature, sea-level, station, and altimeter pressure, thunderstorms, wind direction, wind speed, peak gusts, sky cover, visibility, and cloud ceiling. Monthly parameters in this dataset are precipitation totals and extremes, snowfall totals and depth, extreme snowfall amounts, and maximum and minimum temperatures, as well as the frequency of thunderstorms, sky cover, peak winds, crosswinds, snow depth, precipitation, snowfall, and relative humidity.

The operations software is contained on the CD-ROM and is menu driven with on screen directive prompts. Detailed HELP screens describe the system at all levels of the system and serves as the User's Manual. This CD-ROM was produced as a joint effort of the tri-agency Federal Climate Complex, Asheville, NC comprised of the NCDC, the Naval Oceanography Command Detachment-Asheville, and the U.S. Air Force Environmental Technical Applications Center-Asheville. The cost of the CD-ROM is $50.00.

ATTRIBUTES

Entry_ID: ISMCS (MD Identifier: 4805)
 
Temporal Coverage:
     From: 1910-01-01                 TO:  
 
Geographic Coverage:
     Southwest Extent: 90S,180W    Northeast Extent:  90N,180E
 
Source:
     GROUND STATIONS>Fixed Weather Stations
 
Storage Media:
     CD-ROM
 
Campaign/Project:
     CGC>Climate and Global Change Program
 
Discipline, Subdiscipline:
     EARTH SCIENCE                   > ATMOSPHERE
     EARTH SCIENCE                   > LAND
     EARTH SCIENCE                   > OCEAN
 
Location Keyword:
     GLOBAL
     SEA SURFACE
 
Parameter Group, Parameter:
     ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION         > CLOUDS
     ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION         > HUMIDITY
     ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS            > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE
     ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS            > CLOUD TYPES
     ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS            > HUMIDITY
     ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS            > PRECIPITATION
     ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS            > PRESSURE
     ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS            > STORMS
     ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS            > VISIBILITY
     ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS            > WINDS
     GEOGRAPHY AND LAND COVER        > SNOW
     OCEAN DYNAMICS                  > PRESSURE
 
General Keywords:
     CD-ROM
     CLIMATOLOGY
     DAILY DATA
     DEGREE DAYS
     DEW POINT
     DOD
     HOURLY DATA
     IDN_NODE GSFC/NCDC
     ISMCS
     NAVY
     SKY COVER
     SNOWFALL
     STATISTICS
     SURFACE
     THUNDERSTORMS
     USAF
     WEATHER
 
Revision Date: 1994-03-01

DATACENTER

Archive: 
   NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC>National Climatic Data Center, NOAA
   Data Set ID: ISMCS CD-ROM 
 
   Contact: MCCOWN, SAM 
            Climate Services Branch
            National Climatic Data Center
            NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC E/CC31
            Asheville, NC 28801
            USA
 
            Electronic Mail: INTERNET> ORDERS@NCDC.NOAA.GOV
                             OMNET> NCDC.SERVICE
 
            Phone: (704) 271-4272
                   (704) 271-4800
                   (704) 271-4876 FAX

PERSONNEL

Tech Contact: WILLIAMS, CLAUDE N.
              NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC
              Global Climate Laboratory
              Federal Building
              37 Battery Park Avenue
              Asheville, NC 28801
 
              Phone: (704) 271-4266
                     FTS 672-0266
 
Entry Author: SCIALDONE, JOHN N.
              Hughes STX
              7701 Greenbelt Road, Suite 400
              Greenbelt, MD  20770
              USA
 
              Electronic Mail: INTERNET> SCIALDONE@NSSDCA.GSFC.NASA.GOV
                               NSI/DECnet> NCF::SCIALDONE
 
              Phone: (301) 441-4214
 
 
Information in this entry provided by NCDC

REFERENCE


U.S. Marine CD-ROM Directory, 1991, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Washington DC,
48 pp.

ISMCS Brochure.

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