gov.noaa.ncdc:C00125 National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Unknown tabular digital data http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/coare/catalog/data/toc.html http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/coare/catalog/data/toc.html http Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA COARE) Data Users Guide Version 2.0 (July 1997) Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA COARE) Data Users Guide Version 2.0 (July 1997) The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) has, in archive, a historical sea surface temperature (SST) data set from the international Tropical Oceans and Global Atmosphere (TOGA) program. The data set name is sometimes shortened to TOGA SST. It is NCDC digital data set DSI-9679. TOGA was a 10-year study (1985-1994) of seasonal to year-to-year, also called short-term, climate variability. Of special interest to TOGA was the El Nino phenomenon -- unusually warm sea surface temperatures and weak trade winds in the equatorial Pacific Ocean -- which in the early 1980s was only beginning to come under serious scientific study as it was realized that the effects of El Nino were global. In response to TOGA, a global SST data center was established at the US National Meteorological Center (which later became the National Centers for Environmental Prediction); the purpose was to collect real-time ship, buoy, and satellite data, and to use these data to construct analyses of monthly mean grids for the TOGA time period. This data set is the result of a SST analysis which blends ship and buoy data with satellite data. The following information is included: monthly SST climatological fields; monthly SST fields (mean and anomaly), including ship and buoy SST analysis, satellite analysis, and blended analysis; monthly SST data distribution, including ship observations, buoy (fixed and drifting) observations, and satellite number of observations (contoured on a two-degree grid); differences between monthly SST analyzed fields of daytime and nighttime satellite analyses, and ship, buoy and satellite analysis; and a table of monthly regressions between drifting buoy SSTs and the ship and buoy SST analysis (drifters withheld), satellite analysis, and blended analysis (drifters withheld). To make a wide range of climatic data available to researchers and the public. data set C00125 AVHRR > Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer TEMPERATURE SENSORS DRIFTING BUOYS BUOYS NOAA POES > NOAA Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites SHIPS TOGA > Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/coare/catalog/data/toc.html 19850101 19941231 Ground Condition Complete As Needed -180.0 180.0 90.0 -90.0 ISO 19115 Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere 004 oceans 014 DIF Discipline Keyword Thesaurus Earth Sciences > Atmosphere > Meteorology Earth Sciences > Atmosphere > Climatology Earth Sciences > Atmosphere > Weather Earth Sciences > Ocean > Oceanography GCMD Sciences Keyword Valids EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > SOLAR RADIATION EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD AMOUNT/FREQUENCY EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE GCMD Location Valids GLOBAL OCEAN GCMD Location Valids SEA SURFACE TOGA > Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere SHIPS TEMPERATURE SENSORS TOGA > Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere BUOYS TEMPERATURE SENSORS TOGA > Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere BUOYS DRIFTING BUOYS TOGA > Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere NOAA Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites NOAA POES Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer AVHRR 5 None None Not provided Unknown Completeness information not available. Not derived from another source. Unknown Not provided by data supplier. None National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Customer Services Branch Mailing and physical

151 Patton Avenue

Room 468

Asheville North Carolina 28801-5001 USA 828-271-4800 828-271-4010 828-271-4876 ncdc.orders@noaa.gov 8:00 - 6:00 Eastern http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/about/ncdcordering.html DSI-9679 Every effort has been made to ensure that these data are accurate and reliable within the limits of current NOAA quality control procedures. NOAA can only certify that the data provided to its customers is an authentic copy of the records which were accepted for inclusion in NOAA archives. NOAA cannot assume liability for any damages caused by any errors or omissions in the data, nor as a result of the failure of the data to function on a particular system. NOAA makes no warranty, expressed or implied, nor does the fact of distribution constitute such a warranty. 20070105 20060627 National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Customer Services Branch Mailing and physical

151 Patton Avenue

Room 468

Asheville North Carolina 28801-5001 USA 828-271-4800 828-271-4010 828-271-4876 ncdc.metadata@noaa.gov 8:00 - 6:00 Eastern Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata: Extensions for Remote Sensing Metadata FGDC-STD-012-2002 http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/extensions/local_extensions.html NGDC Extensions to FGDC Metadata http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standards-projects/csdgm_rs_ex/MetadataRemoteSensingExtens.pdf http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standards-projects/csdgm_rs_ex/remote-sensing-metadata Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata: Extensions for Remote Sensing Metadata, FGDC-STD-012-2002 http://www.eis.noaa.gov/fgdc/fgdcleg.html NOAA Supplemental Information in Description (NOAA legacy extension to FGDC)