Climate Database Modernization Program (CDMP)

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Climate Database Modernization Program
(CDMP) Marine Tasks
Joe Elms Program Manager
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NOAAs Climate Database Modernization Program
(CDMP)
Primary Goal Digitize and preserve historical
climate and environmental data and make them
easily accessible via the Internet
50 NOAA tasks supported by CDMP FY 2005 funding
Task Selection based on an Annual Proposal Process
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CDMP Current Status

• CDMP has three primary Conversion Contractors
• Current contracts end either February or March
  2006
• CDMP FY 06 budget is not yet known
• CDMP Data Access Workshop November 15-16, 2005

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CDMP Marine Activities

• Canadian Marine
• WMO Publication 47
• Incoming Marine Records - VOS Navy
• German Maury
• US Maury
• Lightship Observations
• NOS Fisheries data
• Simultaneous Ship Observations
• NOS Coastal Charts
• Early European Ship Logs

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Incoming Records US Navy Forms VOS Forms
Approximately 120K obs/yr Canadian Marine
(1992 - 2005 ) VOS Forms Canadian Navy Forms
242K obs keyed All of these data should flow
to the Global Collecting Centers
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Maury Collections

• US Maury Collection
• Keyed in China
• 69904 images in the Collection on WSSRD
• Original manuscript Inventory imaged (88 reels)
  from NARA

• German Maury Collection
• 870 logbooks 20945 images in the Collection
• Keying format has been prepared for the 1st
  series
• logbook selection and keying software being
  developed

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1955 Ed.
WMO Pub 47

• 1955-1972 (15 volumes 2920 pages)
• Keying format developed
• 1st pilot test produced

1972 Ed.
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Additional Marine Data Collections

• NOS tide station data 152 stations along the
  US coast and Caribbean Sea daily reading of air
  temperature, water temperature and density
  (1887-1995)

• Fisheries deck log data from SeaCat Bongo
  cruises (1985-2000 32,958 records)

• Lightship Observations
• NCDC holdings ( 14 lightships 1936-1983 )
• NARA holdings (1891-1971)

• Simultaneous Meteorological Observations on
  Ships (1874-1902)

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NOS Shoreline Charts
Approximately 75 of the 14,000 T-Sheets have
been vectorized
The vector data are accessible from the NOAA
Shoreline Data Explorer web sitehttp//www.ngs.n
oaa.gov/newsys_ims/shoreline/index.cfmThe
raster data are available from the IMC Coastal
Data Explorer web sitehttp//coastalexplorer.imc
wv.com/
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Early European Ship Logbooks

• Workshop at NCDC in Aug 2004
• UK Other European Collections
• Determine what is available
• Identify funding
• Image and keying
• Quality Control and merging

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