ICOADS Miscellaneous Metadata Imaging Task L35

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ICOADS Miscellaneous Metadata Imaging (Task L-35)
Scott Woodruff Earth System Research Laboratory
(ESRL), OAR/NOAA
Purpose The International Comprehensive
Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS) project was
initiated in 1981. The purpose of this continuing
task is to image into readily usable archival
format (PDF) a number of important project
records, international publications, and
associated materials that presently exist only on
paper. Significance The documents proposed for
imaging will enrich the digital metadata
associated with ICOADS. Some documents are also
highly relevant to WMO and to the Joint WMO/IOC
Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine
Meteorology (JCOMM).
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FY08 L-35 Accomplishments

• Copies or translations of national historical
  marine observing instructions from UK Met Office
  (19th-20thC)
• 1986 COADS Workshop Proceedings
• Japanese Whaling Ships (1946-84) logsheets
  (proprietary--not for public release)
• WMO Operational Newsletter, 1982-96

Imaged (PDF) documents will be made available (as
applicable) at the ICOADS or RECLAIM project
websites, and eventually at WMO http//icoads.noa
a.gov/ http//icoads.noaa.gov/reclaim/ http//www.
wmo.int/pages/index_en.html
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Scope of Proposed FY09 Work

• Guide to the Applications of Marine Climatology
  (WMO-No. 781, 1994) and Marine on Marine Met
  Services (WMO-No. 558, 1990)
• Woodruff (1989), report on visit to US National
  Archives (NARA)
• Diaz et al. (1989) Climatic Summaries of Ocean
  Weather Stations
• International Meteorological Tables (1890)
• Selected UK coding, decoding, and obs. manuals
• Early editions of the Manual on Codes (WMO-No.
  306)
• Note Some materials held at international
  partners such as UK NOCS, Met Office, and
  JMA--availability during FY09 may be uncertain

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For questions, please contact
Scott.D.Woodruff_at_noaa.govhttp//icoads.noaa.gov/