Climate Database Modernization Program

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Climate Database Modernization Program TASK
ORDER TITLE L-20 Imaging Tasks - Lightship Data
from Finland and Sweden National
Oceanographic Data Center/World Data Center for
Oceanography, Silver Spring Robert D Gelfeld,
Robert.Gelfeld_at_noaa.gov
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• The first phase involved scanning the historical
  lightship logbooks from
• World Data Center for Oceanography, Silver Spring
  (WDC) archives
• 2. Finland Institute of Marine Research (FIMR) in
  Helsinki, Finland
• 3. Swedish Meteorological and Hydrographic
  Institute (SMHI) in Goteborg, Sweden

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The second phase digitized the scanned Finnish
lightship images and provided the images and
indexes to WDC on CD-ROM these were forwarded to
IMC and loaded into the WSSRD. The data for all
three sources consists of three main types of
data sets 1. Temperature and salinity from
standard depths 2. Daily surface temperature
observations 3. Wind observations three times
per day and accompanying observations of current
speed and direction at one or more depths
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FY09 Continuation Request

• Swedish Lightship Data
• 1. Scan and digitize the surface, profile, and
  meteorological data contained on the Swedish
  Lightship datasheets to NODCs Ocean Climate
  Laboratory specifications.
• 2. Place the scanned images and digitized data
  on CD-ROM 48,000 sheets)

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Inventory for Swedish Lightship data held at SMHI
Goteborg, Sweden F2 A 1 Falsterborev
(1860-1893) F2 A 2 Falsterborev (1894-1922) F2 A
3 Finngrundet (1860-1901) F2 A 4 Finngrundet
(1860-1901) F2 A 5 Finngrundet (1887-1911) F2 A 6
Finngrundet (1913-1918) Kopparstenarna
(1914-1915) F2 A 7 Fladen (1893-1914) F2 A 8
Fladen (1918-1922) Grundkallen (1880-1890) F2 A 9
Grundkallen (1891-1922) F2 A 10 Kalkgrundet
(1883-1894) F2 A 11 Kalkgrundet (1895-1922) F2 A
12 Kopparstenarna (1883-1913) F2 A 13 Landsort
(1880-1889) F2 A14 Landsort (1891-1894) F2 A 15
Landsort (1895-1899) F2 A 16 Landsort
(1900-1905) F2 A 17 Landsort (1905-1912) F2 A 18
Landsort (1912-1917) F2 A 19 Landsort
(1917-1922) F2 A 20 Landsort (1883-1898)
Oscarsgrundet (1881-1894) F2 A 21 Oscarsgrundet
(1895-1922) F2 A 22 Pater Noster (1903-1922) F2 A
23 Svenska Björn (1883-1910) F2 A 24 Svenska
Björn (1911-1922) Svinbådan (1880-1922) F2 A 25
Svinbådan (1897-1922) F2 A 26 Sydostbrotten
(1886-1906)
F2 A 27 Sydostbrotten (1883-1910) F2 A 28
Sydostbrotten m fl. (1880-1909) F2 A 29
Sydostbrotten (1902-1912) F2 A 30 Utklippan
(1880-1903) F2 A 31 Utklippan (1904-1922) Varberg
(1880-1887) F2 A 32 Vinga (1880-1887) Visby
(1880-1911) F2 A 33 Väderöbod (1881-1892) F2 A 34
Väderöbod (1893-1897) Ystad (1881-1887)
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Swedish Lightship Sample logbook image