Keying the U'S' Navy Weather Station Index Books

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Keying the U.S. Navy Weather Station Index
Books Joey Comeaux National Center for
Atmospheric Research Neal Lott National
Climatic Data Center
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U.S. Navy Weather Station Indexes

• DESCRIPTION
• Provide WMO ID, station name, country, latitude,
  longitude, elevation and year.
• Published annually from 1958-1968.
• Include most stations in the global land surface
  station network.
• All books are in excellent condition.

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U.S. Navy Weather Station Indexes

• OBJECTIVE
• Unique entries among books will be keyed.
• A station history will be created for 1958-1968.
• Will provide valuable information for period with
  a dearth of station metadata.
• PROJECT FOCUS
• NCAR will QC the keyed data and provide access to
  the research community.
• NCDC will use in Integrated Surface Data (ISD)
  project and in the Multi-Network Metadata System
  (MMS).

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Sample Key Entry for U.S. Navy Station Wx Index
Block number is appended to station index number

• Each field separated by a colon ()

Year from book
65401NavrongoN10-53W01-05665GHANA1965
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