climate database modernization program (cdmp) data collections being keyed that contain

Climate Database Modernization Program (CDMP)

Data Collections Being Keyed that Contain

Surface Pressure

Joe Elms

Program Manager

NOAA’s Climate Database Modernization Program (CDMP)

Primary Goal: Digitize and preserve historical climate and environmental data and make them easily accessible via the Internet

National Climatic Data Center - 21 National Oceanographic Data Center - 4National Geophysical Data Center - 6National Ocean Service - 7Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research - 3National Marine Fisheries Service - 5National Weather Service - 5

50 NOAA tasks supported by CDMP FY 2005 funding

Task Selection based on an Annual Proposal Process

Records being Keyed Under CDMP

•Surface Airways Observations (SAO); 1928 -1948

235 stations keyed

•City Office 1001 forms ;1893-to beginning of SAO

166 stations keyed

•Forts (Army Signal Service) ;1820 -1893

70 stations keyed

•SAO; 1965-1981

136 stations keyed

’28 – ’48 Complete " + 1001 " + 1001, ’65 –’81 1001 / ’65 –’81 only Remaining Priority

Overall PICS StatusOverall PICS Status(current as of 30 Sep 2005)

New Orleans June 4, 1810

April, 1843

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