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Enrique,

There are no data sets available on the internet; none that I have found
anyway.  I received this notice for CDROMs that may provide you with your
needed information.  Your department should have some money to assist you
in the purchase.  The department may have uses for the datasets as well.
Good luck and I hope it is helpful.

> Here is a new listing of NCDC's CD-ROM products as of October 1993.
> A brief description and cost of each CD-ROM is given below along with
upcoming plans for 1994. This maybe useful for CLIMLIST users.....
>
>              CD-ROM Products
>
> -- International Station Meteorological Climate
> Summary (ISMCS) Ver 2.0.  This CD released in
> August 1992 gives detailed climatological
> summaries for about 980 locations worldwide.
> These locations include National Weather Service
> locations, domestic and overseas Navy and Air
> Force sites, and selected foreign stations.  Limited
> summaries are also given for almost an additional
> 5,000 worldwide sites.  Tabular or statistical data
> can be exported to a printer or spreadsheet.
> Version 2.0 also supports limited mouse
> capability.  Cost 50.00
>
> -- National Climate Information Disc-Vol 1.  This
> disc has monthly sequential temperature,
> precipitation, and drought data for the 344
> climate divisions in the contiguous U.S.  The data
> can be viewed in a tabular or graphical format and
> output sent to a printer.  The disc covers the
> period 1895-1989 and contains 1032 time-series
> graphs, 4180 maps, and 5400 frames of video
> animation.  Cost 50.00
>
> -- U.S. Navy Marine Climatic Atlas of the World -
> Ver 1.0.  This CD-ROM includes analysis and
> display software for climatological averages of
> atmospheric and oceanographic data.  The data
> are summarized with user-defined 1 and 5 degree
> grid areas covering the global marine environment.
> The summaries are produced using predominately
> ship data collected between 1854-1969.  The
> major elements include air and sea temperature,
> dewpoint temperature, scalar wind speed, sea-
> level pressure, wave height, wind and ocean-
> current roses.  This CD also allows the user to
> define element intervals (e.g. 5 to 10 knots, 2
> degree temperature intervals).  Contouring for
> explicitly user-defined regions and exporting data
> to a printer or diskette are supported. Cost 50.00
>
> -- Global Upper Air Climatic Atlas (GUACA).  A
> new two-volume CD-ROM set is available using a
> 12-year (1980-1991) 2.5 degree upper air data
> base obtained from the European Centre for
> Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).
> This CD presents upper air statistics for 15
> different vertical levels in the Northern and
> Southern Hemisphere for dry bulb and dewpoint
> temperature, geopotential height, air density, and
> vector and scalar wind speed.  The disc provides
> access/display software for gridpoint data,
> contouring capability for user-defined areas, and
> vertical profiles.  The climatology covers the 12-
> year period as well as individual year-months.
> Cost 200.00
>
> -- CLIVUE CD-ROM.  The National Climatic Data
> Center (NCDC) developed a CD-ROM in support of
> a museum exhibit which traveled across the U.S.
> The CD contains a 1,500-station subset of
> NCDC's nearly 8,000 U.S. daily cooperative
> stations.  The user selects a date and area of the
> U.S. and the CD-ROM database is queried for
> stations within the specified domain having data.
> Then, the system displays daily maximum and
> minimum temperatures, precipitation, and
> snowfall for the site.  Graphs showing 7 years, 21
> years, and the full period of record (varies by
> station) for the station(s) are available.  Visual
> displays allow users to view trends, variability,
> and extremes. Cost 50.00
>
> -- SAMSON CD Set.  The Solar and
> Meteorological Surface Observational Network
> (SAMSON) three-volume CD-ROM set is available.
> The three CD-ROMs are divided geographically
> into regions:  eastern, central, and western U.S.,
> and contain hourly solar radiation data along with
> selected meteorological elements for the period
> 1961-1990.  It encompasses 237 NWS stations
> in the United States, and also includes Guam and
> Puerto Rico.  The dataset includes both
> observational and modelled data.  The hourly solar
> elements are:  Extraterrestrial horizontal and
> extraterrestrial direct normal radiation; global,
> diffuse, and direct normal radiation.
> Meteorological elements are:  Total and opaque
> sky cover, temperature and dew point, relative
> humidity, pressure, wind direction and speed,
> visibility, ceiling height, present weather,
> precipitable water, aerosol optical depth, snow
> depth, days since last snowfall, and hourly
> precipitation. Cost 100.00 per region or 300.00 per set.
>
> -- Radiosonde Data of North America 1946-1992.
> Contains all available radiosonde data for North
> America (U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Caribbean
> Islands) through the 100-mb level on four disks.
> Disk periods are 1946-1965, 1966-1979, 1980-
> 1989, and 1990-1992.  Data includes significant,
> mandatory, and special wind levels for all
> observation times and includes geopotential
> height, temperature, dew point and wind
> direction, and scalar speed.  The user can select
> for output to printer, screen, or file, a single
> station or multiple stations for a defined time
> period, or all stations within a specified
> geographic region in either synoptic or station
> sort.  The CD also contains available station
> metadata. Cost 400.00
>
> -- Global Tropical and Extratropical Cyclone
> Climatic Atlas (GTECCA).  This single volume CD-
> ROM will contain all global historic tropical storm
> track data available for five tropical storm basins.
> Periods of record varies for each basin, with the
> beginning as early as the 1870s and with 1992 at
> the latest year.  Northern hemispheric
> extratropical storm track data will be included
> from 1965 to 1992.  Tropical track data includes
> time, position, storm stage (and maximum wind,
> central pressure when available).  The user will
> have the capability to display tracks, and track
> data for any basin or user-selected geographic
> area.  The user will also be able to select storm
> tracks passing within a user-defined radius of any
> point.  Narratives for all tropical storms for the
> 1980-1992 period will be included as well as
> basin-wide tropical storm climatological statistics.
> Available November 1993, cost 100.00
>
>
> Future CD-ROM Products and Updates
>
> -- Global Daily Data.  This CD-ROM will provide
> access to a 10,000-station set of daily maximum/
> minimum temperature, daily precipitation, and 3-
> hourly present weather for the 1977-1991 period
> of record.  Data can be selected for viewing or
> output to file for geographic areas or by a
> predefined user-selected list of stations.  Each
> data record includes element flags for suspected
> erroneous data.  A data inventory contains station
> name, latitude/longitude, elevation, period of
> record, and the number of observations of
> available data.
>
>
> -- International Station Meteorological Climate
> Summary (ISMCS) - Ver 3.0.  This update will add
> an additional 1,050 global stations bringing the
> total number of detailed summaries to 2,000
> locations.  Version 3.0 will expand mouse
> capability.
>
> -- Global Tropical and Extratropical Cyclone
> Climatic Atlas (GTECCA) - Ver 2.0.  This update
> will add 5-degree square climatology, additional
> narratives, and 1993 track data.
>
> -- U.S. Navy Marine Climatic Atlas of the World -
> Ver 2.0.  Narratives for select ocean ports will be
> added along with subsurface ocean information.
>
> -- Global Sea Ice.  Bi-monthly maps and means of
> ice edge concentrations for the Arctic and
> Antarctic regions for the period 1972-1992.
>
> -- Station Climatic Data Daily Statistics.  Summary
> statistics and access software provided to present
> daily data for major U.S. locations.  Users will be
> able to query the data base on this CD-ROM.
>
> -- Northern Hemisphere Historic Fields.  This CD
> will allow users to view daily surface charts for
> the period 1899-1992.  Daily upper air charts
> (700 mb, 500 mb, 300 mb) will be available from
> the late 40s through 1992.
>
> -- Russian Hourly Data.  Hourly observations for
> over 250 sites in the former Soviet Union will be
> available.  The period covered is generally from
> the 1950s through the mid 1980s.
>
> Ordering Information
>
> The NCDC Climate Services Branch is the group
> responsible for distribution of NCDC CD-ROM
> products to users.  They can be contacted via the
> responsible for distribution of NCDC CD-ROM
> products to users.  They can be contacted via the
> following phone number, INTERNET, electronic
> mailbox or facsimile.  Please contact NCDC for
> latest availability and pricing. Add an 11.00 handling
> charge per order.
>
> Telephone Number            704-271-4800   FAX NUMBER  704-271-4876
> OMNET MAILBOX   NCDC.SERVICE
> INTERNET ACCESS:  orders@ncdc.noaa.gov
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