MARINE OBSERVATION SOURCE · S015
ICOADS
Discover marine observations available through ICOADS, including parameters, platforms, spatial and temporal coverage, metadata, and access methods.
- Operator
- NOAA NCEI + international partners
- Role
- Surface marine archive / aggregator
- Platforms
- Ships; buoys; C-MAN and other surface marine platforms
- Observed variables
- SST; air temperature; SLP; wind; humidity; waves; clouds/weather; platform metadata
- Spatial coverage
- Global ocean
- Period
- 1662-present
- Depth coverage
- Surface / near-surface only
- QC and data mode
- Extensive archive QC and source metadata
- Access method
- Download NRT daily or monthly observation files from NCEI
- Indexed download targets
- 11
Canonical parameters
- Sea-level / barometric pressure
air_pressure_at_sea_level - Air temperature
air_temperature - Cloud amount / cloud fraction
cloud_fraction - Dew-point temperature
dew_point_temperature - Primary-swell direction
primary_swell_direction_from - Primary-swell period
primary_swell_period - Sea-surface temperature
sea_surface_temperature - Wind direction
wind_direction_from - Wind speed
wind_speed - Wind-wave period
wind_wave_period - Wind-wave significant height
wind_wave_significant_height
Discovery and access
Primary source for historical surface marine meteorology; route-level sampling bias must be represented.