Description: The NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis project
is using a state-of-the-art analysis/forecast system to perform data
assimilation using past data from 1948 to the present.
Description: The Comprehensive
Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (COADS) has been compiled from ship reports
over the global ocean. The compilation of COADS is a joint effort
between NOAA's Climate Diagnostics Center (CDC), the Cooperative
Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), the National
Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and NOAA's National Climatic
Data Center (NCDC).