The World Ocean

Air pressure; Cloud cover height and extent; Air temperature; Wind strength and direction

Data set : ORGANIZATION - by RV cruises squares 10 - 10 deg.

                              stationary oceanic station  

STATISTICS - observed data FREQUENCY/GRID - 2/4 obs/day STATIONS/LEVELS - RV cruises (91 soviet and 23 foreign vessels) levels : earth -sea

           tropopause
           special points
           maximum wind
           wind turn 
          surface: 1000, 850, 700, 500, 400, 300, 250, 200, 
          150, 100, 70, 50, 30, 20, 10 hPa  

CONTROL - for limiting value NOTE - every vessel has its own period of observations

              and the number of cruises  

STRUCTURE- up to 50 data files in one volume One file - one or several cruises for the period being indicated

All-Russia Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information, World Data Centre, National Oceanographic Data Centre (NODC)
6 Korolyov St.
Obninsk
Kaluga Region
249035
Russian Federation