Current Data Set held by KNMI (1938-2001)
Data set information
| Query EDMED |
| General | |
| Data holding centre | Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute |
| Country | Netherlands  |
| Time period | 1938 - 2001 |
| Ongoing | No |
| Geographical area | Worldwide |
| Observations | |
| Parameters | Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents) |
| Instruments | Observers |
| Description | |
| Summary | KNMI keeps a large historical archive with ships journals, observations of merchant navy vessels, weather ships and lightships. Observations are kept in digital form in a mass storage system. Contact person: KD-desk (kddesk@knmi.nl). Note: The decision has been made at the First Session of JCOMM, Iceland, 2001, to terminate visual current observations by ships. |
| Originators | Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute |
| Availability | |
| Organisation | Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute |
| Availability | Unknown |
| Contact | Frits Koek (KNMI Operationeel Datacentrum (KODAC)) |
| Address | Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute |
| Telephone | +31 (0)30 2206860 |
| Facsimile | +31 30 2210407 |
| frits.koek@knmi.nl | |
| Administration | |
| Collating centre | National Oceanographic Data Committee |
| Local identifier | 20005104 |
| Global identifier | 2989 |
| Last revised | 2009-09-23 |
