Marine Surface Data from the National Center for Environmental Prediction.

Marine surface data are segregated from Global Telecommunication System (GTS) data stream at the National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). The GTS records have global distribution and are from ships, buoys, and other platforms at frequencies native to each respective observing system. The data include many parameters from complete ship surface meteorological observations (wind, atmospheric pressure and and temperature, cloudiness, sea surface temperature, etc.) to limited variables from drifting buoy observations (sea surface temperature and atmospheric pressure). Beginning in March 1997 these data have been collected and archived primarily to support the development of the International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS). Periodically, the GTS data are processed, quality assurance checked, combined with other data sources, and included in ICOADS.

These data may be suitable for some very specific studies, but it is generally recommended that ICOADS be used instead. The ICOADS observations [http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds540.0/] and ICOADS monthly summary statistics [http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds540.1/] are also available, as is much more information on the ICOADS project website [http://icoads.noaa.gov/]

海洋表面数据自国家环境预测中心（NCEP）的全球电信系统（GTS）数据流中分离出来。GTS记录具有全球分布特性，数据来源于船舶、浮标及其他平台，其频率与各自观测系统的原生频率相匹配。这些数据涵盖了从完整的船舶表面气象观测（风速、大气压力及温度、云量、海面温度等）到漂流浮标观测的有限变量（海面温度和大气压力）等多个参数。自1997年3月起，这些数据主要为了支持国际综合海洋大气数据集（ICOADS）的发展而被收集和归档。定期地对GTS数据进行处理、质量保证检查，并与其他数据源相结合，最终纳入ICOADS。这些数据可能适用于某些非常特定的研究，但通常建议使用ICOADS。ICOADS观测数据[http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds540.0/]和ICOADS月度总结统计数据[http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds540.1/]亦可供查阅，ICOADS项目网站[http://icoads.noaa.gov/]上提供了更多相关信息。