NCDC CD-ROM Software Snippets


 

Introduction
International Station Meteorological Climate Summary
US Navy Marine Climatic Atlas Of The World
Global Upper Air Climatic Atlas
Solar and Meteorological Surface Observation Network
Hourly US Weather Observations
NCDC Cooperative Summary of Day
Radiosonde Data of North America 1946-1996
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Software for use with various NCDC CD ROM products is available for download below. Please note that these files are provided as a service, however NCDC does not provide programming support in their use.


 
 

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This data file is provided to assist customers who want to access the data files directly. The "cd_smos.c" file is an entire decompress program for the International Station Meteorological Climate Summary. This package is far too complicated to try to break out the table and subtable lookup schemes because they evolved over time.

Download: cd_smos.c


 
 

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These data files are provided to assist customers who want to access the data files directly. The "roseread.doc" and "sclrread.doc" files are code snippets for decoding US Navy Climatic Atlas of the World (CD MARINE) roses and scalor files respectively.

Downloads: roseread.doc, sclrread.doc


 
 

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This data file is provided to assist customers who want to access the data files directly. "uacgrid.doc" is a file containing code snippets for decoding the Global Upper Air Climatic Atlas (GUACA) gridded level data.

Download: uacgrid.doc


 
 

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Below are the programs and document files from the SAMSON CDROM development project. This software is provided as a service to customers. We do not provide technical support for the software or modifications to the software. The programs are "nrelcdrm.c", "comprb14.c", and "sel3282x.for". All the documentation are contained within the programs. Map display files are not provided. Executable code for compressing and uncompressing the data files are "compress.exe" and "zcat.exe". A documentation file for these is "compress.doc". File "td3210.doc" describes the format of an uncompressed data file.

Downloads: comprb14.c, compress.doc, compress.exe, format.txt, nrelcdrm.c, samstns.txt, sel3282x.for, stnlist.man, td3510.doc, zcat.exe


 
 

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There is a 'docs' directory on the HUSWO CD-ROM. In this directory are a number of informational files that may assist you in using this CD-ROM. A brief exaplantion of each is listed below:

  1. stns.txt -- A list of the stations appearing on this CD-ROM. The stations are sorted by a 5-digit ID (WBAN) number, and the data files are organized by directories with the same names as the stations' ID numbers.
  2. stnlist.txt -- Information on how to interpret the 'stns.txt' file.
  3. huswo.txt -- Monthly data counts for each station on this CD-ROM. This file is sorted by WBAN ID number, with one line for each year's inventory (6 in all).
  4. invent.txt -- Information on how to interpret the 'huswo.txt' file.
  5. zcat.exe -- File compression/uncompression software. All weather data files on this CD-ROM are in compressed format, indicated in each station's directory by the '.Z' extension at the end of each annual data file.
  6. how2zcat.txt -- Information on how to use 'zcat.exe' to compress and uncompress data files without using the HUSWO graphical interface.
  7. compress.txt -- Technical information on how 'zcat.exe' compresses and uncompresses files based on their bitmap structure.
  8. format_e.txt -- Data format for users extracting data in English units through the graphical interface.
  9. format_m.txt -- Data format for users extracting data in metric units through the graphical interface.
  10. format_c.txt -- Data format for users extracting data directly from the CD, not using the graphical interface. The resulting data files contain data with a mix of both English and metric units.

Downloads: compress.txt, format_c.txt, format_e.txt, format_m.txt, how2zcat.txt, huswo.txt, invent.txt, stnlist.txt, stns.txt, zcat.exe


 
 

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All accompanying software with this CD set is given for download below. Documentation and detailed information is given in this readme file and this readme.new file. The files are listed as follows:

  • coopsod.for (DOS compatible software)
  • coop94.for (DOS compatible software for 94 CD ROM)
  • coopsodx.f destination (UNIX compatible software)

Downloads: coop94.exe, coop94.for, coop9496.exe, coop9496.for, coop9496x.f, coop94x.f, coopsod.exe, coopsod.for, coopsodx.f


 
 

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