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  Quality controlled maritime meteorological observations

Mqc data files contain all worldwide weather reports of the Voluntary Observing Ships (VOS) that are internationally exchanged via the Voluntary Observing Ship Global Data Assembly Centres (VOS-GDACs) on a quarterly basis. This delayed mode data is checked according to the Minimum Quality Control Standard (MQCS) and provided with quality control indicators, the flags.

The data format is International Maritime Meteorological Tape (IMMT) and from 2010 on also International Maritime Meteorological Archive (IMMA).

 
Citation proposal
(2016) . Quality controlled maritime meteorological observations. https://gdk.gdi-de.org/geonetwork/srv/api/records/de.dwd.gcc.mqc_data
 

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Date ( Publication )
2016
Date ( Revision )
2022-08-12
Edition
1.0
Edition date
2024
Identifier
http://wis.wmo.int / de.dwd.gcc.mqc_data

 

Date ( Publication )
2022-04

  Point of contact

Deutscher Wetterdienst - VOS-GDAC Germany VOS-GDAC Germany VOS-GDAC Germany (Voluntary Observing Ship Global Data Assembly Centre (DCPC) )  
Bernhard-Nocht-Str.76 Hamburg 20359 Germany

  +49 69 8062-6212  
  +49 69 8062-6249 
Website
www.dwd.de/vos-gdac  
Presentation form
Digital table
Other citation details
The dot notation recommended by WMO-CBS IPET-MDRD is used to build the code identifier.
Purpose
NC/DCPC
Status
On going

  Point of contact

Deutscher Wetterdienst - VOS-GDAC Germany VOS-GDAC Germany VOS-GDAC Germany (Voluntary Observing Ship Global Data Assembly Centre (DCPC) )  
Bernhard-Nocht-Str.76 Hamburg 20359 Germany

  +49 69 8062-6212  
  +49 69 8062-6249 
Website
http://www.dwd.de/vos-gdac  
Maintenance and update frequency
Quarterly
Update scope
Dataset
Maintenance note
The VOS-GDAC data is collected worldwide and made available on a quarterly basis.

  Point of contact

Deutscher Wetterdienst - VOS-GDAC Germany VOS-GDAC Germany VOS-GDAC Germany  

Keywords ( Theme )
  • checked data
  • marine meteorological data
  • meteorological
  • surface
  • quality control
  • global
  • world
GCMD Locations Keywords GCMD Locations Keywords ( Place )
  • GLOBAL OCEAN
  • SEA SURFACE
GCMD Earth Science and Earth Science Services Keywords GCMD Earth Science and Earth Science Services Keywords ( Theme )
  • PRECIPITATION
  • SEA LEVEL PRESSURE
  • WIND SPEED
  • WIND DIRECTION
Use limitation
No conditions apply
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
NoLimitation
Spatial representation type
Text, table
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Description
The product/data covers the following region/bounding box: south=-90.0, north=90.0, west=-180.0, east=180.0
N
S
E
W


Reference system identifier
World Geodetic System / WGS 84
Topology level
Geometry only
Geometric object type
Point
Distribution format
  • IMMT (5 )

    Specification
    https://www.ocean-ops.org/sot/vos/documents/immt5.pdf

  • IMMA (5 )

    Specification
    https://icoads.noaa.gov/e-doc/imma/R2.5-imma_short.pdf

  Point of contact

Deutscher Wetterdienst - VOS-GDAC Germany VOS-GDAC Germany VOS-GDAC Germany  
Bernhard-Nocht-Str.76 Hamburg 20359 Deutschland

  +49 69 8062-6212  
  +49 69 8062-6249 
OnLine resource
de.dwd.gcc.mqc_data  

The files contain all worldwide weather records of the Voluntary Observing Ships (VOS) that are internationally exchanged via the VOS-GDACs on a quarterly basis. The delayed mode data is checked according to the Minimum Quality Control Standard (MQCS) and provided with quality control indicators, so-called flags. The format is IMMT and from 2010 also IMMA.

OnLine resource
International Maritime Meteorological Tape (IMMT) Format IMMT-5 (Version 5)  
OnLine resource
Minimum Quality Control Standard (MQCS), Version 7  
OnLine resource
International Maritime Meteorological Archive (IMMA) Format, Release R2.5  
OnLine resource
obsglobal-ocean-vos_gdac_mqc_data  

The data are provided in the International Maritime Meteorological Tape (IMMT) and from 2010 on also in International Maritime Meteorological Archive (IMMA) format.

The structure of the file names is mix_out_{yyyy}{qn}_{format}.gz, where {qn} is the quarter of the year {yyyy}.

OnLine resource
VOS-GDAC  

Voluntary Observing Ship Global Data Assembly Centre (VOS-GDAC) Hamburg, Deutscher Wetterdienst

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Date ( Publication )
1996
Explanation
The data was checked in accordance with the WIS procedures.
Pass
true
Statement

Since 1964, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) regulates the international collection of meteorological data on the world's oceans done by ship crews. The WMO also manages the quality control, distribution and archiving of these observations. To improve the processing of observation data and to standardize the quality control, two Global Collecting Centres (GCCs) were founded in 1993: GCC-Germany in Hamburg (DWD) and GCC-UK in Edinburgh (Met Office). In 2017 the Marine Climate Data System (MCDS) was established by the former Joint WMO-IOC Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM). The MCDS coordinates the activities of maritime meteorological and oceanographic data systems, and since 2019 the former GCCs are working as Voluntary Observing Ship Global Data Assembly Centres (VOS-GDACs) in this new system.

Port Meteorological Officers (PMOs) collect global data stored on the ships and carry out a standardized minimum quality control (MQCS). Data is forwarded to the VOS-GDACs. The VOS-GDACs verify that quality control is carried out properly, support countries in case of issues with data supply or quality control, archive the data and make them available for download in CDC on a quarterly basis. The regular data exchange is done since 1996. The oldest observations date back to 1982.

gmd:MD_Metadata

File identifier
de.dwd.gcc.mqc_data   XML
Metadata language
English English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2024-04-19T06:38:12
Metadata standard name
WMO Core Metadata Profile of ISO 19115 (WMO Core), 2003/Cor.1:2006 (ISO 19115), 2007 (ISO/TS 19139)
Metadata standard version
1.3

  Point of contact

Deutscher Wetterdienst - VOS-GDAC VOS-GDAC VOS-GDAC (Data Manager )  
Bernhard-Nocht-Str.76 Hamburg 20359 Germany

  +49 69 8062 6212  
  +49 69 8062 6249 
Dataset URI
de.dwd.gcc.mqc_data
 
 

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