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ICOADS, 2-degree, Enhanced, Monthly, 1800-present

Published by NOAA NMFS SWFSC Environmental Research Division | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: January 27, 2026 | Last Modified: 2022-09-02T00:00:00.000+00:00
This dataset has the 2-degree, Global, Enhanced, simple gridded monthly summary product (1800 to present) from the International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS), the most extensive collection of surface marine data. Temporal Coverage: * Monthly values for 1800/01 - 2007/12. * Preliminary monthly values for 2008/01 - present. IMPORTANT: The time period of these products is defined in two segments. 1. Release 2.5 1800 through 2007 2. Following the Release 2.5 end date data are based exclusively on real-time GTS data with minimal quality control. These data should be considered preliminary and will be subject to change in new releases.

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describedByType application/octet-steam
identifier esrlIcoads2ge
isPartOf ICOADS
issued 2022-09-02T00:00:00.000+00:00
landingPage https://icoads.noaa.gov/data.icoads.html
language []
spatial 180.0,-89.0,-180.0,89.0
temporal 1800-01-01T00:00:00+00:00/2022-06-01T00:00:00+00:00

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