ERD OCEANOGRAPHIC AND ATMOSPHERIC PRODUCTS
Access to COADS Data
The information contained in COADS is extremely useful for a variety
of areas of research, but for a number of reasons access to the dataset
can be difficult when time series are desired for given local areas,
rather than synoptic products. COADS Release 1 is sorted by time;
obtaining time series requires reading the entire dataset. Simple,
user-friendly software to produce time series of the data also is not
available. And a number of studies have shown that access to the raw
data is important for developing reliable time series of from the COADS
data.
To solve these problems, the CEOS Project reorganized the CMR.5 version
of COADS and stored all of it by area on CD-ROM. CEOS also
developed the CODE program to quickly access, process, and summarize
the stored data. CODE provides the means, variances, and number of
observations for selected parameters from a specified ocean region
within a chosen time period. The program creates an output file that
can be easily imported into spreadsheet and graphics applications for
additional editing, analysis, and display.
