WMO No. 47 - International List of Voluntary Observing Ships

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Contents of Pub47

This edition of the International List of Selected, Supplementary and Auxiliary Ships contains information about the ships participating in the WMO Voluntary Observing Ships Scheme.  Information has been supplied by the countries which have recruited ships within the framework of this programme, in accordance with regulation 2.3.3.3 and 2.3.3.4 as contained in WMO Publication No. 544 - Manual on the Global Observing System, Volume I, Part III

New Metadata Format Version 03 (Semi-colon delimited exchange format)

• List of Voluntary Observing Ships - 2nd quarter (data file as at 30 June 2008)

• List of Voluntary Observing Ships - 1st quarter (data file as at 31 March 2008)

• List of contributors - quarterly files

     - 2008

     - 2007

Pub 47 version 3 documentation (effective 1 July 2007)

Pub 47 XML schema for version 3 (effective 1 July 2007)

Previous Metadata Format Version 02 (Semi-colon delimited exchange format)

• Record layout of data files

• Code tables for data files

• Ships' routes for data files

• List of contributors - last quarterly file update

• List of Voluntary Observing Ships - 1st quarter (data file as at 31 March 2007)