1. THE KOBE COLLECTION Yasuhiro MINAMOTO Office Of Marine Prediction
Marine Division
Climate And Marine Department
Japan Meteorological Agency

2. What is the Kobe Collection?
collected by the Kobe Marine Observatory
period
observed by merchant ships, fishing boats, and research vessels.
amount 6.8 million.

3. Sample of Log sheet (by merchant ship)

4. Digitization projects
Joint Project with NOAA. ( )
after 1933, about 2.7 million
not available about 1.0 million
rest →
Joint Project with Nippon Foundation and JWA (1995- continue)
before 1932, about 3.1 million,

5. Progress of Digitization
QC incomplete ↓

6. Progress of data distribution

7. Progress of data distribution

8. data distribution of the Kobe Collection

9. Progress of data distribution 1920-1929
COADS Release1 (1985)
COADS Release1c (2001)
COADS R1 +Kobe(1998)
COADS R1c +Kobe2001

10. Digitization procedure
１．Select microfilms and print out.
２．Coding and typing them into interim-file format.
３．Convert to IMMT-1 format (WMO).
４．Quality control by Minimum Quality Control Standard of WMO.
５．Publication in CD-ROM. (2001 edition is latest)

11. SST :ratio of flag 2,3 and 4 is about 2%
Quality control
Flag
example: SST
SST :ratio of flag 2,3 and 4 is about 2%

12. Meta data : barometer height

15. Sea Surface Temperature (4S,150W-4N,80W)
Cloud amount anomaly (10N,110E-20N,140E)

16. the progress schedule The digitization project will be finished FY2003
Convert Data format for historical marine data 　　　( IMMT → IMMA)
final CD-ROM will be published in 2004

17. Navy data period 1903-1944 collected by the Imperial Japanese NAVY
observed by Navy vessels.
amount 5.0 million.
JMA is converting these Navy data from micro films to magnetic media.

18. Thank you for your attention
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Thank you for your attention
You can get copies of “the Kobe collection” CD-ROM 2001 edition on the table behind the door.