NCEP Central Operations

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Supplementary Climatological Data Decoder

IMPORTANT: If you haven't already done so, be sure to read the overview document that contains information relevant to all of the NCEP decoders!

The NCEP Supplementary Climatological Data Decoder parses reports of the following format into the NCEP Decoder Interface Format:

Supplementary Observations National Weather Service Observing Handbook No. 7 Part IV

Related Documents:

The NCEP Decoder Interface Format - a fairly detailed description of the output format that is used by all of the NCEP decoders, including examples of how to easily re-encode this output into your own desired final format
Interface Output from the NCEP Supplementary Climatological Data Decoder - a tabular listing of all of the decoded values available within the interface format output from the NCEP SCD Decoder

Change History Log:

Version	Date	Summary of Changes
1.1	9/21/2000	Initial version
1.2	2/6/2001	Version 1.2 Changes
1.3	11/6/2001	Version 1.3 Changes
1.4	4/19/2004	Version 1.4 Changes
1.5	2/17/2006	Version 1.5 Changes

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