The following are documents recently imaged through an effort at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). NCDC holds over 2000 cubic 
feet of foreign records in paper format of in-situ weather observations in the on-site physical archives. The data files included are 
digital photographs of records in this collection. NCDC federal and contract employees captured the images using NCDC-owned digital 
cameras. All photos are in JPEG format.

The images contain in-situ observations from all areas of the globe other than the United States. African observations were the 
initial geographic area of concentration in the imaging effort but have grown to include other continents and regions. The 
collection consists of weather observations that were taken almost exclusively between 1885 and 1975. The text within the images 
are in various languages.

A worldwide community of scientists will benefit from this effort, which is part of a global effort to discover, scan and key missing 
in-situ data. The data from the images will eventually be added to integrated global datasets, including baseline datasets at NCDC.

This directory contains the following:
- 45 tar files containing images of the data
- An inventory file describing the files that were recently examined at NCDC (the ones highlighted in yellow have been imaged)
- An example .csv file describing the preferable format of the data if these images were to be digitized

Data was uploaded on 23 Jul 2012 by Jared Rennie