Single 66-page document entitled 'Station history COOP Rework via WSSRD and stragglers NC4 & NC3: Keying Rules,' dated December 12, 2003. Contractors with NCDC's Climate Database Modernization Program (CDMP) used this document to key the index fields for the 'Cooperative Station History Forms' library. The detailed guidelines ensured consistent entries from the many data entry contractors that worked on the task.

Records documenting the business, membership, and meetings of the American Association of State Climatologists, from 1976-92. Material donated in 2008 by the estate of former AASC president Paul Waite

Manuals and instructions for taking weather observations. Includes the annual Weather Bureau 'Instructions for Preparing Meteorological Forms...' and early airways descriptions from the 1920s and 1930s prepared by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce.

The National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and its predecessors have produced internal publications, known as Office Notes, since the mid-1950's. In the early years they were mostly unreviewed manuscripts, which were used to inform others about current operations and research. Later, they were used as first drafts for papers which were being prepared for submission to more formal, external, literary publications.

Climate Database Modernization Program contractor documentation of batches scanned. Details include the name of the operator, time/date of scans, duplicates, rescanning, and other issues encountered.

Satellite instrumentation descriptions, calibration and user manuals produced by NOAA, NASA, and their contractors.

Instructions for observing and recording radiosonde, pilot balloon and other in-situ observations above the earth's surface. Includes Weather Bureau Circular O.

Supporting documentation for the Maury Collection of marine observations. Includes explanations from Maury himself, as well as guides and descriptions by the U.S. Weather Bureau, and the German and Japanese meteorological services.

Various publications and other instructions for taking marine weather observations. includes Weather Service Observing Handbook No. 1, Weather Bureau Circular M, and 19th century 'Instructions for Keeping the Marine Meteorological Journal.' Original paper records housed at NCDC, the NOAA Central Library, and the National Archives.

Documentation for using and reading punched cards kept at the National Weather Records Center (NWRC, previous name for NCDC and NCEI). Many of these punched card sets were among the first NCDC digital data sets. Manuals dated from the mid-1940s to the early 1970s.