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 04 (Semi-colon delimited exchange format)

• List of Voluntary Observing Ships - 3rd quarter (data file as at 30 September 2013)
• List of Voluntary Observing Ships - 2nd quarter (data file as at 30 June 2013)
• Informal E-SURFMAR copy of the List of Voluntary Observing Ships (more recent data)

Pub 47 version 4.2 documentation (effective 1 November 2015)

Previous Metadata Format Version 4.0

Pub 47 version 4 documentation (effective 1 June 2013)
Pub 47 XML schema for version 4 (effective 1 June 2013)

Past editions available here

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

• List of Voluntary Observing Ships - 3rd quarter (data file as at 30 Sept. 2010)
• List of contributors - quarterly files

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

Old 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)