NOAA NCDC United States Historical Climatology Network

NOAA NCDC United States Historical Climatology Network: Monthly averaged maximum, minimum, and mean temperature and total monthly precipitation from stations in the United States.

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Datasets and variables

NOAA NCDC USHCN cfv[mean prcp Min Max ]
NOAA NCDC USHCN elev[ ID |]
NOAA NCDC USHCN filnet[mean prcp Min calc_mean Max ]
NOAA NCDC USHCN lat[ ID |]
NOAA NCDC USHCN lon[ ID |]
NOAA NCDC USHCN Name[ ID |]
NOAA NCDC USHCN raw[mean prcp Min Max ]
NOAA NCDC USHCN state[ ID |]
NOAA NCDC USHCN statediv[ ID |]
NOAA NCDC USHCN tos[mean prcp Min calc_mean Max ]
NOAA NCDC USHCN urban[mean Min calc_mean Max ]

Independent Variables (Grids)

StationID grid: /ID (ids) ordered [ (11084) (12813) (13160) ... (489905)] N= 1221 pts :grid
time grid: /T (months since 1960-01-01) ordered (0011 1 Jan 1695 - 0011 1 Feb 1695) to (Dec 1996) by 0.9999999 N= 3624 pts :grid

References

Karl, T.R., C.N. Williams, Jr., F.T. Quinlan, and T.A. Boden, 1990: United States Historical Climatology Network (HCN) Serial Temperature and Precipitation Data, Environmental Science Division, Publication No. 3404, Carbon Dioxide Information and Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 389 pp.

Last updated: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:27:44 GMT

Data Views

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NOAA[NCEP-DOE NESDIS ESRL NCEP-NCAR NCEP PSL NODC NGDC NCDC NCEI ]
NOAA NCDC GHCN_Daily version1[TMIN QCTMAX STNID3 DMTMIN Name DMPCPN PCPN elev TMAX lon DMTMAX QCTMIN STN_CODE STNID2 CC QCPCPN lat WMOID ]
NOAA NCDC USHCN[cfv Name state lon elev filnet urban raw lat tos statediv ]