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

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