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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

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NOAA[NESDIS NCEP NCDC NODC NCEP-NCAR NCEI PSL ESRL NCEP-DOE NGDC ]
NOAA NCDC[OISST CM GCPS PDO CDR Paleo USHCN ERSST GHCN GDCN DAILY CIRS SSMI GHCN_Daily ]
NOAA ESRL[PSD ]
NOAA NCEP EMC CFSv2[NMME_REALTIME_ENSEMBLE HINDCAST_CLIMATOLOGY ENSEMBLE 6_hourly_rotating REALTIME_ENSEMBLE MONTHLY MONTHLY_REALTIME ]
NOAA NCDC USHCN[urban lat cfv Name lon elev filnet raw state statediv tos ]