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

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[NGDC NESDIS NCEP NCDC NODC NCEP-NCAR NCEI PSL ESRL NCEP-DOE ]
NOAA NCDC[DAILY CIRS SSMI GHCN_Daily CDR OISST CM GCPS PDO GHCN Paleo USHCN ERSST GDCN ]
NOAA NCDC[DAILY CIRS SSMI GHCN_Daily CDR OISST CM GCPS PDO GHCN Paleo USHCN ERSST GDCN ]
NOAA NCEP-NCAR CDAS-1[DAILY pc9120 MONTHLY mc6190 mc9120 pc8110 mc8110 mc7100 pc7100 pc6190 pc9920 pc9913 ]
NOAA NCDC USHCN[raw statediv lat tos cfv Name lon state elev filnet urban ]