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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[mean prcp Min Max ]
NOAA NCDC USHCN elev[ ID |]
NOAA NCDC USHCN filnet[mean calc_mean Min prcp 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 calc_mean Min prcp Max ]
NOAA NCDC USHCN urban[mean calc_mean Min 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

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NOAA[NCEI NESDIS NCEP NCEP-NCAR NODC NGDC ESRL NCDC NCEP-DOE PSL ]
NOAA NCDC[SSMI ERSST GDCN DAILY USHCN Paleo CM OISST CDR CIRS GHCN_Daily PDO GCPS GHCN ]
NOAA NCEP CPC[PRECL GSOD GHCN_CAMS EVE GTS REGIONAL UNIFIED_PRCP Merged_Analysis CA_SST CLIMAT DailyEVE Indices CAMS CBO_V1 GOB FEWS CAMS_OPI temperature GLOBAL GMSM CMORPH ]
NOAA NCDC USHCN[cfv elev Name lon urban filnet state raw statediv tos lat ]