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