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[calc_mean mean Max Min prcp ]
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[calc_mean mean Max Min prcp ]
NOAA NCDC USHCN urban[Max calc_mean 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

Data Views

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NOAA[NCEP ESRL NCEI NESDIS NCEP-NCAR NGDC NODC NCDC NCEP-DOE PSL ]
NOAA NCDC[GCPS CM GHCN_Daily GDCN CIRS SSMI Paleo OISST DAILY USHCN CDR ERSST GHCN PDO ]
NOAA PSL ROMI[cpc-olr frozen real-time ]
NOAA NCDC USHCN[statediv raw filnet cfv Name lon urban tos state lat elev ]