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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 filnet[Min Max mean prcp calc_mean ]



NOAA NCDC USHCN raw[Min Max mean prcp ]


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

Independent Variables (Grids)

StationID grid: /ID (ids) ordered [ (17366)] :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: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 20:27:28 GMT

Data Views

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NOAA[NGDC NCEP-NCAR NODC NCEP-DOE NCEP NESDIS PSL NCDC NCEI ESRL ]
NOAA NCEP-NCAR[CDAS-1 Reference_Data ]
NOAA NCEP-NCAR CDAS-1[mc7100 pc8110 pc9920 DAILY pc9120 mc6190 pc9913 MONTHLY mc9120 mc8110 pc6190 pc7100 ]
NOAA NCEP-NCAR CDAS-1 MONTHLY Intrinsic[PressureLevel MSL surface total_air_column ]
NOAA NCDC USHCN[tos lon raw filnet cfv statediv elev state urban Name lat ]