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

Data Views

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