dataset: NOAA NCDC CIRS nClimDiv v1

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NOAA NCDC CIRS nClimDiv v1

NOAA NCDC CIRS nClimDiv v1: Time bias corrected temperature, precipitation, and drought index data for United States climate divisions from the National Climatic Data Center.

Documents

outline	an outline showing all sub-datasets and variables contained in this dataset
drought variables	Readme file describing drought variables and their format
format of divisional data	Readme file describing format of divisional data files
nClimDiv overview	PDF presentation: An Overview of NCDC's New Climate Division Dataset
source	original ftp server
transition to nClimDiv	Readme file describing transition from Climate Divisions dataset to nClimDiv

Datasets and variables

cooling degree days	NOAA NCDC CIRS nClimDiv v1 cdd[ T \| IDIV]
division area	NOAA NCDC CIRS nClimDiv v1 divarea[ IDIV \|]
heating degree days	NOAA NCDC CIRS nClimDiv v1 hdd[ T \| IDIV]
latitude	NOAA NCDC CIRS nClimDiv v1 lat[ IDIV \|]
location	NOAA NCDC CIRS nClimDiv v1 location[ \| IDIV]
longitude	NOAA NCDC CIRS nClimDiv v1 lon[ IDIV \|]
precipitation	NOAA NCDC CIRS nClimDiv v1 pcp[ T \| IDIV]
palmer dsi	NOAA NCDC CIRS nClimDiv v1 pdsi[ T \| IDIV]
palmer hdi	NOAA NCDC CIRS nClimDiv v1 phdi[ T \| IDIV]
modified palmer dsi	NOAA NCDC CIRS nClimDiv v1 pmdi[ T \| IDIV]
1-month standardized precipitation index	NOAA NCDC CIRS nClimDiv v1 sp01[ T \| IDIV]
2-month standardized precipitation index	NOAA NCDC CIRS nClimDiv v1 sp02[ T \| IDIV]
3-month standardized precipitation index	NOAA NCDC CIRS nClimDiv v1 sp03[ T \| IDIV]
6-month standardized precipitation index	NOAA NCDC CIRS nClimDiv v1 sp06[ T \| IDIV]
9-month standardized precipitation index	NOAA NCDC CIRS nClimDiv v1 sp09[ T \| IDIV]
12-month standardized precipitation index	NOAA NCDC CIRS nClimDiv v1 sp12[ T \| IDIV]
state id	NOAA NCDC CIRS nClimDiv v1 stateid[ IDIV \|]
state weights	NOAA NCDC CIRS nClimDiv v1 stateweights[ IDIV \| state]
temperature	NOAA NCDC CIRS nClimDiv v1 tmp[ T \| IDIV]
palmer zindex	NOAA NCDC CIRS nClimDiv v1 zndx[ T \| IDIV]

Independent Variables (Grids)

climate division	grid: /IDIV (ids) ordered [ (101) (102) (103) ... (4810)] N= 344 pts :grid
time	grid: /T (months since 1960-01-01) ordered (Jan 1895) to (Mar 2017) by 1.0 N= 1467 pts :grid

Other Info

iridl:hasSemantics: iridl:Climate_Division

Last updated: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 20:27:28 GMT

Data Views

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