NOAA NCDC GHCN v2 adjusted
adjusted from NOAA NCDC GHCN v2: Monthly weather station temperature data from the Global Historical Climate Network.
Documents
| overview | an outline showing sub-datasets of this dataset |
Datasets and variables
| Max | NOAA NCDC GHCN v2 adjusted Max[temp
]
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| mean | NOAA NCDC GHCN v2 adjusted mean[temp
]
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| Min | NOAA NCDC GHCN v2 adjusted Min[temp
]
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Independent Variables (Grids)
| station | grid: /IWMO (ids) ordered [ (1001000) (1005001) (1008000) ... (99914001)] N= 7280 pts :grid
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| time | grid: /T (months since 1960-01-01) ordered (Jan 1835) to (Dec 2008) by 1. N= 2088 pts :grid
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| version | grid: /VER (unitless) ordered (0.0) to (6.) by 1. N= 7 pts :grid
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References
Vose, R. S., Richard L. Schmoyer, Peter M. Steurer, Thomas C. Peterson, Richard Heim, Thomas R. Karl, and J. Eischeid, 1992: The Global Historical Climatology Network: long-term monthly temperature, precipitation, sea level pressure, and station pressure data. ORNL/CDIAC-53, NDP-041. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Easterling, D.R. and T.C. Peterson, 1995: The effect of artificial discontinuities on recent trends in minimum and maximum temperatures. Atmospheric Research, 37, 19-26.
Easterling, David R. and Thomas C. Peterson, 1995: A new method for detecting and adjusting for undocumented discontinuities in climatological time series. International Journal of Climatology, 15, 369-377.
Easterling, David R., Thomas C. Peterson, and Thomas R. Karl, 1996: On the development and use of homogenized climate data sets. Journal of Climate, 9, 1429-1434.
Peterson, Thomas C. and David R. Easterling, 1994: Creation of homogeneous composite climatological reference series. International Journal of Climatology, 14, 671-679.
Peterson, Thomas C. and Russell S. Vose, 1997: An overview of the Global Historical Climatology Network temperature data base, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 78, 2837-2849.
Peterson, Thomas C., Russell S. Vose, Richard Schmoyer, and Vyachevslav Razuvaev, 1997: Quality control of monthly temperature data: The GHCN experience. International Journal of Climatology, submitted.
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