NOAA NCDC GHCN v2 raw Min temp

raw Min temp from NOAA NCDC GHCN v2: Monthly weather station temperature data from the Global Historical Climate Network.

Independent Variables (Grids)

station
grid: /IWMO (ids) ordered [ (1001000) (1005001) (1008000) ... (99914001)] N= 7280 pts :grid
time
grid: /T (months since 1960-01-01) ordered (Jan 1840) to (Nov 2013) by 1.0 N= 2087 pts :grid

Other Info

datatype
shortarraytype
missing_value
-9999
scale_factor
0.1
units
Celsius_scale
standard units*
degree_Kelvin above 273.15

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.

Last updated: Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:51:52 GMT

Data Views

IWMOT
[ T | IWMO]MM


Filters

Here are some filters that are useful for manipulating data. There are actually many more available, but they have to be entered manually. See Ingrid Function Documentation for more information. Average over T IWMO | T IWMO |
RMS (root mean square with mean *not* removed) over T IWMO | T IWMO |
RMSA (root mean square with mean removed) over T IWMO | T IWMO |
Maximum over T IWMO | T IWMO |
Minimum over T IWMO | T IWMO |
Detrend (best-fit-line) over T IWMO | T IWMO |
Convert units from Celsius_scale to

Note on units