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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[calc_mean Min Max mean prcp ]



NOAA NCDC USHCN raw[Min Max mean prcp ]


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

Independent Variables (Grids)

StationID grid: /ID (ids) ordered [ (18178)] :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

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NOAA NCDC USHCN[ ]