Compiled by Dennis Shea CAS/CGD/NCAR August, 1993 TABLE 1 DSS ID Datasets Containing Precipitation ds207.0 RAND composite datasets (Moeller precip climatology) ds209.2 Bunker Climate Atlas of the N.Atlantic Ocean ds235.0 U.S.S.R. N.Hem Sfc Press and Precip Anoms, monthly 1873-1979 ds236.0 Legates/Willmott's .5 deg Global Temp and Precip Anals, monthly ds237.0 Willmott's Terrestrial Water Budget, monthly ds238.0 DOE Precip: Mean + Anomalies ds279.0 Samuels and Cox' GFDL Global Oceanographic Data Set Atlas ds290.0 Shea's Climatology Atlas, 1950-1979 (from DSS sets) ds302.4 Krishnamurti's MONEX Region Precip Anals, 1979May-Jul ds309.0 Goddard's IIIb Anals for FGGE, SOP1 and 2 1979 ds318.0 Assorted Climate Model Output ds388.0 GATE Global Upper Air and Sfc Obs, 1974Jun-Sep ds388.1 CEDDA GATE Global Upper Air and Sfc Obs, 1974Jun-Sep ds463.0 NCDC U.S.A.F. DATSAV TD9685 Global Sfc Obs, daily 1967-1980 ds464.0 NMC ADP Global Sfc Obs, daily Jul1976-con ds466.0 Sadler's Pacific Island Precip, monthly 1965-1972 ds467.0 TD13 Global Sfc Obs, daily 1899-1970 [USAF] ds468.0 NCDC TD9685 and TD9686 Global Sfc Obs Gap Filler, 1975Sep ds468.1 U.S.A.F. DATSAV Global Sfc Obs Gap Filler, 1975Sep ds469.0 Canadian Sfc Obs, daily 1963Sep-1972 ds480.0 India Precip, daily 1901-1970 (monthly DS575.0) ds480.1 India Precip, daily 1975-1984 ds481.0 India Precip, wkly 1979-1985 ds482.0 Australia Precip, daily monthly 1939-1982 ds483.0 Malaysia,Thailand and Indonesia Sfc Obs, daily 1951-1985 ds485.0 China Precip, daily 1951-1982 ds491.0 Denver,CO and Buckley U.S.A.F. Sfc Obs, hrly 1948-1972 ds501.0 Boulder,CO Sfc Obs (precip and max-min temps), daily 1897-1976 ds505.0 NCDC TD3240 U.S. Control Coop Hourly Precip, daily 1948-1988 ds508.0 Amos Eddy's U.S. Sfc Anals, daily 1881-1985 ds509.0 NCDC TD3210 U.S. 1st Order Summary of Day, 1884(1948)-1987Jul ds510.0 NCDC TD3200 U.S. Control Summary of Day, 1890(1948)-1991 ds510.1 NCDC U.S. Pan Evaporation, daily 1948-1978 ds510.2 Texas Sfc Obs, daily monthly 1900-1973 ds510.4 NCDC U.S. Summary of Day, various stations 1890-1970 ds512.0 CAC Global CEAS Summary of Day/Month Obs, 1979-1989Jun ds514.0 China Summary of Day (for FGGE?), 1979May-Sep ds515.0 GATE ASECNA Africa Precip, daily 1974 ds516.0 Canada Summary of Day ds517.0 Northeast Brazil Precip, daily 1910-1974 (thru Geisler) ds518.0 Japan Summary of Day, 1951-1989 ds520.0 NMC U.S. WBAN-3 Summary of Day, 1948-1963 ds522.0 Shea's Summary of Day Collection (from DSS sets) ds523.0 Australia Summary of Day and Sfc Obs, 1939(1957)-1982 ds565.0 U.S. Historical Climatology Net (HCN) Temp and Precip, 1880-1987 ds569.0 U.S. DOE Global Monthly Station Temp and Precip, 1738-1980 ds570.0 World Monthly Surface Station Climatology ds570.1 World Weather Records, 1961-1970, 1971-1980 ds570.3 CAC TD9643 U.S. Station Temp and Precip, monthly 1981-1983 ds571.0 Nicholson's Africa Precip, monthly 1901-1975 ds572.0 Harnack's S.American Precip, monthly 1891-1983 ds573.0 CAC Ctrl.Pacific Island Precip, monthly up to 1980 (thru Shea) ds574.0 U.S. Sfc Monthly Station Normals, 1941-1980 ds575.0 India Precip, monthly 1901-1970 (thru Shea) ds576.0 Canadian Monthly Station Temp and Precip (thru Shea) ds578.0 China Monthly Station Precip, 1951-1980 (thru Shukla) ds579.0 Mongolia Summary of Month, 1936-1983 ds580.0 Malaysian ASEAN Climatic Atlas, up to 1975 (thru Krishnamurti) ds673.0 NMC Nimbus-5 Sea Ice and Rain Rate (ESMR) data, 1975Jan-Feb ds701.5 Global Oceanic precip from MSU (jan79 - apr92) (Spencer) ds728.0 NOAA GPCP (sync) Precip Estimates 38.75N to 38.75S (2.5 deg) ds729.0 Chang SSMI Estimates 5 deg 50N to 50S night and day ds768.0 Cogley and Briggs' Global Precip Climatology and Topography, 1 deg ds865.0 Limpert's GSFC Precip Temp and Derived Soil Moisture Anals ds891.0 U.S.S.R. Various Anals and Obs, 1891-1986 TABLE 2 Datasets containing Monthly Precipitation (P) Temperature (T), sea level pressure (SLP),station pressure (STP) NCAR No. Max. ID Region Stations T P SLP STP Period DS238.0 Globe 5560 -- x -- -- 1899--1983 DS565.0 USA 1200 x x -- -- 1880--1987 DS570.0 Global 4400 x x x x 1731--1990 DS571.0 Africa 1000 -- x -- -- 1880--1973 DS572.0 S. America 680 -- x -- -- 1891--1983 DS574.0 USA 3900 x x -- -- 1941--1980 DS575.0 India 4000 -- x -- -- 1901--1970 DS576.0 Canada 3900 x x -- -- 1831--1989 DS577.0 Australia 10000 -- x -- -- 1831--1982 DS578.0 China 90 -- x -- -- 1951--1980 TABLE 3 Datasets containing Daily Precipitation [Many contain Tmin and Tmax] NCAR NO. MAX. ID AREA STA. PERIOD TYPE ORDER VOL DS463 Global 7500 1967-1980 D S L DS467 Global 7-10,000 1899-1970 D T L DS480 India 4000 1901-1970 D T M DS483 Malaysia 111 1951-1985 D T S Thailand 52 1951-1985 DS510 USA 11,000 1888-1990 D T L Pacific Is. Caribbean DS512 Global 7500 1979-6/89 MD TS M DS516 Canada 7800 1874-1979 D T L DS518 Japan 110 1951-1989 D T S DS523 Australia 10,000 1939-1982 D T M DS565 USA (HCN) 1200 1880-1987 M T M TABLE 3 description: NCAR ID indicates NCAR's internal dataset identifier; AREA indicates the primary geographical location of the data; NO. STA. indicates the approximate number of stations; PERIOD specifies the time spanned by the data set; Type means D for daily and M for monthly; ORDER indicates the manner of archiving where T means time series order and S means synoptic order; VOL indicates whether the data set is small (S), medium (M) or large (L) where S means the data may be contained on one 6250 tape; M means 2-10 tapes and L means more than 10 tapes. TABLE 4 Large--Scale Precipitation Data Sets NCAR Resolution Base Interannual ID Source (degrees) Coverage Period Variability DS207.0 RAND 4 by 5 global no DS236.0 Legates/Willmott 0.5 global 1920--80 no DS238.0 DOE 4 by 5 land 1951--89 anomailes [1899-1989] DS290.0 Shea (NCAR) 2.5 global 1950--79 yes DS701.5 Spencer 2.5 ocean 1979--92 no DS728.0 NOAA (Arkin) 2.5-5 38.75 1986--91 no DS7XX.0 Chang no DS768.0 Cogley/Briggs 1 global yes DS865.0 Jaeger 4 by 5 global 1931--65 no