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Global Air Temperature and Precipitation Climatologies, by Willmott et al.
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Cort J. Willmott, Kenji Matsuura and David R. Legates
(Center for Climate Research, University of Deleware),
created a new version of this dataset (version 2.01)
in November 1998. You may find more recent data at the
Willmott site.
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| PERIODS: |
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| VARIABLES: |
| Air Temperature | Precipitation Amount |
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| TIMES: |
Monthly Climatology
Annual Climatology
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| TYPES: |
Grid
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| COVERAGE: |
Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=89.75S Northernmost=89.75N
 Detailed coverage information Detailed coverage information:
0.5° x 0.5°, 179.75W to 179.75E and 89.75S to 89.75N (721 x 361 Longitude/Latitude)
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| SOURCES: |
UDEL/GEOG/CCR Center For Climate Research, Department of Geography, University of Delaware
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| PUBLICATIONS: |
Willmott, C.J. and K. Matsuura, 1995: Smart Interpolation of Annually Averaged Air Temperature in the United States. J. Appl. Meteor., 34, 2577-2586.
Legates, D.R., and C.J. Willmott, 1990: Mean seasonal and spatial variability in gauge corrected, global precipitation. Int. J. Climatol., 10, 111-127.
Recommended acknowledgement for this dataset:
"The data for this study are from the Research Data Archive (RDA) which is maintained by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). NCAR is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The original data are available from the RDA (http://dss.ucar.edu) in dataset number ds236.0."
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| VOLUME: |
50.11 MBytes
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| DATA FORMATS: |
ASCII (see dataset documentation)
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| CONTACT: |
For assistance with this dataset, please contact
Steve Worley (303-497-1248)
. If the specialist is unavailable, please contact
Data Help.
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