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TDL U.S. and Canada Surface Hourly Observations, daily 1976Dec-cont

Hourly airways data over US, Canada for about 1,000 stations. There are also some observations for Mexico and most Central American countries.


PERIODS: 1976-12 to 2008-01
UPDATES: half-yearly
VARIABLES:
Cloud Amount/FrequencyCloud BaseDew Point TemperatureMaximum/Minimum Temperature
Precipitation AmountSea Level PressureSnowSnow Depth
SunshineSurface Air TemperatureSurface PressureSurface Winds
Visibility   
LEVELS:
Ground or water surface
TIMES: Every hour
TYPES: Platform Observation
SOURCES: DOC/NOAA/NWS/OST/MDL
Meteorological Development Laboratory, Office of Science and Technology, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
PUBLICATIONS: Vincent, Lucie A., Wijngaarden W., Hopkinson, R., 2007: Surface Temperature and Humidity Trends in Canada for 1953-2005. J. of Climate, 20, 5100-5113.

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 ds472.0."
VOLUME: 51.04 GBytes (Entire dataset)
Volume details by subset
DATA FORMATS: ASCII (see dataset documentation)
CONTACT: For assistance with this dataset, please contact Joey Comeaux (303-497-1256) . If the specialist is unavailable, please contact Data Help.
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