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NCEP CPC Hourly Gridded Precipitation for the United States

Hourly and daily precipitation analyses for 1963 to 1994 on a 2.5-degree by 2-degree grid over North America.

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PERIODS:

1963 to 1994

VARIABLES:

Precipitation Amount

LEVELS:

Ground or water surface

TYPES:

Grid

COVERAGE:

Longitude Range: Westernmost=140W Easternmost=60W
Latitude Range: Southernmost=20N Northernmost=60N

Detailed coverage information

Detailed coverage information:
2.5° x 2°, 140W to 60W and 20N to 60N (33 x 21 Longitude/Latitude)

SOURCES:

DOC/NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC

Climate Prediction Center, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce

PUBLICATIONS:

Higgins, R.W., J.E. Janowiak, and Y. Yao, 1996: A gridded hourly precipitation database for the U.S. (1963-1993). NCEP/CPC Atlas No. 1, Climate Prediction Center, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, 47 pp.

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 ds507.0."

VOLUME:

808.24 MBytes

DATA FORMATS:

Binary (see dataset documentation)

CONTACT:

For assistance with this dataset, please contact Bob Dattore (303-497-1825) . If the specialist is unavailable, please contact Data Help.

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