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CDIAC U.S. Historical Climatology Network (HCN) Daily Temperature, Precipitation, and Snow Observations for 1871-1997

This dataset contains daily observations of maximum and minimum temperature, precipitation, snowfall, and snow depth for 1062 observing stations in the lower 48 United States. These stations are part of the U.S. Historical Climatology Network, which is a National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) database.

We have obtained these data from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center's (CDIAC) ftp server.


PERIODS: 1871-01 to 1997-12
VARIABLES:
Maximum/Minimum TemperaturePrecipitation AmountSnowSnow Depth
LEVELS:
Ground or water surface
TIMES: Every day
TYPES: Platform Observation
SOURCES: DOE/ORNL/ESD/CDIAC
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U. S. Department of Energy
DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC
National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
RELATED SITES: The NDP070 dataset on CDIAC's ftp server
VOLUME: 1.54 GBytes
FORMATS: ASCII (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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