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NCC U.S. 3- and 6-Hourly Station Data, July 1969-September 1976

Station data from 255 U.S. surface stations are archived in this dataset. Station observation data include temperature, dewpoint, wind, visibility, weather, and clouds. Prio to October 1972, observation data are available at 6-hourly intervals, and from October 1972 on, they are available at 3-hourly intervals. The station reports also include 6-hourly precipitation amounts and daily maximum temperature.



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PERIODS: 1969-07 to 1976-09
VARIABLES:
Cloud Amount/FrequencyDew Point TemperaturePrecipitation AmountSnow
Surface Air TemperatureSurface WindsVisibility 
LEVELS:
Ground or water surface
TYPES: Platform Observations
COVERAGE:
SOURCES: DOC/NOAA/NWS/OST/MDL
Meteorological Development Laboratory, Office of Science and Technology, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
PUBLICATIONS: 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 ds521.0."
VOLUME: 89.26 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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