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End-of-Day Temperature and Precipitation for Long-Period U.S. and Canadian Stations
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Daily maximum and minimum temperature (MAX_T and MIN_T) and precipitation amount (PRCIP) are available for 497 U.S. and Canadian stations, which were extracted from other DSS datasets because of their long periods of record. The general period of record is 1874 to 1979, but it varies by individual station. For the U.S. stations, no period is shorter than 29 years, with most being much longer. There is more variation in the periods of the Canadian stations. For specific station information, you should view the inventories. Most users will probably want to use the ASCII record format, but a packed-binary version of the data is also available.
For more information about the data itself, please see the source datasets. The Texas stations were extracted from ds510.2. The other U.S. stations were selected from ds510.4, ds520.0, and ds521.0. The Canadian stations are from ds516.0.
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| PERIODS: |
1874-10-01 to 1979-12-31
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| VARIABLES: |
| Maximum/Minimum Temperature | Precipitation Amount |
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| TYPES: |
Platform Observation
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| COVERAGE: |
See the detailed metadata for coverage information
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| SOURCES: |
UCAR/NCAR/CGD/CAS Climate Analysis Section, Climate and Global Dynamics Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
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| 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 ds522.0."
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| VOLUME: |
228.33 MBytes
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| DATA FORMATS: |
ASCII (see dataset documentation)
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| RELATED DATASETS: |
ds510.2 - Daily and Monthly Texas Surface Observations, 1898-1975
ds510.4 - NCDC U.S. Summary of Day, various stations 1890-1970
ds516.0 - Canada Summary of Day, 1890-1979
ds520.0 - NMC U.S. WBAN-3 Summary of Day, 1948-1963
ds521.0 - NCC U.S. 3- and 6-Hourly Station Data, July 1969-September 1976
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| MORE DETAILS: |
View more details for this dataset, including dataset citation, data contributors, and other detailed metadata
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| CONTACT: |
For assistance with this dataset, please contact
Bob Dattore (303-497-1825)
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Data Help.
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| DATA ACCESS: |
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