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U.S. Historical Climatology Network (HCN) Temperature and Precipitation, 1880-1994

The Historical Climatology Network (HCN) was established in part to aid in the detection of regional climate change. Some of the HCN stations are first-order weather stations, but most are U.S. cooperative stations. To be included in the HCN, a station must have been active in 1987 and have had at least 80 years of temperature and precipitation data. The HCN database includes station histories, monthly temperatures, and total monthly precipitation data.



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PERIODS: 1880-01 to 1994-12
VARIABLES:
Air TemperatureMaximum/Minimum TemperaturePrecipitation Amount
LEVELS:
Ground or water surface
TYPES: Platform Observations
COVERAGE:
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
PUBLICATIONS: Quinlan, F.T., T.R. Karl and C.N. Williams, Jr., 1987: United States Historical Climatology Network (HCN) Serial Temperature and Precipitation Data. NDP-019, Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 33 pp.

VOLUME: 540.49 MBytes
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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