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CDIAC U.S. Historical Sunshine Observations, 1891-1984
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This dataset contains sunshine data for 240 U.S. stations
(including Puerto Rico and nine Pacific islands) for the years
from 1891 to 1984. The periods of record for individual
stations varies widely with only 49 (20%) stations having
periods of at least 90 years. Howerver, 192 stations (80%) have
periods of at least 30 years.
In addition to the total monthly and annual measurements of
sunshine duration, total monthly and annual maximum possible
sunshine duration and monthly and annual percentages of possiblesummary: sunshine duration are also provided.
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1891-01 to 1987-12
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| TYPES: |
Platform Observations
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| 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/NCDCNational Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
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| PUBLICATIONS: |
Steurer, P.M. and T.R. Karl, 1991: Historical Sunshine and Cloud Data in the United States. ORNL/CDIAC-43, Carbon Dioxide Research Program, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 99 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 ds565.1."
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| VOLUME: |
6.46 MBytes
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| DATA FORMATS: |
ASCII (see dataset documentation)
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| CONTACT: |
For assistance with this dataset, please contact
Will Spangler (303-497-1217)
. If the specialist is unavailable, please contact
Data Help.
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| DATA ACCESS: |
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