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NCDC's TD3720 USSR Monthly Precipitation For 622 Stations 1891-1999

"The archive contains mean monthly precipitation data for the period 1891-1999 for 622 stations of the former Soviet Union and a set of metadata files that is essential for the use of these data in climate change studies.", quoted from the NCDC abstract.

"This dataset includes all the monthly precipitation data in the [ds564.0] NCDC Global Historical Climate Network and more, and has corrections for wind, wetting, and gauge type.", quoted from for NSIDC documentation for ds488.0


PERIODS: 1891 to 1999
VARIABLES:
Precipitation Amount
LEVELS:
Ground or water surface
TYPES: Platform Observation
SOURCES: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC
National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, 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 ds577.5."
VOLUME: 10.42 MBytes
DATA FORMATS: ASCII (see dataset documentation)
RELATED DATASETS: ds488.0 - NSIDC Daily Precipitation Sums at Coastal and Island Russian Arctic Stations, 1940-1990
ds489.0 - NSIDC Meteorological Data from the Russian Arctic, 1961-2000
ds524.0 - Russian Summary of Day, 1881-1989

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