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Two Long-Term Instrumental Climatic Data Bases of the People's Republic of China

Two PRC climate data bases, derived mainly from instrument measurements, are presented in this dataset; one consists of monthly means, extremes, or totals of 14 meteorological variables observed at 60 stations, the other contains monthly mean temperatures and monthly precipitation totals from 205 stations. The two data bases have no stations in common.


PERIODS: 1841-01-01 to 1988-12-31
VARIABLES:
Cloud Amount/FrequencyHumidityPrecipitation AmountSnow Cover
SunshineSurface Air TemperatureSurface PressureSurface Winds
TYPES: Platform Observation
COVERAGE: See the detailed metadata for coverage information
SOURCES: DOE/ORNL/ESD/CDIAC
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U. S. Department of Energy
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 ds578.5."
VOLUME: 8.54 MBytes
DATA FORMATS: ASCII (see dataset documentation)
MORE DETAILS: View more details for this dataset, including dataset citation, data contributors, and other detailed metadata
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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