gov.noaa.ncdc:C00044 National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Unknown tabular digital data http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov Airways Solar Radiation is historical digital data set DSI-3281, archived at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). This is meteorological and solar radiation data. The meteorological data is a small historical subset of the larger, ongoing NCDC data set, US Global Surface Airways Hourly Observations (DSI-3280) (C00215). DSI-3281 contains meteorological data from only 31 of the many DSI-3280 stations, and only from the years 1988-95. These 31 stations also reported direct and global solar radiation data, which is found in DSI-3281 but not DSI-3280. The 31 stations included in this historical data set are located in the US and Guam. The stations are: Albuquerque, NM; Lander, WY; Bismarck, ND; Las Vegas, NV; Boise, ID; Long Beach, CA; Boulder, CO; Madison, WI; Brownsville, TX; Midland, TX; Burlington, VT; Montgomery, AL; Caribou, ME; Nashville, TN; Columbia, MO; Omaha, NE; Dodge City, KS; Phoenix, AZ; El Paso, TX; Pittsburgh, PA; Ely, NV; Raleigh, NC; Fresno, CA; Salt Lake City, UT; Grand Junction, CO; Seattle, WA; Great Falls MT; Sterling, VA; Guam, PI; Tallahassee, FL; and Lake Charles, LA. This data set contains hourly or 3-hourly surface weather observations that are taken primarily at major airports and military bases. Observations are made by trained personnel, or by automated equipment that has been tested by the controlling agency. Stations are usually fully instrumented and therefore record a complete range of meteorological parameters. Observations are generally recorded for the 24-hour period midnight to midnight. Basically, the major parameters are clouds, visibility, winds, air temperature, sky cover, relative humidity, air pressure, direct and global radiation and present weather. However, there have been several historical changes in the way observations have been recorded, including the advent of the Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) in 1992. The detailed parameters, allowing for such changes, are: sky condition in tenths and height per layer; sky condition in eighths and height per layer; altimeter setting; sky condition in tenths and cloud coverage by layer; sky condition in eighths and cloud coverage by layer; ceiling height; cloud type and height by layer; total amount of sky cover by the first two cloud layers and by the first three cloud layers; dew point temperature in tenths Celsius; dew point temperature in Fahrenheit; horizontal visibility; station pressure; direct and global radiation; present weather code; present weather between 5 and 10 statute miles in vicinity; relative humidity; sea level pressure; air temperature in tenths Celsius; air temperature in Fahrenheit; wet bulb temperature in tenths Fahrenheit; total sky cover in eighths; total sky cover and total opaque sky cover measured in tenths; wind direction and speed to 16 points; wind direction and speed; and wind direction and speed from ASOS. All parameters are not reported by all stations. To make a wide range of climatic data available to researchers and the public. data set C00044 AEROVANES ALTIMETERS ANEMOMETERS AWS > AUTOMATED WEATHER SYSTEM BAROMETERS DRY BULB THERMOMETERS HUMIDITY SENSORS HYGROMETERS PRESSURE SENSORS PYRANOMETERS PYRHELIOMETERS RADIOMETERS RAIN GAUGES SUNSHINE RECORDERS TEMPERATURE SENSORS THERMOMETERS VISUAL OBSERVATIONS WET BULB THERMOMETERS WIND VANES ARWS > Automatic Remote Weather Station National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce 19880101 19951231 Ground Condition Complete As Needed 140.0 -65.0 49.0 10.0 ISO 19115 Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere 004 elevation 006 DIF Discipline Keyword Thesaurus Earth Sciences > Atmosphere > Meteorology Earth Sciences > Atmosphere > Weather Earth Sciences > Atmosphere > Climatology Earth Sciences > Land > Hydrology GCMD Sciences Keyword Valids EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > AIR QUALITY > VISIBILITY EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ALTITUDE > BAROMETRIC ALTITUDE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA > CYCLONES EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA > FOG EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA > HURRICANES EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA > LIGHTNING EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA > STORMS EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA > TORNADOS EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA > TYPHOONS EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > MAXIMUM/MINIMUM TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ALTITUDE > STATION HEIGHT EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > PRESSURE TENDENCY EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SEA LEVEL PRESSURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SURFACE PRESSURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > INCOMING SOLAR RADIATION EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > DEW POINT EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > HUMIDITY EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD BASE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD CEILING EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD HEIGHT EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD AMOUNT/FREQUENCY EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD TYPES EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > SNOW EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > RAIN GCMD Location Valids UNITED STATES OF AMERICA GUAM GCMD Location Valids TROPOSPHERE STRATOSPHERE LAND SURFACE Automatic Remote Weather Station ARWS AUTOMATED WEATHER SYSTEM AWS Automatic Remote Weather Station ARWS ANEMOMETERS Automatic Remote Weather Station ARWS ALTIMETERS Automatic Remote Weather Station ARWS BAROMETERS Automatic Remote Weather Station ARWS DRY BULB THERMOMETERS Automatic Remote Weather Station ARWS HUMIDITY SENSORS Automatic Remote Weather Station ARWS HYGROMETERS Automatic Remote Weather Station ARWS PRESSURE SENSORS Automatic Remote Weather Station ARWS PYRANOMETERS Automatic Remote Weather Station ARWS PYRHELIOMETERS Automatic Remote Weather Station ARWS RAIN GAUGES Automatic Remote Weather Station ARWS RADIOMETERS Automatic Remote Weather Station ARWS SUNSHINE RECORDERS Automatic Remote Weather Station ARWS TEMPERATURE SENSORS Automatic Remote Weather Station ARWS THERMOMETERS Automatic Remote Weather Station ARWS VISUAL OBSERVATIONS Automatic Remote Weather Station ARWS WET BULB THERMOMETERS Automatic Remote Weather Station ARWS WIND VANES Automatic Remote Weather Station ARWS AEROVANES 1 None None Unknown Completeness information not available. 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