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Climatography of the United States No. 20 and No. 60
publication
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/normals/usnormalsprods.html#CLIM20
Climatography of the United States No. 20 is a historical publication
series that is available at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). The
Climatography of the United States No. 20 (CLIM20), Monthly Station Climate
Summaries for 1971-2000 are station summaries of particular interest to
agriculture, industry, and engineering applications. These summaries contain a
variety of statistics for temperature, precipitation, snow, freeze dates, and
degree day elements for more than 4,000 stations. The NCDC No. 20 series of
climatic summaries gives weather data from selected observation sites in the
National Weather Service (NWS) cooperative observation network. Those sites are
usually in or near cities which do not have airport weather stations or city
weather offices. There have been several issues of the No. 20 series; each
issue is based on a specific period-of-record of observations. The latest issue
is from the 1971-2000 period. Each issue is updated decennially. This product
updates and expands on the previous version by adding statistics and thresholds
to the temperature, precipitation, and snow climatologies and including 32
degrees Fahrenheit as a base to the degree days table.Station lists by state,
for each of the issue periods contain the period-of-record, location
(latitude/longitude), and elevation from sea-level. The major parameters in the
No. 20 file for the 1971-2000 issue are monthly and annual temperature
climatologies; monthly and annual precipitation climatologies; monthly and
annual snow climatologies; freeze data; and degree days. The 1951-1970, 71, 72,
73, 74, 75 issues contained the above parameters except for heating and cooling
degree days to selected bases, growing degree units, and growing degree units
for corn. The 1893-1970 historical summaries were prepared in various formats,
but most of them did possess the basic parameters temperature, precipitation,
and snowfall.The latest issue of the NCDC No. 60 series contains a narrative
climatic summary, a means and extremes table for each cooperative station in
the state that utilized data for the periods 1951-1970, 1971, 1972, 1973,
1974, or 1975 that was published in the Climatography of the United States No.
20 file, and the normals (1941-1970), means and extremes (1941-1975, 1976, or
1977) table from the annual issue of Local Climatological Data for all stations
in the state at the time of publication. This series is not available on-line.
To make a wide range of climatic data available to researchers and the
public.
publication
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http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/normals/usnormalsprods.html#CLIM20
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/documentlibrary/pdf/eis/clim20eis.pdf
http://ols.nndc.noaa.gov/plolstore/plsql/olstore.prodspecific?prodnum=C00643-CDR-A0001
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ISO 19115 Topic Category
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
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farming
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elevation
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environment
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utilitiesCommunication
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DIF Discipline Keyword Thesaurus
Earth Sciences > Atmosphere > Meteorology
Earth Sciences > Atmosphere > Climatology
Earth Sciences > Atmosphere > Weather
Earth Sciences > Land > Hydrology
GCMD Sciences Keyword Valids
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA > FREEZE
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > DEGREE DAYS
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > MAXIMUM/MINIMUM TEMPERATURE
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > RAIN
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > SNOW
EARTH SCIENCE > HYDROSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > SNOW DEPTH
GCMD Location Valids
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
PUERTO RICO
GCMD Location Valids
LAND SURFACE
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http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/documentlibrary/pdf/eis/clim20eis.pdf
Documentation for the Climatography of the United States No. 20 (CLIM20), Monthly Station
Climate Summaries for 1971-2000 with a detailed description of the summaries.
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Climatography of the United States No. 20 is a series of publications available at the NCDC.
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Every effort has been made to ensure that these data are accurate and
reliable within the limits of current NOAA quality control procedures. NOAA can
only certify that the data provided to its customers is an authentic copy of the
records which were accepted for inclusion in NOAA archives. NOAA cannot assume
liability for any damages caused by any errors or omissions in the data, nor as
a result of the failure of the data to function on a particular system. NOAA
makes no warranty, expressed or implied, nor does the fact of distribution
constitute such a warranty.
The summaries are available in PDF and ASCII formats.
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The Monthly Station Climate Summaries for the 1971-2000 period of record (Climatography
of the United States No. 20) are available for purchase. The summaries are available in PDF and ASCII formats.
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Pricing is dependent on customer order specifications. Please contact NCDC for
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Customer Services Branch
Mailing and physical
151 Patton Avenue
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Asheville
North Carolina
28801-5001
USA
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