gov.noaa.ncdc:C00358 National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Unknown tabular digital data http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov Cooperative Summary of the Day - Midwest Climate Center/MCCDP is digital data set DSI-3205, archived at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). DSI-3205 contains daily minimum and maximum temperature and precipitation data, plus auxiliary information, for 9 US midwestern states plus New Mexico. The data were provided to the NCDC following an extensive data digitization project carried out by the Midwestern Climate Center (MCC). The MCC project was a collaborative effort by state climatologists to convert early data, which was available only in printed form, to digital files. Most data are from the period 1896-1947, but it varies. The earliest and latest data available for each of the 10 states are: Illinois : 1879-1948 Indiana : 1896-1948 Iowa : 1896-1948 Kentucky : 1893-1948 Michigan : 1863-1980 Minnesota : 1881-1948 Missouri : 1889-1948 New Mexico: 1897-1947 Ohio : 1896-1948 Wisconsin : 1896-1948 Auxiliary information includes station metadata and corrections to DSI-3200 data that are necessary for DSI-3205 to fit properly with DSI-3200. (DSI-3200 is Cooperative Summary of the Day and is the primary data set in the 32xx series of data sets.) To make a wide range of climatic data available to researchers and the public. data set C00358 AWS > AUTOMATED WEATHER SYSTEM RAIN GAUGES TEMPERATURE LOGGERS TEMPERATURE SENSORS THERMOMETERS METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce 18630101 19801231 Ground Condition Complete As Needed -110.0 -80.0 50.0 31.0 ISO 19115 Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere 004 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 TEMPERATURE > MAXIMUM/MINIMUM TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT GCMD Location Valids NORTH AMERICA GCMD Location Valids LAND SURFACE METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS AUTOMATED WEATHER SYSTEM AWS METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS THERMOMETERS METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS TEMPERATURE SENSORS METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS TEMPERATURE LOGGERS METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS RAIN GAUGES 1 None None Not provided Unknown Completeness information not available. Not derived from another source. Unknown Positions 1-3 RECORD TYPE: The type of data stored in this record. (Value is "DLY"). Each record contains one month of daily values. Positions 4-11 STATION-ID: This 8-character alphanumeric station identifier is assigned by the National Climatic Data Center. The first two digits refer to a state code (value range is 01-91; reference Table "A"). The next four digits refer to the Cooperative Network Index number (value range is 0001-9999). The last two digits are the Cooperative Network Division Number (value range is 01-10; 99 = Missing Division Number; reference Table "B"). Positions 12-15 METEOROLOGICAL ELEMENT-TYPE: The type of meteorological elements stored in this record. The range of values are listed below. PRCP: Daily precipitation. (Precipitation reading for 24 hours ending at time of observation. Trace is less than 0.005 inch.) Unit Measurement, Inches to Hundredths. TMAX: Daily maximum temperature. (Maximum temperature reading for 24 hours ending at time of observation.) Unit Measurement, Whole Degrees Fahrenheit. TMIN: Daily minimum temperature. (Minimum temperature reading for 24 hours ending at time of observation.) Unit Measurement, Whole Degrees Fahrenheit. Positions 16-17 METEOROLOGICAL ELEMENT MEASUREMENT UNITS CODE: The units and decimal position (precision) of the data value for this record (reference Table "E"). See "Known Uncorrected Problems" for additional details. Positions 18-21 YEAR: This is the year of the record. Range of values is 1850-current year processed. Positions 22-23 MONTH: This is the month of the record. Range of values is 01-12 LST. Positions 24-27 FILLER: Filler value is 9999. Positions 28-30 NUMBER OF DATA PORTIONS THAT FOLLOW: This indicates the actual number of values reported. Note: All positions after 30 are the data section. Each data value is a block consisting of 12 characters. Positions 31-42, which comprise the first 12-character data value block, are described below. The same description applies to all blocks. DSI-3200 does not explicitly contain missing values ( 99) for individual days. The record length for each month depends on the number of days for which data were collected: that is, if within a month data were collected for only a few days, then the line in DSI 3200 for that month contains only those few data values. On the other hand, DSI-3205 explicitly contains missing values for individual days. If within a month, data were collected for only a few days, then the line in DSI-3205 still contains values for all calendar days in the month, including explicitly missing ( 99) values for those days without data. In those cases where DSI-3205 contains a missing (or any) value for a value already present in DSI-3200, the value in DSI-3205 should be assumed to take precedence. Positions 31-32 DAY OF MONTH: Contains the day of the month on which the data element was observed. Range of values is 01-31 LST. Positions 33-34 HOUR OF OBSERVATION: Contains the hour of the daily observation. Hour of observation is reported using the 24-hour clock with values ranging from 00-23 LST, except in the cases of soil temperatures element-type (where the hour is 99 to indicate missing) and "days with weather" (where the hour is 24). Through June 1967 observations were designated as "AM" or "PM"; these values were set to 06 or 18 respectively during the conversion to DSI-3200. From July 1967 through 1981, all observations were set to hour 18 (because the majority are p.m. observations). Beginning January 1982, the actual hour of the observation is indicated Position 35 SIGN OF METEOROLOGICAL VALUE: The algebraic sign of the meteorological data value is given as either a blank or a minus sign (-). Blank indicates a positive value and a minus sign represents a negative value (see Known Uncorrected Problems"). Positions 36-40 VALUE OF METEOROLOGICAL ELEMENT: The actual data value is given as a five-digit integer. One major exception does exist however, for the DYSW (days with weather code) element-type values. A very small number of data values are known to have non-numeric entries. Note: For fixed length records only when a data value is missing, the sign of the data value is set to "-", the data value is set to "99", flag position 1 is set to "M" and flag position 2 is blank. Prior to September 1991, when no daily precipitation reading was taken but the amount from that day (if any) is included in a subsequent value, the data value of precipitation is set equal to "00000" and flagged with an "S" in flag position 1. In turn, the successive accumulated amount will be flagged with an "A" in flag position 1. Since September 1991, it has been a practice at NCDC to set the precipitation value to "-99" in this situation; the flagging procedure has not changed. Position 41 FLAG1: The Data Measurement FLAG (reference Table "F"). Position 42 FLAG2: The Data Quality FLAG (reference Table "G"). TABLES TABLE "A" State-Code Table 11 Illinois 12 Indiana 13 Iowa 15 Kentucky 20 Michigan 21 Minnesota 23 Missouri 29 New Mexico 33 Ohio 47 Wisconsin TABLE "E" Units of Measurement Table Range of values where b = Blank: bF Whole degrees Fahrenheit (right justified HI Hundredths of inches bI Whole inches (right justified) bM Whole miles (right justified) NA No units applicable (nondimensional) TI Tenths of inches TABLE "F" Data Measurement Flag 1 A - Accumulated amount since last measurement. B - Accumulated amount includes estimated values (since last measurement). E - Estimated (see Table "G" for estimating method). J - Value has been manually validated. M - For fixed length records only. Flag 1 is "M" if the data value is missing. In this case, the sign of the meteorological value is assigned "-" and the value of the meteorological element assigned "99999". S - Included in a subsequent value.(data value = "00000" OR "99999"). T - Trace (data value = 00000 for a trace). ( - Expert system edited value, not validated. ) - Expert system approved edited value. Blank - Flag not needed. Note: The presence or absence of an "E" in Data Measurement Flag 1 is not a reliable source of indicating that a subsequent value replaces an original value. Users should examine Data Quality Flag 2 for a code "0-5" to indicate whether a replacement value follows an original value. Flag 1 values of "S" and "A" usually occur in pairs (ie. a daily value will have Flag 1 assigned as "S" and the next daily value will have Flag 1 assigned as "A"). For some daily values these flags do not occur in pairs. Other values occasionally appear in Data Measurement Flag 1 for which documentation is not currently available, e.g., "C" and "s" TABLE "G" Data Quality Flag 2 In those cases where a value was judged invalid and a replacement value provided, the codes used to indicate how the replacement value was determined are the same as DSI-3200, with the some additions and clarifications to definitions for FLAG2 (Table G in DSI-3200 document). All replacement values were produced manually. 0 - Valid data element. 1 - Valid data element (from "unknown" source, pre-1982). 2 - Invalid data element (subsequent value replaces original value). 3 - Invalid data element (no replacement value follows). 4 Data element passed through Midwestern Climate Center QC 5 - Original non-numeric data value has been replaced by its deciphered numeric value. A - Substituted TOBS for TMAX or TMIN B - Time shifted value C - Precipitation estimated from snowfall D - Transposed digits E - Changed units F - Adjusted TMAX or TMIN by a multiple of + or -10 degrees G - Changed algebraic sign H - Moved decimal point I - Rescaling other than F, G, or H J - Subjectively derived value K - Extracted from an accumulated value L - Switched TMAX and/or TMIN M - Switched TOBS with TMAX or TMIN N - Substitution of "3 nearest station mean" O - Switched snow and precipitation data value P - Added snowfall to snow depth Q - Switched snowfall and snow depth R - Precipitation not reported; estimated as "O" S**- Manually edited value (** - Manually edited value could be derived by any of the procedures noted by Flags A-R. T - Failed internal consistency check U - Failed areal consistency check (beginning Oct. 1992) X value in MCCDP verifies, estimated value in DSI 3200 accepted as replacement (Wisconsin only) Y estimated value from Michigan quality control (Michigan only) Z value shifted by a day None National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Customer Service Mailing and physical

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