gov.noaa.ncdc:C00372 National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Unknown tabular digital data http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov U.S. Gridded Precipitation and Snowfall Time Series is digital data set DSI-3721, archived at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). The time period is January 1, 1948 to December 31, 1999. Geographic coverage is the 48 contiguous states of the United States of America. As stated, the data is gridded; each grid is 0.5 degrees of latitude and longitude. The data set consists of precipitation data and separate snowfall data. The precipitation data covers about 96 percent of the land area of the 48 states, and 100 percent of the area east of -105.0 longitude. Snowfall data covers about 95 percent of the land area. To make a wide range of climatic data available to researchers and the public. data set C00372 AWS > AUTOMATED WEATHER SYSTEM RAIN GAUGES SNOW MEASURING ROD WEATHER STATIONS National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce 19480101 19991231 Ground Condition Complete As Needed -125.0 -65.0 50.0 24.0 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 > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > SNOW GCMD Location Valids UNITED STATES OF AMERICA GCMD Location Valids LAND SURFACE TROPOSPHERE WEATHER STATIONS AUTOMATED WEATHER SYSTEM AWS WEATHER STATIONS RAIN GAUGES WEATHER STATIONS SNOW MEASURING ROD 1 None None A Microsoft Word 2002 file, "readme_DSI-3721_methods.doc", describes the methods and algorithms used to create the data. This file is archived with the data and is available with the data. A Microsoft Word 2002 file, "readme_DSI-3721_methods.doc", describes the methods and algorithms used to create the data. This file is archived with the data and is available with the data. A text file, "readme_DSI-3721_formats.txt", describes data formats and says a few things about data completeness. A Microsoft Word 2002 file, "readme_DSI-3721_methods.doc", describes the methods and algorithms used to create the data. These files are archived with the data and are available with the data. A Microsoft Word 2002 file, "readme_DSI-3721_methods.doc", describes the methods and algorithms used to create the data. This file is archived with the data and is available with the data. Unknown A text file, "readme_DSI-3721_formats.txt", describes the data file formats in detail. This file is archived with the data and is available with the data. None National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Customer Service Mailing and physical

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