gov.noaa.ncdc:C00504 National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Unknown tabular digital data http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov http://ols.nndc.noaa.gov/plolstore/plsql/olstore.prodspecific?prodnum=C00504-TAP-A0001 http NCDC Online Store Image or description of the Product or Data Set provided information U.S. COOP Summary of the Month is digital data set DSI-3220, archived at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). It is also available online. This is meteorological data from the U.S. Cooperative Observer Network (COOP), which consists of stations operated by state universities, state or federal agencies, and also private individuals whose stations are managed and maintained by the National Weather Service (NWS). The Network includes regular NWS offices, and airports with weather stations operated by the NWS or the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The Network also includes U.S. military bases. There are typically about 8,000 stations operating in any one year. Areal coverage includes the U.S., Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Pacific Ocean nations of Palau, Marshall Islands and Micronesia. The earliest data is from 1867. Because the Cooperative Network's primary goal is to collect precipitation data, a small privately operated station may observe precipitation data only. Large stations may observe several parameters. Data is organized by month. Possible major parameters found in DSI-3220 records are: Monthly Cooling degree days Number of days with more than 0.1 in of precipitation Number of days with more than 0.5 in of precipitation Number of days with more than 0.01 in of precipitation Number of days with more than 0.25 in of precipitation Number of days with more than 1.0 in of precipitation Precipitation departure from monthly normal Temperature departure from monthly normal Number of days with snow depth more than 1 in Number of days with minimum air temperature 32 degrees F or less Number of days with minimum air temperature 59 degrees F or less Number of days with maximum air temperature 70 degrees F or more Number of days with maximum air temperature 90 degrees F or more Number of days with maximum air temperature 32 degrees F or less Number of days with maximum air temperature 59 degrees F or less Extreme maximum daily precipitation amount in the month Extreme minimum temperature in the month Extreme maximum temperature in the month Date of last spring occurrence of air temperature 16 degrees F or less Date of last spring occurrence of air temperature 20 degrees F or less Date of last spring occurrence of air temperature 24 degrees F or less Date of last spring occurrence of air temperature 28 degrees F or less Date of last spring occurrence of air temperature 32 degrees F or less Date of first autumn occurrence of air temperature 16 degrees F or less Date of first autumn occurrence of air temperature 20 degrees F or less Date of first autumn occurrence of air temperature 24 degrees F or less Date of first autumn occurrence of air temperature 28 degrees F or less Date of first autumn occurrence of air temperature 32 degrees F or less Monthly heating degree days Monthly mean minimum temperature of evaporation pan water Monthly mean minimum air temperature Monthly mean maximum temperature of evaporation pan water Monthly mean maximum air temperature Monthly mean air temperature Maximum snow depth during month Total monthly evaporation Total monthly precipitation Total monthly snow Total monthly wind movement in miles over evaporation pan Since 1980, parameters for U.S. state/region climatological division parameters have been available: Divisional average total monthly precipitation (through 1981) Departure from normal monthly precipitation (through 1981) Departure from normal monthly temperature Number of days in month with rain (from 1982) Monthly mean temperature Divisional average total monthly precipitation Total monthly snowfall Soil data is available since 1982 for some stations. Soil temperatures are often measured at several depths. Monthly mean minimum soil temperature temperature Highest minimum soil temperature for the month Lowest minimum soil temperature for the month Monthly mean soil temperature at observation time Highest soil temperature at observation time Lowest soil temperature at observation time Monthly mean maximum soil temperature Highest maximum soil temperature for the month Lowest maximum soil temperature for the month To make a wide range of climatic data available to researchers and the public. data set C00504 ANEMOMETERS AWS > AUTOMATED WEATHER SYSTEM BAROMETERS RAIN GAUGES SNOW MEASURING ROD SOIL TEMPERATURE PROBE TEMPERATURE LOGGERS TEMPERATURE SENSORS THERMOMETERS WIND VANES METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce http://ols.nndc.noaa.gov/plolstore/plsql/olstore.prodspecific?prodnum=C00504-TAP-A0001 http://ols.nndc.noaa.gov/plolstore/plsql/olstore.prodspecific?prodnum=C00504-TAP-A0001 http://ols.nndc.noaa.gov/plolstore/plsql/olstore.prodspecific?prodnum=C00504-TAP-A0001 18670101 Present Ground Condition Complete As Needed 130.0 -60.0 72.0 -15.0 ISO 19115 Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere 004 farming 001 GCMD Sciences Keyword Valids EARTH SCIENCE > AGRICULTURE > SOILS > SOIL TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > MAXIMUM/MINIMUM TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > EVAPORATION EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION RATE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > SNOW EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS > SOIL TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > SNOW DEPTH EARTH SCIENCE > HYDROSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > SNOW DEPTH GCMD Location Valids UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PUERTO RICO VIRGIN ISLANDS HAWAIIAN ISLANDS GUAM AMERICAN SAMOA MARSHALL ISLANDS MICRONESIA PALAU GCMD Location Valids LAND SURFACE METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS AUTOMATED WEATHER SYSTEM AWS METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS ANEMOMETERS METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS BAROMETERS METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS RAIN GAUGES METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS SOIL TEMPERATURE PROBE METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS THERMOMETERS METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS TEMPERATURE LOGGERS METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS SNOW MEASURING ROD METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS TEMPERATURE SENSORS METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS WIND VANES 1 None None National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Customer Services Branch Mailing and physical

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Asheville North Carolina 28801-5001 USA 828-271-4800 828-271-4010 828-271-4876 ncdc.orders@noaa.gov 8:00 - 6:00 Eastern http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/about/ncdcordering.html Beginning with the data for January 1982, Cooperative data were processed through a completely revised system. Relying heavily on new computer editing procedures, data have been subjected to internal consistency checks, compared against climatological limits, checked serially, and evaluated against surrounding station observations. The historical data were converted from existing digital files and structured into the element structure format. These data were processed through a gross value check and not the current edit system. It is NCDC's goal to bring these historical files up to the same level of quality as those from 1982 onward as resources become available. Thus, benign neglect, state of the art processing (circa 1952), and limited money/people resources have contributed toward less than optimum conditions in maintaining integrity of the digital files before 1982. Soil data were added in January 1982 with approximately 250 stations reporting soil data. Soil data before 1982 are available in DSI-9639. In January 1987, the 1982 and 1983 soil data were removed from the primary period of record data tapes. 1982-83 soil data processing problems resulted in poor data quality of the monthly soils. These data are available on a separate magnetic tape containing just 1982-83 soil data. There may be a few cases in which precipitation and temperature are in metric units but are not labeled as such in the "Element Units" field. This seems to be limited to data from the early 1960's from the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Some data files contain what appears to be near duplicate records. For example, one record may contain data for January through April and show the remaining months as missing. The second record may show data for January through April as missing and the remaining months as present. The reason there are two records is that the station changed climate divisions during the year. The first record will show some division number, and the second record will show a different division number. Unknown Completeness information not available. Not derived from another source. Unknown http://cdo.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo/3220doc.txt None National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Customer Services Branch Mailing and physical

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