Daily snow depth measurements from 195 stations in the United States
Abstract
This document describes a database containing daily measurements of snow depth at 195 National Weather Service (NWS) first-order climatological stations in the United States. The data have been assembled and made available by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in Asheville, North Carolina. The 195 stations encompass 388 unique sampling locations in 48 of the 50 states; no observations from Delaware or Hawaii are included in the database. Station selection criteria emphasized the quality and length of station records while seeking to provide a network with good geographic coverage. Snow depth at the 388 locations was measured once per day on ground open to the sky. The daily snow depth is the total depth of the snow on the ground at measurement time. The time period covered by the database is 1893--1992; however, not all station records encompass the complete period. While a station record ideally should contain daily data for at least the seven winter months (January through April and October through December), not all stations have complete records. Each logical record in the snow depth database contains one station`s daily data values for a period of one month, including data source, measurement, and quality flags.
- Authors:
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- ed.; Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States). Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Asheville, NC (United States). National Climatic Data Center
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab., Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 676893
- Report Number(s):
- ORNL/CDIAC-95; NDP-059
ON: DE98003675; TRN: AHC29821%%26
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-96OR22464
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: DN: Environmental Sciences Division publication number 4610; PBD: Feb 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; SNOW; MONITORING; DAILY VARIATIONS; NUMERICAL DATA; DEPTH; DATA BASE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATIC CHANGE
Citation Formats
Allison, L J, Easterling, D R, Jamason, P, Bowman, D P, Hughes, P Y, and Mason, E H. Daily snow depth measurements from 195 stations in the United States. United States: N. p., 1997.
Web. doi:10.2172/676893.
Allison, L J, Easterling, D R, Jamason, P, Bowman, D P, Hughes, P Y, & Mason, E H. Daily snow depth measurements from 195 stations in the United States. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/676893
Allison, L J, Easterling, D R, Jamason, P, Bowman, D P, Hughes, P Y, and Mason, E H. 1997.
"Daily snow depth measurements from 195 stations in the United States". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/676893. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/676893.
@article{osti_676893,
title = {Daily snow depth measurements from 195 stations in the United States},
author = {Allison, L J and Easterling, D R and Jamason, P and Bowman, D P and Hughes, P Y and Mason, E H},
abstractNote = {This document describes a database containing daily measurements of snow depth at 195 National Weather Service (NWS) first-order climatological stations in the United States. The data have been assembled and made available by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in Asheville, North Carolina. The 195 stations encompass 388 unique sampling locations in 48 of the 50 states; no observations from Delaware or Hawaii are included in the database. Station selection criteria emphasized the quality and length of station records while seeking to provide a network with good geographic coverage. Snow depth at the 388 locations was measured once per day on ground open to the sky. The daily snow depth is the total depth of the snow on the ground at measurement time. The time period covered by the database is 1893--1992; however, not all station records encompass the complete period. While a station record ideally should contain daily data for at least the seven winter months (January through April and October through December), not all stations have complete records. Each logical record in the snow depth database contains one station`s daily data values for a period of one month, including data source, measurement, and quality flags.},
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year = {Sat Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1997},
month = {Sat Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1997}
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