Six and Three-Hourly Meteorological Observations From 223 Former U.S.S.R. Stations (NPD-048)
- All-Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information, World Data Centre
This database contains 6- and 3-hourly meteorological observations from a 223-station network of the former Soviet Union. These data have been made available through cooperation between the two principal climate data centers of the United States and Russia: the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), in Asheville, North Carolina, and the All-Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information-World Data Centre (RIHMI-WDC) in Obninsk, Russia. The first version of this database extended through the mid-1980s (ending year dependent upon station) and was made available in 1995 by the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) as NDP-048. A second version of the database extended the data records through 1990. This third, and current version of the database includes data through 2000 for over half of the stations (mainly for Russia), whereas the remainder of the stations have records extending through various years of the 1990s. Because of the break up of the Soviet Union in 1991, and since RIHMI-WDC is a Russian institution, only Russain stations are generally available through 2000. The non-Russian station records in this database typically extend through 1991. Station records consist of 6- and 3-hourly observations of some 24 meteorological variables including temperature, past and present weather type, precipitation amount, cloud amount and type, sea level pressure, relative humidity, and wind direction and speed. The 6-hourly observations extend from 1936 through 1965; the 3-hourly observations extend from 1966 through 2000 (or through the latest year available). These data have undergone extensive quality assurance checks by RIHMI-WDC, NCDC, and CDIAC. The database represents a wealth of meteorological information for a large and climatologically important portion of the earth's land area, and should prove extremely useful for a wide variety of regional climate change studies. For access to the data files, click this link to the CDIAC data transition website: http://cdiac.ess-dive.lbl.gov/epubs/ndp/ndp048/ndp048.html#princ
- Research Organization:
- Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem (ESS-DIVE) (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- U.S. DOE > Office of Science (SC) > Biological and Environmental Research (BER) (SC-23)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1389424
- Report Number(s):
- osti:1389424; doi:10.3334/CDIAC/CLI.NDP048; cdiac:doi 10.3334/CDIAC/cli.ndp048
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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Russia
U.S.S.R.
Air Temperature
Atmospheric Phenomena
Cloud Amount
Cloud Height
Dew Point Temperature
Former Soviet Union
Hourly Data
Precipitation Amount
Relative Humidity
Sea Level Pressure
Soil Temperature
Visibility
Water Vapor Pressure
Weather Type
Wind Direction
Wind Speed
NDP-048
AIRT
AIRTQF
APH1
APH1CF
APH1QF
APH2
APH2CF
APH2QF
APH3
APH3CF
APH3QF
APH4
APH4CF
APH4QF
APH5CF
APH5QF
APH6
APH6CF
APH6QF
APH7
APH7CF
APH7QF
BMONTH
BYEAR
CLDH
CLDHCF
CLDHQF
CLDL1
CLDL1F
CLDL2
CLDL2F
CLDL3
CLDL3F
CLDM
CLDMQF
DAY
DIRECT
DIST
ELEV
EMONTH
EYEAR
GAP
GRND
GRNDQF
HCLD
HCLDCF
HCLDQF
HDEF
HDEFQF
HOUR
LAT
LCLD
LCLDCF
LCLDQF
LON
MONTH
NAME
PCHR
PCHRQF
PRCP
PRCPCF
PRCPQF
PTND
PTNDQF
RH
RHQF
SEQNUM
SLP
SLPQF
SOILQF
SOILT
STAP
STAPQF
TCLD
TCLDCF
TCLDQF
TDEW
TDEWQF
TYPE
VAPORP
VAPQF
VIS
VISCF
VISQF
W
WCF
WDIR
WDIRQF
WIR
WIRF
WMO
WQF
WSPD
WSPDQF
WW
WWQF
YEAR
ZONE