Daily Snow Depth Measurements from 195 Stations in the United States (1997) (NDP-059)

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DOI:https://doi.org/10.3334/CDIAC/CLI.NDP059· OSTI ID:1389425

Easterling, D. R. ^[1]; Jamason, P. ^[2]; Bowman, D. P. ^[2]; Hughes, P. Y. ^[2]; Mason, E. H. ^[2]

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1. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center; OSTI
2. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center

This data package provides 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. The snow depth data have undergone extensive manual and automated quality assurance checks by NCDC and the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC). These reviews involved examining the data for completeness, reasonableness, and accuracy, and included comparison of some data records with records in NCDC's Summary of the Day First Order online database. Since the snow depth measurements have been taken at NWS first-order stations that have long periods of record, they should prove useful in monitoring climate change.For access to the data files, click this link to the CDIAC data transition website: http://cdiac.ess-dive.lbl.gov/ndps/ndp059.html

• Research Organization: Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem
• Sponsoring Organization: U.S. DOE > Office of Science (SC) > Biological and Environmental Research (BER) (SC-23)
• OSTI ID: 1389425
• Report Number(s): osti:1389425; doi:10.3334/CDIAC/CLI.NDP059; cdiac:doi 10.3334/CDIAC/cli.ndp059; ORNL ESD Publication No. 4610
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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