Climate Data Bases of the People's Republic of China 1841-1988 (TR-055)

Dataset · Tue Oct 31 23:00:00 EST 1995

DOI:https://doi.org/10.3334/CDIAC/CLI.TR055· OSTI ID:1389428

Kaiser, D. P. ^[1]; Tao, S. ^[2]; Fu, C. ^[3]; Zeng, Z. ^[2]; Zhang, Q. ^[2]; Wang, W.-C. ^[4]; Karl, T. R. ^[5]

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1. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center; OSTI
2. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Atmospheric Physics
3. Chinese Academy of Sciences , Institute of Atmospheric Physics
4. University at Albany, State University of New York, Atmospheric Science Research Center
5. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center

A data base containing meteorological observations from the People's Republic of China (PRC) is described. These data were compiled in accordance with a joint research agreement signed by the U.S. Department of Energy and the PRC Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on August 19, 1987. CAS's Institute of Atmospheric Physics (Beijing, PRC) has provided records from 296 stations, organized into five data sets: (1) a 60-station data set containing monthly measurements of barometric pressure, surface air temperature, precipitation amount, relative humidity, sunshine duration, cloud amount, wind direction and speed, and number of days with snow cover; (2) a 205-station data set containing monthly mean temperatures and monthly precipitation totals; (3) a 40-station subset of the 205-station data set containing monthly mean maximum and minimum temperatures and monthly extreme maximum and minimum temperatures; (4) a 180-station data set containing daily precipitation totals; and (5) a 147-station data set containing 10-day precipitation totals. Sixteen stations from these data sets (13 from the 60-station set and 3 from the 205-station set) have temperature and/or precipitation records that begin prior to 1900, whereas the remaining stations began observing in the early to mid-1900s. Records from most stations extend through 1988. (Note: Users interested in the TR055 60-station data set should acquire expanded and updated data from CDIAC's NDP-039, Two Long-Term Instrumental Climatic Data Bases of the People's Republic of China)For access to the data files, click this link to the CDIAC data transition website: http://cdiac.ess-dive.lbl.gov/ndps/tr055.htmlThis dataset was transferred from the CDIAC Archive and published on ESS-DIVE in 2018 under the project title "Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (USA); Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China". In 2023, the project title was updated to "Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)" to enable consistent management of all datasets previously hosted by the CDIAC Archive that are now published on ESS-DIVE.

• Research Organization: Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem
• Sponsoring Organization: U.S. DOE > Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research (BER) (SC-23); People's Republic of China Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• OSTI ID: 1389428
• Report Number(s): osti:1389428; doi:10.3334/CDIAC/CLI.TR055; cdiac:doi 10.3334/CDIAC/cli.tr055
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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TR055
WMO number
WMO station number
barometric pressure
cloud amount
days of snow
dominant wind direction (degrees)
dominant wind frequency (%)
elevation
extreme maximum temperature (C)
extreme minimum temperature (C)
humidity
latitude
longitude
mean cloud amount (percentage of sky cover)
mean maximum temperature (C)
mean minimum temperature (C)
mean relative humidity (%)
mean station pressure (mb)
mean temperature (C)
mean wind speed (m/s)
month
precipitation
snow days (days with snow cover)
station name
sunshine
sunshine duration (h)
temperature
total precipitation (mm)
wind direction
wind speed
year