The global historical climatology network: Long-term monthly temperature, precipitation, sea level pressure, and station pressure data
- Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
- National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC (United States); and others
This NDP contains monthly temperature, precipitation, sea level pressure, and station pressure data for thousands of meteorological stations worldwide. The database was compiled from pre-existing national, regional, and global collections of data as a part of the Global Historical Climatology Network (CHCN) project. It contains data from roughly 6000 temperature stations, 7500 precipitation stations, 1800 sea level pressure stations, and 1800 station pressure stations. Each station has at least 10 years of data, and about 40% have more than 50 years of data. Spatial coverage is good over most of the globe, particularly for the United States and Europe. Data gaps are evident over the Amazon rainforest, the Sahara desert, Greenland, and Antarctica.
- OSTI ID:
- 450750
- Journal Information:
- CDIAC Communications, Journal Issue: 17; Other Information: PBD: Sum 1992
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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The Global Historical Climatology Network: Long-term monthly temperature, precipitation, sea level pressure, and station pressure data
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