Daily snow depth measurements from 195 stations in the United States
- 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
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.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab., Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-96OR22464
- OSTI ID:
- 676893
- Report Number(s):
- ORNL/CDIAC--95; NDP--059; ON: DE98003675
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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