The Global Historical Climatology Network: Long-Term Monthly Temperature, Precipitation, Sea Level Pressure, and Station Pressure Data (NDP-041)

Vose, R. S.; Schmoyer, R. L.; Steurer, P. M.; Peterson, T. C.; Heim, R.; Karl, T. R.; Eischeid, J. K.

doi:10.3334/CDIAC/CLI.NDP041

Title: The Global Historical Climatology Network: Long-Term Monthly Temperature, Precipitation, Sea Level Pressure, and Station Pressure Data (NDP-041)

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The GHCN data base contains mean monthly temperature data (in tenths of degrees celsius) for 6039 stations throughout the world. The majority (61%) have records for fewer than 50 years, but a significant proportion (10%) have records in excess of 100 years. It also contains total monthly precipitation data (in tenths of millimeters) for 7533 stations throughout the world. A slight majority (55%) have records in excess of 50 years, and a significant proportion (13%) have records in excess of 100 years. Also in this content is mean monthly sea level pressure data (in tenths of millibars) for 1883 stations throughout the world. The monthly station pressure data from those stations is also available here. For access to the data files, click this link to the CDIAC data transition website: http://cdiac.ess-dive.lbl.gov/ftp/ndp041/

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Vose, R. S.; Schmoyer, R. L.; Steurer, P. M.; Peterson, T. C.; Heim, R.; Karl, T. R.; Eischeid, J. K.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center; OSTI
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Statistical Computing Office
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

Publication Date:: Tue Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1991

Other Number(s):: osti:1389423; doi:10.3334/CDIAC/CLI.NDP041; cdiac:doi 10.3334/CDIAC/cli.ndp041

Research Org.:: Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem

Sponsoring Org.:: U.S. DOE > Office of Science (SC) > Biological and Environmental Research (BER) (SC-23)

Subject:: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Eischeid; GHCN Database; Global Historical Climatology Network; Heim; Karl; Monthly Temperature; NDP-041; Peterson; Precipitation; Precipitation Amount; Schmoyer; Sea Level Pressure; See Level Pressure; Station Pressure; Steurer; Temperature; Vose

OSTI Identifier:: 1389423

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3334/CDIAC/CLI.NDP041

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                    Vose, R. S., Schmoyer, R. L., Steurer, P. M., Peterson, T. C., Heim, R., Karl, T. R., and Eischeid, J. K. The Global Historical Climatology Network: Long-Term Monthly Temperature, Precipitation, Sea Level Pressure, and Station Pressure Data (NDP-041).  United States: N. p., 1991. 
        Web.  doi:10.3334/CDIAC/CLI.NDP041.

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                    Vose, R. S., Schmoyer, R. L., Steurer, P. M., Peterson, T. C., Heim, R., Karl, T. R., & Eischeid, J. K. The Global Historical Climatology Network: Long-Term Monthly Temperature, Precipitation, Sea Level Pressure, and Station Pressure Data (NDP-041).  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.3334/CDIAC/CLI.NDP041

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                    Vose, R. S., Schmoyer, R. L., Steurer, P. M., Peterson, T. C., Heim, R., Karl, T. R., and Eischeid, J. K. 1991.  
"The Global Historical Climatology Network: Long-Term Monthly Temperature, Precipitation, Sea Level Pressure, and Station Pressure Data (NDP-041)".  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.3334/CDIAC/CLI.NDP041.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1389423. Pub date:Tue Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1991

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  title        = {The Global Historical Climatology Network: Long-Term Monthly Temperature, Precipitation, Sea Level Pressure, and Station Pressure Data (NDP-041)},

  author       = {Vose, R. S. and Schmoyer, R. L. and Steurer, P. M. and Peterson, T. C. and Heim, R. and Karl, T. R. and Eischeid, J. K.},

  abstractNote = {The GHCN data base contains mean monthly temperature data (in tenths of degrees celsius) for 6039 stations throughout the world. The majority (61%) have records for fewer than 50 years, but a significant proportion (10%) have records in excess of 100 years. It also contains total monthly precipitation data (in tenths of millimeters) for 7533 stations throughout the world. A slight majority (55%) have records in excess of 50 years, and a significant proportion (13%) have records in excess of 100 years. Also in this content is mean monthly sea level pressure data (in tenths of millibars) for 1883 stations throughout the world. The monthly station pressure data from those stations is also available here. For access to the data files, click this link to the CDIAC data transition website: http://cdiac.ess-dive.lbl.gov/ftp/ndp041/},

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