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Creation and maintenance of a comprehensive climate database



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  • Personal Author:
    Petrescu, Eugene
  • Corporate Authors:
    United States, National Weather Service., Western Region,
  • NOAA Program & Office:
  • Description:
    Requests for climate information from the public and media are one of the more frequent inquiries that a National Weather Service field office receives. Climate data are also of importance for local research studies, determining long-term climate trends, and shortterm forecasting problems; such as temperature and quantitative precipitation forecasts. This Technical Memorandum describes methods to create a comprehensive climate database, in the 'netcdf' format, that can be accessed by the UNIX X-Windows program Xmclimate. Xmclimate provides quick access to summary of day climate data from first order and cooperative stations; including a powerful search engine to quickly answer almost any climate question. In addition, methods to maintain and update the climate database with near real-time data are discussed.
  • Content Notes:
    Eugene Petrescu.
  • Keywords:
  • Series:
    NOAA technical memorandum NWS WR   255
  • Document Type:
    Technical Memorandum
  • Place as Subject:
    United States
  • Rights Information:
    Public Domain
  • Compliance:
    Library
  • Main Document Checksum:
    urn:sha256:1b74eeaa8a31f0dcb6c86be56c2ecba215d9a5ca4bc55dbff3a28c6735287797
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