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THIS RECORD IS A TEST EXAMPLE RECORD. US Climate Normals
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2012
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Alternative Title:U.S. Climate Normals 2020: U.S. Monthly Climate Normals (1991-2020)
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Description:The Monthly Climate Normals for 1991 to 2020 are 30-year averages of meteorological parameters that provide users the information needed to understand typical climate conditions for thousands of locations across the United States, as well as U.S. Territories and Commonwealths, and the Compact of Free Association nations. The stations used include those from the NWS Cooperative Observer Program (COOP) Network as well as some additional stations that have a Weather Bureau Army-Navy (WBAN) station identification number, including stations from the U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) and other automated observation stations. In addition, precipitation normals for stations from the U.S. Snow Telemetry (SNOTEL) Network and the citizen-science Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow (CoCoRaHS) Network are also available. The Monthly Climate Normals dataset includes various derived products such as air temperature normals (including maximum and minimum temperature normals, heating and cooling degree day normals, and others), precipitation normals (including precipitation and snowfall totals, and percentiles, frequencies and other statistics of precipitation, snowfall, and snow depth), and agricultural normals (growing degree days (GDDs)). All data utilized in the computation of the 1991-2020 Climate Normals were taken from the Global Historical Climatology Network-Daily and -Monthly datasets. Temperatures were homogenized, adjusted for time-of-observation, and made serially complete where possible based on information from nearby stations. Precipitation totals were also made serially complete where possible based using nearby stations. The source datasets (including intermediate datasets used in the computation of products) are also archived at NOAA NCEI.
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Content Notes:THIS RECORD IS A TEST EXAMPLE RECORD. NOAA NCEI and NOAA NWS will be primary users of this dataset. Other users include many federal, state, and local government agencies; corporations and individuals in all U.S. Economic Sectors, and the general public. The archived data will be be used to compare local climates across the United States. It will also be used to place current observations in context by allowing the calculation of anomalies (differences from normals) from a consistent reference period of record.
The Monthly Normals are generated from Global Historical Climatology Network Monthly V.4 and Daily V.3 using Fortran software routines developed for the 1981-2010 normals production and updated for technical improvements.
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Identifier:gov.noaa.ncdc:C01620
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Dataset:Arguez, A., I. Durre, S. Applequist, R. Vose, M. Squires, X. Yin, R. Heim, and T. Owen, 2012: NOAA's 1981-2010 climate normals: An overview. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 93, 1687-1697.
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Context:Digital document - digital representation of a primarily textual item (can contain illustrations also)
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Type:CSV
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Described By Type:ISO 19115-2 Metadata
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Rights Information:CC0 Public Domain
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Rights Statement:These normals are calculated at weather stations and are limited in their applicability at locations in between stations as distance from the station increases horizontally and vertically.
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