Great Lakes degree-day and winter severity index update : 1897-1983

Details

• Personal Author:
  Assel, Raymond A.
• Corporate Authors:
  Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
• NOAA Program & Office:
  OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; GLERL (Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory)
• Description:
  Daily maximum and minimum temperatures at 25 stations on the perimeter of the Great Lakes for the winters of 1977-1983 are used to calculate freezing degree-days and thawing degree-days. Daily, weekly, and monthly FDD's and daily TDD's for those years are presented in microfilm appendixes, which are available from the National Snow and Ice Data Center located in Boulder, Colorado. This report also updates an 80-winter FDD climatology and presents tabulations of the seasonal maximum FDD's and TDD's for each of the 86 winters and 87 summers between 1987 and 1983. The maximum FDD's are used to revise winter severity those winters with above and below normal severity over the 86-winter base period. The period of the update is remarkable in that it contained some of the most severe and most mild winters in the 86-year period.
• Keywords:
  Atmospheric Temperature Climate Degree Days Atmospheric Temperature Degree Days
• Series:
  NOAA data report ERL GLERL   29 ; GLERL Contribution no. 490  
• Format:
  pdf
• Document Type:
  Data Report
• Place as Subject:
  Great Lakes Region (North America)
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:21244a3ebc977492435f1ead9792c880cb2bf46cd7018a9cf4863568e01287d7c74470ea78c02ac0216ad22f4b70905ba23e30563fb92bc1df0e4fea06cc3388
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/70439/noaa_70439_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 35.25 MB ]