A Quality-Controlled Dataset for Long-Term U.S. Snowfall Trends

NCDC's U.S. Cooperative Summary of Data (DSI3200) dataset was screened for stations with long continuous observations for use in assessing 20th-century U.S. snowfall trends. The result is a subset of 424 stations with quality-controlled snowfall, precipitation, and temperature data for snow-season months (October through May). Most of the stations have observations that begin prior to the winter of 1930-31, making for station periods of longer than 77 winters. Several stations have data as far back as the 1890s.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1890-01-01
    End:  2007-05-31

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1890-01-01
Temporal Range End 2007-05-31
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 48.9992
Bounding Box South Lat 31.9378
Bounding Box West Long -124.3667
Bounding Box East Long -69.7161
Spatial Representation N/A
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links N/A
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format NCDC_TD3200
Standardized Resource Format OTHER
Asset Size 573.00 MB
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Access Constraints None
Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name Bob Dattore
Resource Support Email dattore@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization NSF NCAR - Geoscience Data Exchange
Distributor NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange
Metadata Contact Name N/A
Metadata Contact Email datahelp@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange

Author Midwestern Regional Climate Center, Water Survey, Dept. of Natural Resources, Illinois
Publisher NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Publication Date 2009-03-25
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Not Assigned
Alternate Identifier d510005
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-03T00:44:44Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.gdex::d510005
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Midwestern Regional Climate Center, Water Survey, Dept. of Natural Resources, Illinois. (2009). A Quality-Controlled Dataset for Long-Term U.S. Snowfall Trends. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d510005/. Accessed 06 October 2025.

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