Daily Meteorological Data for U.S. Cooperative Stations from NCDC TD3200

The summaries of daily land surface observations in this data set are primarily from stations in the National Weather Service (NWS) cooperative station network, but also include NWS principal (first order) climatological stations, and stations supported by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), National Park Service (NPS), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), U.S. Forest Service (USFC), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), along with a handful of stations at Air Force and Navy bases. The sites are located in the contiguous U.S., Alaska, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Hawaii and other Pacific Islands.

The major parameters are daily weather, precipitation, snowfall, snow depth, maximum temperature, minimum temperature, and observation temperature. The earliest data is for 1854, but most stations begin in 1948. Periods of record vary widely among the stations.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1854-01-01
    End:  2011-08-31

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1854-01-01
Temporal Range End 2011-08-31
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 71.3
Bounding Box South Lat -36.2333
Bounding Box West Long -178.0608
Bounding Box East Long 179.2833
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 32806 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 National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Federal Aviation Agency, U.S. Department of Transportation
National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Publisher NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Publication Date 1981-04-10
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/B6MM-RS76
Alternate Identifier d510000
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress onGoing
Metadata Date 2025-10-03T00:44:41Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.gdex::d510000
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce, Federal Aviation Agency, U.S. Department of Transportation, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce. (1981). Daily Meteorological Data for U.S. Cooperative Stations from NCDC TD3200. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://doi.org/10.5065/B6MM-RS76. Accessed 07 October 2025.

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