NCDC TD3210 U.S. First Order Summary of Day

This data set from the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) contains summary of the day first order station surface weather observations. The stations are operated by the National Weather Service (NWS), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the U.S. Air Force (Air Weather Service), and the U.S. Navy (Navy Weather Detachment). The NWS and FAA sites are located in the contiguous U.S., Alaska, Puerto Rico, Hawaii and other Pacific Islands. The Air Force and Navy operate stations worldwide.

The observations were generally recorded midnight to midnight for the 24-hour period. The major data parameters are wind, maximum temperature, minimum temperature, wet-bulb temperature, dew-point temperature, maximum relative humidity, minimum relative humidity, precipitation, station pressure, sea level pressure, snowfall, snow depth, and present weather. The earliest data is for 1881 but most stations begin in 1948. Periods of record vary widely among the stations.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1881-07-01
    End:  2009-05-31

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1881-07-01
Temporal Range End 2009-05-31
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat N/A
Bounding Box South Lat N/A
Bounding Box West Long N/A
Bounding Box East Long N/A
Spatial Representation N/A
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links N/A
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format NCDC_TD3210 (ASCII)
Standardized Resource Format ASCII
Asset Size 4191 MB
Legal Constraints

Use of this dataset is subject to UCAR's Terms of Use, except that commercial use is generally not prohibited.
Access Constraints Registration on the RDA web site is a requirement for access to the data.
Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name Bob Dattore
Resource Support Email dattore@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive
Distributor NCAR Research Data Archive
Metadata Contact Name N/A
Metadata Contact Email rdahelp@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization NCAR Research Data Archive

Author National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Federal Aviation Agency, U.S. Department of Transportation
557th Weather Wing, U.S. Air Force, U. S. Department of Defense
Publisher Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory
Publication Date 1987-10-14
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/H0J8-V485
Alternate Identifier ds509.0
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2024-01-03T15:11:44-07:00
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.rda::ds509.0
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce, Federal Aviation Agency, U.S. Department of Transportation, 557th Weather Wing, U.S. Air Force, U. S. Department of Defense. (1987). NCDC TD3210 U.S. First Order Summary of Day. Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/H0J8-V485. Accessed 18 April 2024.

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