Identification

Title

NCDC's TD3720 USSR Monthly Precipitation For 622 Stations 1891-1999

Alternative title(s)

d577005

Abstract

<p>"The archive contains mean monthly precipitation data for the period 1891-1999 for 622 stations of the former Soviet Union and a set of metadata files that is essential for the use of these data in climate change studies.", quoted from the NCDC abstract.</p> <p>"This dataset includes all the monthly precipitation data in the [ds564.0] <a href="http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds564.0/"> NCDC Global Historical Climate Network</a> and more, and has corrections for wind, wetting, and gauge type.", quoted from for <a href="http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds488.0/#!docs">NSIDC documentation for ds488.0</a></p>

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d577005/

protocol: https

name: Dataset Description

description: Related Link

function: information

https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d577005/dataaccess/

protocol: https

name: Data Access

description: Related Link

function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

codeSpace

Dataset language

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

dataset

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2021-03-30

Keyword set

keyword value

WEATHER STATIONS > WEATHER STATIONS

FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS > FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS

GROUND STATIONS > GROUND STATIONS

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2025-10-03

Keyword set

keyword value

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2025-10-03

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

East bounding longitude

North bounding latitude

South bounding latitude

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1891

End position

1999

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2007-01-10

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Limitations on public access

None

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

email address

datahelp@ucar.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange

email address

datahelp@ucar.edu

web address

https://gdex.ucar.edu

name: NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange

description: The Geoscience Data Exchange (GDEX), managed by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at NSF NCAR, contains a large collection of meteorological, atmospheric composition, and oceanographic observations, and operational and reanalysis model outputs, integrated with NSF NCAR High Performance Compute services to support atmospheric and geosciences research.

function: download

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2025-10-09T01:27:09Z

Metadata language