End-of-Day Temperature and Precipitation for Long-Period U.S. and Canadian Stations

Daily maximum and minimum temperature and precipitation amount are available for 497 U.S. and Canadian stations, which were extracted from other DSS datasets because of their long periods of record. The general period of record is 1874 to 1979, but it varies by individual station. For the U.S. stations, no period is shorter than 29 years, with most being much longer. There is more variation in the periods of the Canadian stations. For specific station information, you should view the inventories. Most users will probably want to use the ASCII record format, but a packed-binary version of the data is also available. For more information about the data itself, please see the source datasets. The Texas stations were extracted from ds510.2. The other U.S. stations were selected from ds510.4, ds520.0, and ds521.0. The Canadian stations are from ds516.0.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1874-10-01
    End:  1979-12-31

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1874-10-01
Temporal Range End 1979-12-31
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 ASCII
Standardized Resource Format ASCII
Asset Size 228.332 MB
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Software Implementation Language N/A

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Distributor NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange
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Author Climate Analysis Section, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Publisher NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Publication Date 1980-03-20
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/SP7Q-WV40
Alternate Identifier d522000
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-09T01:25:50Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.gdex::d522000
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Climate Analysis Section, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. (1980). End-of-Day Temperature and Precipitation for Long-Period U.S. and Canadian Stations. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://doi.org/10.5065/SP7Q-WV40. Accessed 16 October 2025.

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