GCIP/GIST: Surface Hourly Surface Composite

The GCIP/GIST Hourly Surface Composite contains data from several networks: Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS), Automated Weather Observing System (AWOS), Oklahoma Mesonet, DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurements (ARM), Southern Great Plains, Wind Profiler Demonstration Network, High Plains Climate network, and NCDC Surface Aviation Observation (SAO) sites. Data from 343 stations were reformatted, merged, and quality controlled to form this composite. These data files are available as ASCII text files and netCDF data files.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1994-04-01T00:00:00Z
    End:  1994-08-31T23:59:59Z

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 1994-08-31T23:59:59Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 45.00000
Bounding Box South Lat 30.00000
Bounding Box West Long -107.00000
Bounding Box East Long -85.00000
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links

Documentation #1 : Note_on_NetCDF_Data_File_Variable_Units.pdf

Documentation #2 : sfc60c.txt

Documentation #3 : WMO-0-20-003-present-weather.csv

Documentation #4 : WMO-0-20-011-cloud-amount.csv
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format QCF3.1: Quality Control Format (QCF) (ASCII) (Long Hourly, Codiac/Y2K from Dec 1999)
NetCDF: Network Common Data Form (application/x-netcdf)
Standardized Resource Format ASCII
NetCDF
Asset Size 544 MB
Legal Constraints

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Access Constraints none
Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name EOL Data Support
Resource Support Email datahelp@eol.ucar.edu
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Metadata Contact Name EOL Data Support
Metadata Contact Email datahelp@eol.ucar.edu
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Author N/A
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Publication Date 2011-08-24T17:30:26
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/D6VD6WRQ
Alternate Identifier 1.80
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-07T21:44:27Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::1.80
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation (2011). GCIP/GIST: Surface Hourly Surface Composite. 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5065/D6VD6WRQ. Accessed 31 October 2025.

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