NCRFC WSR-88D Stage III Hourly Precipitation Imagery

This data set contains data from the NOAA North Central River Forecast Center (NCRFC). The NCRFC routinely ingests WSR-88D precipitation derived products (Level III) from each of the radar sites with coverage in the Upper Mississippi River Basin. In addition the NCRFC ingests real-time precipitation data from several hundred gages. The NCRFC produces a number of derived or "Stage" products using the radar and precipitation gage data. A Stage II product is produced by merging radar precipitation estimates (Stage I) with ground truth data provided by the gages. The Stage II estimates are then composited into a Stage III precipitation 4 x 4 km resolution area averaged mosaic for the Upper Mississippi River Basin.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1997-10-01T00:00:00Z
    End:  1998-05-31T23:59:59Z

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 1998-05-31T23:59:59Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 50.00000
Bounding Box South Lat 37.00000
Bounding Box West Long -99.00000
Bounding Box East Long -85.00000
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Spatial Resolution N/A
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Documentation #1 : ncrfc_hourly.txt
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Resource Format GIF: Graphics Interchange Format (image/gif)
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Asset Size 134 MB
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Author NOAA North Central River Forecast Center
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Publication Date 1999-09-16T10:29:57
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.26023/QBCS-72T4-0X0Z
Alternate Identifier 18.033
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-07T21:47:28Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::18.033
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation NOAA North Central River Forecast Center. (1999). NCRFC WSR-88D Stage III Hourly Precipitation Imagery. 1.0. https://doi.org/10.26023/QBCS-72T4-0X0Z. Accessed 30 October 2025.

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