LDM Surface METAR Hourly Data

The Surface METAR Data set is one of several surface data sets collected by the National Center for Atmospheric Research/ Earth Observing Laboratory (NCAR/EOL). Included in the data set are the global hourly surface meteorological observations in NCAR/EOL columnar ascii surface QC format. These data are contained in daily files which are compressed in gzip format (.gz). The data were aquired via the UNIDATA Local Data Manager (LDM).

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
    End:  2004-09-30T23:59:00Z

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2004-09-30T23:59:00Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 50.00000
Bounding Box South Lat 5.00000
Bounding Box West Long -125.00000
Bounding Box East Long -75.00000
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links

Documentation #1 : LDM_SFC_METAR.html
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format GNU Zip (.gz) Format (application/x-gzip)
Standardized Resource Format Archive
Asset Size 139 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
Resource Support Organization NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory
Distributor NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory
Metadata Contact Name EOL Data Support
Metadata Contact Email datahelp@eol.ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory

Author NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory ORCID icon
Publisher NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory
Publication Date 2008-10-07T06:50:45
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.26023/ZCSS-13AY-JF04
Alternate Identifier 82.164
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-07T21:48:22Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::82.164
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory. (2008). LDM Surface METAR Hourly Data. 1.0. NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26023/ZCSS-13AY-JF04. Accessed 24 January 2026.

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