nca3-cddv2-r1

U.S. Climate Divisional Dataset Version 2

Published in 2014. Version 2.

For many years the Climate Divisional Dataset was the only long-term temporally and spatially complete dataset from which to generate historical climate analyses (1895-2013) for the contiguous United States (CONUS). It was originally developed for climate-division, statewide, regional, national, and population-weighted monitoring of drought, temperature, precipitation, and heating/cooling degree day values. Since the dataset was at the divisional spatial scale, it naturally lent itself to agricultural and hydrological applications. There are 344 climate divisions in the CONUS. For each climate division, monthly station temperature and precipitation values are computed from the daily observations. The divisional values are weighted by area to compute statewide values and the statewide values are weighted by area to compute regional values. (Karl and Koss, 1984).

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/monitoring-references/maps/us-climate-divisions.php

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This dataset was released on April 29, 1996.

The temporal extent of this dataset is 1895-01-01T00:00:00/2013-12-31T00:00:00.

• 1 figure was derived from this dataset : figure usgcrp-climate-human-health-assessment-2016 3.
• 30 images were derived from this dataset : image 0eaa9484, image 5859d2b2, image 048de6b5, image a563238b, image 198a8131, image 3ae87b76, image 68537d68, image 230cb2f8, image a9caeffd, image 1f5a3cdd, image db4d291d, image 36c13a53, image b180cfd9, image fa83c34b, image 8e74f576, image a92a35a8, image fe1ad9b9, image 2d6fb90b, image ca983a87, image 26a28c2a, image b31b1d99, image 02c53cf7, image 08fa4162, image 710ebfc3, image 4532af53, image 77065e97, image 5d1545df, image 8fdaad30, image 4f468fd5, image f22a5f95.

When citing this dataset please refer to Vose, R., S. Applequist, M. Squires, I. Durre, M. Menne, C. Williams, C. Fenimore, K. Gleason, and D. Arndt, 2014: Improved Historical Temperature and Precipitation Time Series For U.S. Climate Divisions. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol. doi:10.1175/JAMC-D-13-0248.1, in press..

Attributes : Monthly average maximum temperature, monthly average minimum temperature, monthly average temperature, total monthly precipitation