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noaa-ncdc-c00841

Monthly Summaries of the Global Historical Climatology Network - Daily (GHCN-D)

Monthly Summaries of Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN)-Daily is a dataset derived from GHCN-Daily. The data are produced by computing simple averages or monthly accumulations of the daily observations. The meteorological elements calculated for the data set include, but are not limited to: monthly maximum and minimum temperature, monthly precipitation (i.e., rainfall and snow water equivalent), snowfall and snow depth. Users of these monthly summaries have access to simple meteorological summaries for tens of thousands of stations worldwide.

http://gis.ncdc.noaa.gov/all-records/catalog/search/resource/details.page?id=gov.noaa.ncdc:C00841

The spatial range for this dataset is -90.0° to 90.0° latitude, and -180.0° to 180.0° longitude. map (center)

Also known as :

• identifier b55c90db-5760-4730-a6b5-81a98c67b70c (datagov lexicon)
• dataset monthly-summaries-of-the-global-historical-climatology-network-daily-ghcn-d (datagov lexicon)