Name: GHCN-D World Monthly Climate Means 1981 - 2010
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Type: Feature Layer
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Description: Contains global weather station locations with data for monthly means from 1981 through 2010 for:
Average Daily Temperature
Daily Maximum Temperature
Daily Minimum Temperature
Precipitation
GHCND stations were included if there wereat least fifteen average daily temperatures available for all twelve months of the year for at least ten years between 1981 and 2010. 1,230 of the 4,620 stations did not collect precipitation data.
Additionallly, the highest daily high temperature and the lowest daily low temperature occuring between Jan 1, 1981 and Dec 31, 2010 for each station is also available.
Source Data:
Station locations compiled from: ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/ghcnd-stations.txt
Station Monthly Means compiled from Daily Data: ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/ghcnd_all.tar.gz
Citation:
Menne, M.J., I. Durre, B. Korzeniewski, S. McNeal, K. Thomas, X. Yin, S. Anthony, R. Ray, R.S. Vose, B.E.Gleason, and T.G. Houston, 2012: Global Historical Climatology Network - Daily (GHCN-Daily), Version 3.24