Global Historical Climatology Network, 1753-1990

Description

This data set contains monthly temperature, precipitation, sea-level pressure, and station-pressure data for thousands of meteorological stations worldwide. The database was compiled from pre-existing national, regional, and global collections of data as part of the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) project, the goal of which is to produce, maintain, and make available a comprehensive global surface baseline climate data set for monitoring climate and detecting climate change. It contains data from roughly 6000 temperature stations, 7500 precipitation stations, 1800 sea level pressure stations, and 1800 station pressure stations. Each station has at least 10 years of data, 40% have more than 50 years of data. Spatial coverage is good over most of the globe, particularly for the United States and Europe. Data gaps are evident over the Amazon rainforest, the Sahara Desert, Greenland, and Antarctica.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation https://daac.ornl.gov/CLIMATE/guides/CDIAC_NDP41.html
21 Data set Landing Page DOI URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/220
33 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/global_climate/CDIAC_NDP41/comp/CDIAC_NDP41.pdf
21 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/global_climate/CDIAC_NDP41/comp/flag.for
21 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/global_climate/CDIAC_NDP41/comp/flag.sas
21 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/global_climate/CDIAC_NDP41/comp/invent.sas
21 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/global_climate/CDIAC_NDP41/comp/precip.flag.Z
21 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/global_climate/CDIAC_NDP41/comp/press.sea.flag.Z
21 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/global_climate/CDIAC_NDP41/comp/press.sta.flag.Z
21 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/global_climate/CDIAC_NDP41/comp/press.sta.statinv
21 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/global_climate/CDIAC_NDP41/comp/temp.flag.Z
16 Browse Image https://daac.ornl.gov/CLIMATE/guides/ndp041_precip.gif
21 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/global_climate/CDIAC_NDP41/comp/invent.for
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.3334%2FORNLDAAC%2F220
21 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/global_climate/CDIAC_NDP41/comp/data.sas
21 This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login https://daac.ornl.gov/daacdata/global_climate/CDIAC_NDP41/
21 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/global_climate/CDIAC_NDP41/comp/ndp041.txt
21 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/global_climate/CDIAC_NDP41/comp/data.for
21 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/global_climate/CDIAC_NDP41/comp/cocodes.f2
21 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/global_climate/CDIAC_NDP41/comp/cocodes.f1
21 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/global_climate/CDIAC_NDP41/comp/press.sea.statinv
21 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/global_climate/CDIAC_NDP41/comp/temp.statinv
21 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/global_climate/CDIAC_NDP41/comp/precip.statinv

Tags

  • precipitation
  • atmosphere
  • atmospheric-temperature
  • atmospheric-pressure
  • earth-science

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