NOAA Monthly U.S. Climate Gridded Dataset (NClimGrid)

Description

The NOAA Monthly U.S. Climate Gridded Dataset (NClimGrid) consists of four climate variables derived from the GHCN-D dataset: maximum temperature, minimum temperature, average temperature and precipitation. Each file provides monthly values in a 5x5 lat/lon grid for the Continental United States. Data is available from 1895 to the present. In March 2015, new Alaska data was included in the nClimDiv dataset. The Alaska nClimDiv data were created and updated using similar methodology as that for the CONUS. It includes maximum temperature, minimum temperature, average temperature and precipitation. In January 2025, the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) began summarizing the State of the Climate for Hawaii. This was made possible through a collaboration between NCEI and the University of Hawaii/Hawaii Climate Data Portal and completes a long-standing gap in NCEI's ability to characterize the State of the Climate for all 50 states. NCEI maintains monthly statewide, divisional, and gridded average temperature, maximum temperatures (highs), minimum temperature (lows) and precipitation data for Hawaii over the period 1991-2025.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 For more information about NClimDiv, please refer to the linked resource https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/metadata/geoportal/rest/metadata/item/gov.noaa.ncdc%3AC00005/html
0 Hawaii Climate Data Portal https://www.hawaii.edu/climate-data-portal/
0 Landing page for the dataset. https://doi.org/10.7289/V5SX6B56
47 Please refer to the README file for more information about the dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/cirs/climgrid/gridded-readme.txt
0 Direct download location for archive files https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/nclimgrid-monthly/access
0 Direct download location for real-time files https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/cirs/climgrid/
21 THREDDS Data Service for the dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/thredds/catalog/data-in-development/nclimgrid/catalog.html
0 Direct download location for the documentation files https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/nclimgrid-monthly/doc/
0 Information on AWS data access. https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-nclimgrid/
21 Browse view to explore the S3 bucket. https://noaa-nclimgrid-monthly-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html
21 Information on Microsoft Azure data access. https://microsoft.github.io/AIforEarthDataSets/data/noaa-nclimgrid.html
0 NCEI home page with information, data access and contact information. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 Overview of the GCOS Essential Climate Variables. https://public.wmo.int/en/programmes/global-climate-observing-system/essential-climate-variables
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 Vose, R. S., Applequist, S., Squires, M., Durre, I., Menne, M. J., Williams, C. N., Jr., Fenimore, C., Gleason, K., & Arndt, D. (2014). Improved Historical Temperature and Precipitation Time Series for U.S. Climate Divisions, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 53(5), 1232-1251. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-13-0248.1 https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-13-0248.1

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  • interpolation schemes
  • vertical location
  • precipitation
  • united states of america
  • land surface
  • national climatic data center
  • atmospheric temperature
  • nesdis
  • precipitation amount
  • monthly climatology
  • atmosphere
  • continent
  • noaa
  • north america
  • thermometers
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • earth science
  • 1 km - < 10 km or approximately .01 degree - < .09 degree
  • climate change
  • doc/noaa/nesdis/ncei
  • climatology
  • rain gauges
  • atmospheric - surface - air temperature
  • meteorological stations
  • maximum/minimum temperature
  • doc/noaa/nesdis/ncdc
  • atmospheric - surface - precipitation
  • surface observations
  • surface temperature
  • national centers for environmental information

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