U.S. Climate Normals 2020: U.S. Hourly Climate Normals (2006-2020)

Description

The U.S. Hourly Climate Normals for 2006 to 2020 provide users supplemental hourly normals for specialized applications for hundreds of U.S. stations located across the 50 states, as well as U.S. Territories and Commonwealths, and the Compact of Free Association nations. These stations are now largely automated, and are usually part of the Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) or Automated Weather Observing System (AWOS). The hourly normals include temperature, dew point, heat index, wind chill, wind, cloudiness, heating and cooling degree hours, pressure normals, and other statistics of these variables. Users can access the data either by product or by station. All data utilized in the computation of the 2006-2020 Climate Normals were taken from the Integrated Surface Dataset (ISD) Lite (a subset of NCEI's Integrated Surface Dataset). These source datasets (including intermediate datasets used in the computation of products) are also archived at the NOAA NCEI.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 Landing page for the dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/metadata/geoportal/rest/metadata/item/gov.noaa.ncdc:C01626/html
0 Direct download for the dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/normals-hourly/2006-2020
0 Information on AWS data access. https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-climate-normals/
21 Browse view to explore the S3 bucket. https://noaa-normals-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html#normals-hourly/2006-2020/
0 Overview of the GCOS Essential Climate Variables. https://public.wmo.int/en/programmes/global-climate-observing-system/essential-climate-variables
0 Paper DOI https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00173.1
0 Related dataset web page with general information and access links for that dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/land-based-station/us-climate-normals#tab-1027
0 Related dataset web page with general information and access links for that dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/land-based-station/us-climate-normals#tab-331
0 Search for data via the interface https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/search/data-search/normals-hourly-2006-2020
33 The science and methodologies used to generate official climate normals for the United States. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/normals-hourly/2006-2020/doc/Normals_Calculation_Methodology_2020.pdf
21 Information on Microsoft Azure data access. https://microsoft.github.io/AIforEarthDataSets/data/noaa-climatenormals.html
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 Description of the data and related resources. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/land-based-station/us-climate-normals
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
47 This document describes the technical layout of the CSV normals files in both the individual, by-station, format and the grouped by-variable format. It also provides a guide to the location of the variables within the larger by-variable tar files. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/normals-hourly/2006-2020/doc/Readme_By-Variable_By-Station_Normals_Files.txt
8 This sample data file shows how the data are formatted in CSV and is for example purposes only. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/normals-hourly/2006-2020/doc/Normals_HLY_2006-2020_sample.csv
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
33 Normals User Guide that provides product descriptions and formats for all data and products produced and made available to users. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/normals-hourly/2006-2020/doc/Normals_HLY_Documentation_2006-2020.pdf
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

Tags

  • vertical location
  • cloud properties
  • dew point temperature
  • wind direction
  • united states of america
  • land surface
  • atmospheric temperature
  • nesdis
  • surface winds
  • sea level pressure
  • atmosphere
  • continent
  • atmospheric - surface - water vapour - dew point
  • cloud amount
  • noaa
  • air temperature
  • atmospheric - upper-air - cloud properties
  • north america
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • earth science
  • ocean
  • normals
  • climate indicators
  • doc/noaa/nesdis/ncei
  • wind speed
  • atmospheric - surface - air temperature
  • central pacific ocean
  • atmospheric - surface - air pressure
  • atmospheric pressure
  • clouds
  • atmospheric winds
  • pacific ocean
  • surface temperature
  • atmospheric - surface - wind speed and direction
  • point resolution
  • national centers for environmental information

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