U.S. Daily Surface Data (COOP Daily/Summary of Day)

Description

U.S. Daily Surface Data consists of several closely related data sets: DSI-3200, DSI-3202, DSI-3206, and DSI-3210. These are archived at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). U.S. Daily Surface Data is sometimes called cooperative data or COOP, named after the cooperative observers that recorded the data. In any one year there are about 8,000 stations operating. Most cooperative observers are state universities, state or federal agencies, or private individuals whose stations are managed and maintained by the National Weather Service. Each cooperative observer station may record as little as one parameter (precipitation), or several parameters. U.S. Daily Surface Data is also called Summary of the Day data. The original data was manuscript records, the earliest of which are from the 1800s. Records for approximately 23,000 stations have been archived from the beginning of record through the present. Official surface weather observation standards can be found in the Federal Meteorological Handbook.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
33 Data Documentation for Preliminary Cooperative Summary of the Day https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/documentlibrary/tddoc/td3202.pdf
33 Data Documentation for Summary of the Day - First Order https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/documentlibrary/tddoc/td3210.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
0 Landing page for the dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/metadata/geoportal/rest/metadata/item/gov.noaa.ncdc:C00314/html
0 To access the original format of the data, contact Customer Engagement Branch for more information. https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/customer-support
33 Data Documentation for Surface Land Daily Cooperative Summary of the Day https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/documentlibrary/tddoc/td3200.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
0 Historical daily summaries from the COOP network (COOP Daily) and Summary of Day data from worldwide air field stations operated by the National Weather Service, Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Air Force, and U.S. Navy. The Coop daily provides primarily temperature, precipitation, and snowfall data since 1850. Summary of Day Data provides extremes and averages of most weather elements observed as global hourly data, some as early as 1873. https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datasets
33 Data Documentation for COOP Summary of the Day - CDMP - Pre 1948 https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/documentlibrary/tddoc/td3206.pdf
0 NCEI home page with information, data access and contact information. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov

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  • north america
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