U.S. Hourly Climate Normals (1981-2010)

Description

The U.S. Hourly Climate Normals for 1981 to 2010 are 30-year averages of meteorological parameters for thousands of U.S. stations located across the 50 states, as well as U.S. territories, commonwealths, the Compact of Free Association nations, and one station inCanada. NOAA Climate Normals are a large suite of data products that provide users with many tools to understand typical climate conditions for thousands of locations across the United States. As many NWS stations as possible are used, including those from the NWS Cooperative Observer Program (COOP) Network as well as some additional stations that have a Weather Bureau Army-Navy (WBAN) station identification number, including stations from the Climate Reference Network (CRN). The comprehensive U.S. Climate Normals dataset includes various derived products including daily air temperature normals (including maximum and minimum temperature normal, heating and cooling degree day normal, and others), precipitation normals (including snowfall and snow depth, percentiles, frequencies and other), and hourly normals (all normal derived from hourly data including temperature, dew point, heat index, wind chill, wind, cloudiness, heating and cooling degree hours, pressure normals). Users can access the data either by product or by station. Included in the dataset is extensive documentation to describe station metadata, filename descriptions, and methodology of producing the data. All data utilized in the computation of the 1981-2010 Climate Normals were taken from the ISD Lite (a subset of derived Integrated Surface Data), the Global Historical Climatology Network-Daily dataset, and standardized monthly temperature data (COOP). These source datasets (including intermediate datasets used in the computation of products) are also archived at the NOAA NCDC.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
23 ArcGIS Server REST API for the dataset. https://gis.ncdc.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/cdo/normals/MapServer
25 Direct download link for KMZ file. https://gis.ncdc.noaa.gov/kml/normal_hly.kmz
47 README describing the 1981-2010 Climate Normals. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/normals/1981-2010/readme.txt
47 Status of the 1981-2010 Climate Normals. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/normals/1981-2010/status.txt
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/1981-2010/
21 Information on Microsoft Azure data access. https://microsoft.github.io/AIforEarthDataSets/data/noaa-climatenormals.html
0 Information and resources for the US Climate Normals 1981-2010 dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/land-based-station/us-climate-normals#tab-331
0 NCEI home page with information, data access and contact information. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov
0 Dataset files available via direct download. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/normals/1981-2010/
0 Search for the dataset via a text-based interface. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/cdo-web/search?datasetid=NORMAL_HLY
33 Documentation of the dataset including a data description, format layout and definitions. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/cdo/documentation/NORMAL_HLY_documentation.pdf
0 Scott Applequist, Anthony Arguez, Imke Durre, Michael F. Squires, Russell S. Vose, and Xungang Yin, 2012: 1981-2010 U.S. Hourly Normals. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 93, 1637-1640. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00173.1 https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00173.1
0 Dynamic GIS mapping application to locate stations and data for selected layers. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/maps/normals/?layers=000000000001
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://doi.org/10.7289/V5PN93JP
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 For more information about the entire suite of Climate Normals products and links to general documentation, please view the Climate Normals Product Suite (1981-2010) Landing Page https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/metadata/geoportal/rest/metadata/item/gov.noaa.ncdc:C00820/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 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
8 This sample data file shows how the data are formatted in CSV and is for example purposes only. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/cdo/samples/NORMAL_HLY_sample_csv.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
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 This sample data file shows how the data are formatted in fixed-length ASCII text and is for example purposes only. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/cdo/samples/NORMAL_HLY_sample_ascii.dat
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
  • precipitation
  • united states of america
  • virgin islands
  • land surface
  • national climatic data center
  • atmospheric temperature
  • nesdis
  • precipitation amount
  • atmosphere
  • continent
  • noaa
  • north america
  • thermometers
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • earth science
  • rain
  • doc/noaa/nesdis/ncei
  • rain gauges
  • precipitation anomalies
  • liquid precipitation
  • meteorological stations
  • maximum/minimum temperature
  • doc/noaa/nesdis/ncdc
  • temperature anomalies
  • puerto rico
  • surface temperature
  • degree days
  • point resolution
  • national centers for environmental information

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