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

Description

The U.S. Annual 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 in Canada. 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). In addition to the standard set of normals, users also can find "agricultural normals", which are used in many industries including but not limited to construction, architecture, pest control, etc. These supplemental "agricultural normals" include frost-freeze date probabilities, growing degree day normals, probabilities of reaching minimum temperature thresholds, and growing season length 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
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://doi.org/10.7289/V5PN93JP
47 File naming conventions used in the 10-Year Hourly Climate Normals, supplement to the 1981-2010 Climate Normals. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/normals/1981-2010/supplemental/documentation/hourly-10yr-filenames.txt
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 Dataset files available for download via FTP. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/normals/1981-2010/supplemental/
0 Information and resources for the US Climate Normals 1981-2010 dataset. https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/land-based-station-data/climate-normals/1981-2010-normals-data
47 List of stations used in the production of the Agricultural Normals, supplement to the 1981-2010 Climate Normals. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/normals/1981-2010/supplemental/station-inventories/agri-inventory.txt
47 List of stations used in the production of the Air Freezing Index (AFI) dataset, supplement to the 1981-2010 Climate Normals. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/normals/1981-2010/supplemental/station-inventories/afi-inventory.txt
47 File naming conventions used in the Agricultural Normals, supplement to the 1981-2010 Climate Normals. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/normals/1981-2010/supplemental/documentation/agricultural-normals-filenames.txt
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 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 README describing the 1981-2010 Supplemental Climate Normals. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/normals/1981-2010/supplemental/readme-supp.txt
47 Status of the 1981-2010 Supplemental Climate Normals. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/normals/1981-2010/supplemental/status-supp.txt
47 List of stations used in the production of the 10-Year Hourly Climate Normals, supplement to the 1981-2010 Climate Normals. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/normals/1981-2010/supplemental/station-inventories/hly-10yr-inventory.txt
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 For more information about the entire suite of Climate Normals products and 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
33 A pre-published science paper providing an overview of NOAA's Air Freezing Index (AFI) https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/normals/1981-2010/supplemental/documentation/afi-manuscript.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 Dataset files available for access via HTTP interface. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/normals/1981-2010/supplemental/
47 List of stations used in the production of the Growing Degree Days Product Normals, supplement to the 1981-2010 Climate Normals. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/normals/1981-2010/supplemental/station-inventories/grdd-inventory.txt

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  • vertical location
  • precipitation
  • united states of america
  • virgin islands
  • land surface
  • national climatic data center
  • atmospheric temperature
  • nesdis
  • precipitation amount
  • agriculture
  • atmosphere
  • continent
  • noaa
  • weather events
  • north america
  • thermometers
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • earth science
  • rain
  • freeze/frost
  • doc/noaa/nesdis/ncei
  • atmospheric phenomena
  • rain gauges
  • precipitation anomalies
  • frost
  • 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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