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Title:

NCDC Summary of the Day, Cooperative Observer Network Climate Data (Central)

Source:

The data is from the U.S. National Climatic Data Center and is distributed on a CDROM from:

EarthInfo
5541 Central Avenue
Boulder, Colorado 80301
303-938-1788

Description:

EarthInfo's Summary of the Data climate data CDROMs contain all of the TD3200 data compiled the National Climatic Data Center. This includes the full period of record for observations (though 1997) at nearly 25,000 cooperating stations in all 50 states on 4 CDROMs (note: CGRER only has 1 of these CDROMs - U.S. Central).

The data includes daily and monthly totals along with extreme values for temperature, precipitation (including type of precipitation), and evaporation (very few stations have this). Monthly and yearly summaries can also be obtained. Information about station history, location (latitude/longitude) and time periods of data collection are available.

This CDROM can only be used on a PC and the menu-driven data retrieval program is primarily written for Windows. The retrieval software can export the data to a variety of formats such as Lotus, Dbase, and ASCII tabular text.

CGRER only has 1 of the 4 available CDROMs from EarthInfo and this includes data for the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, IOWA, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, West Virginia, Wisconsin.