National Climatic Data Center
1991
Climate Divisions
1.1
Series_Name Open-file
Reston, Virginia
U.S. Geological Survey
http://water.usgs.gov/lookup/getspatial?climate_div
This is a coverage of climate divisions from the National Climatic
Data Center.
climate
This coverage was intended for displaying seasonal maps of
precipitation and temperature in the National Water Summary
series of reports.
Procedures_Used:
The following is taken from original documentation supplied by
Curtis Price:
THIS COVERAGE BEGAN AS TWO TEXT FILES OF IDS AND COORDINATES AND
A FILE OF LABEL ATTRIBUTES SUPPLIED BY NCDC. ONE TEXT FILE HAS
BOUNDARY ARCS OF CLIMATE DIVISIONS (NOT INCLUDING STATE BOUNDARIES)
AND THE OTHER HAS LABEL COORDINATES FOR CLIMATE DIVISION POLYGONS
ATTRIBUTES INCLUDED A STATE NUMBER (ST#) AND A DIVISION NUMBER
WITHIN THAT STATE (1-9) (DIV#). STATE BOUNDARIES WERE NOT READILY
AVAILABLE IN A NICE CLEAN FORMAT THAT COULD BE EASILY GENERATED
INTO POLYGONS WITH THE BOUNDARY DATA. A USA COVERAGE WE HAD IN
NEW JERSEY WAS IN AN UNKOWN ALBERS PROJECTION. IT WAS WARPED
TO MATCH THE CLIMATE DIVISION BOUNDARIES USING ARCEDIT/ADJUST
PROCESSING. BECAUSE OF THIS, THE ACCURACY OF THIS COVERAGE IS
NOT THAT GOOD, BUT IS CERTAINLY SUITABLE FOR ANALYSIS AT SCALES
GREATER THAN 1:20M.
Revisions:
Rev 1.0 Original coversion by Curtis Price
Process_Date 03/21/90
Rev 1.1 Conversion to workstation. Documentation
revised to standard format.
Process_Date 12/23/91
Reviews_Applied_to_Data:
Related_Spatial_and_Tabular_Data_Sets:
Other_References_Cited:
Notes:
1990
(Here you put information defining how the time period of
content information, on the DOC file, was determined)
(Here you pick one of the following entries that describes
how often changes or additions are made to the data set.
Pick one, and delete the rest)
Continually
Daily
Weekly
Monthly
Annually
Unknown
As Needed
Irregular
None planned
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48.18683511
23.25677934
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NOAA Climate Divisions
inlandWaters
None
Conterminous United States
None
None
None
None
(describe any restrictions or legal prerequisites for accessing
the data set. Put "None" if there are no restrictions)
The data are of unknown quality and should be used with
caution for analytical purposes.
Ken Lanfear
U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Div. (WRD)
Network Information Products Coordinator for WRD
mailing address
12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, MS-440
Reston
VA
20191
USA
1-888-275-8747
703-648-5295
lanfear@usgs.gov
7:30am-4:00pm EST
Please contact thru email
http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/browse/climate_div.gif
Illlustration of data set
GIF
(Here you acknowledge the agencies and organizations that gave
you money, resources, and encouragement to digitize the data and
to enter all this wonderful metadata.)
None
Unclassified
None
dgux, 5.4R3.10, AViiON UNIX, ARC/INFO version 7.0.4
See Entity_Attribute_Information
See Explanation
Attribute accuracy is described, where present, with each
attribute defined in the Entity and Attribute Section.
Polygon and chain-node topology present.
(Information in wordy narrative form describing omissions,
selection criteria, generalization, definitions used, and other
rules applied to derive the data set)
(An explanation of the accuracy of the horizontal coordinate
measurements and a description of tests used, if any, to
determine horizontal positional accuracy. This is different
from horizontal resolution as reported in the DOC file.
Positional accuracy defines how correctly the digital features
match real-world features and woiuld be related to the concept
of the National Map Accuracy Standard -- xx% of well-defined
point features fall within xx units of their true position.
The resolution is the smallest unit of measure the GIS can
reliably manage without truncation or rounding.)
(The same as above, but for vertical information that may
be encoded with the 2-D features such as cell or contour
estimates of a vertical dimension. A description of the
contour interval of input data and its basis could be described
here.)
Unspecified
0000
Unspecified
20,000,000
Unspecified
0000
Unspecified
Unspecified
Unspecified
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RENAME CDIV2 CDIVP
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1252
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COPY KJL1>SEASONS>CDIVP
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1428
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1017
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IDEDIT CDIVP3 POLY
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IDEDIT CDIVP3 LINE
None
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ARCEDIT <WRDWS1>KJL1>NWS88>CDIVP3
None
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ARCEDIT <WRDWS1>KJL1>NWS88>CDIVP3
None
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1211
None
COPY CDIVP3B CDIVP3C
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19900509
0819
None
IDEDIT CDIVP3C POLY
None
19900509
0819
None
IDEDIT CDIVP3C LINE
None
19900509
0820
None
CREATELABELS CDIVP3C 1001
None
19900509
0829
None
IDEDIT CDIVP3C POLY
None
19900509
0830
None
ARCEDIT <WRDWS1>KJL1>NWS88>CDIVP3C
None
19900509
0908
None
BUILD CDIVP3C
None
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0912
None
COPY KJL1>NWS88>CDIVP3C CLIMATE_DIV
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1352
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COPY KJL1>SEASONAL_MAPS>BASE>CLIMATE_DIV
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IMPORT COVER CLIMATE_DIV CLIMATE_DIV
None
19911206
1458
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DOCUMENT CLIMATE_DIV CREATE LANFEAR
None
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1600
None
DOCUMENT CLIMATE_DIV UPDATE LANFEAR
None
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COPY /DSDL/NEWDLG/CLIMATE_DIV CLIMATE_DIV
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COPY /DSDL/INDEXES/CLIMATE_DIV /DSDL/DATALIB/CUSA/TILES/CUSA/CLIMATE_DIV
None
19920310
0759
None
DOCUMENT CLIMATE_DIV UPDATE MNEGRI
None
19920310
0801
None
IMPORT COVER CLIMATE_DIV.E00 CLIMATE_DIV
None
19920930
0830
None
COPY CLIMATE_DIV /DSDL1/CUSA/TILES/CUSA/CLIMATE_DIV
None
19920930
0835
None
FOOTPRINT CLIMATE_DIV BND CLIMATE_DIV.BND FOOTPRINT
None
19920930
0914
None
EXTERNALALL
None
19930106
1112
None
EXTERNALALL
None
19930106
1115
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EXPORT COVER /DSDL1/CUSA/TILES/CUSA/CLIMATE_DIV CLIMATE_DIV.E00
None
19930113
0943
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EXPORT COVER CLIMATE_DIV CLIMATE_DIV_CUSA.E00
None
19940531
1114
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MNEGRI SDTSEXPORT /DSDL1/CUSA/TILES/CUSA/CLIMATE_DIV PREF
None
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JPORTER DOCUMENT CLIMATE_DIV DELETE JPORTER
None
19950117
1028
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JPORTER DOCUMENT CLIMATE_DIV COPY /HOME/GIS/LANFEAR/NEWDOC/COVERS/CLIMATE_DIV JP
None
19950117
1030
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JPORTER EXPORT COVER /DSDL1/CUSA/TILES/CUSA/CLIMATE_DIV CLIMATE_DIV
None
19950120
1258
None
JPORTER DOCUMENT CLIMATE_DIV DELETE JPORTER
None
19950223
1148
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JPORTER DOCUMENT CLIMATE_DIV COPY /HOME/GIS/LANFEAR/NEWDOC/COVERS/CLIMATE_DI
None
19950223
1149
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MNEGRI EXPORT COVER CLIMATE_DIV /SCRATCH_AREA1/MNEGRI/CLIMATE_DIV.E00 NONE
None
19950919
1534
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Vector
Point
351
String
1139
GT-polygon composed of chains
360
Albers Conical Equal Area
29.5
45.5
-96
23
0.0
0.0
coordinate pair
1.0
1.0
METERS
Unknown
Clarke 1866
6378206.4
294.98
CLIMATE_DIV.PAT
Polygon attribute table
National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
AREA
Area of polygon in square coverage units
Computed
Positive real numbers
unspecified
unspecified
PERIMETER
Perimeter of polygon in coverage units
Computed
Positive real numbers
unspecified
unspecified
CLIMATE_DIV#
Internal feature number
Computed
Sequential unique positive integer
unspecified
unspecified
CLIMATE_DIV-ID
User-assigned feature number
User-defined
Integer
unspecified
unspecified
CDIV#
Climate division number
National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
No restrictions
unspecified
unspecified
NAME
Name of climate division
National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
No restrictions
unspecified
unspecified
ST
State abbreviation
National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
No restrictions
unspecified
unspecified
SEQ#
Arbitrary sequence number
National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
No restrictions
unspecified
unspecified
ST#
State code -- NOT FIPS
National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
NOT FIPS -- used by NCDC
unspecified
unspecified
DIV#
Climate division within state
National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
No restrictions
unspecified
unspecified
PRE.MEAN
Mean annual precipitation, 1951-80, inches
National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
No restrictions
unspecified
unspecified
PRE.STD
Standard deviation of annual precip
National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
No restrictions
unspecified
unspecified
TMP.MEAN
Mean annual temperature, 1951-80, inches
National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
No restrictions
unspecified
unspecified
TMP.STD
Standard deviation of temperature
National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
No restrictions
unspecified
unspecified
PCT
Working variable
Local
No restrictions
unspecified
unspecified
STDIV
Working variable
Local
No restrictions
unspecified
unspecified
COLOR
Working variable
Local
No restrictions
unspecified
unspecified
STDIV#
Climate division code
National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
No restrictions
unspecified
unspecified
CLIMATE_DIV.AAT
Arc attribute table
National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
FNODE#
Internal number of from-node
Computed
Sequential unique positive integer
unspecified
unspecified
TNODE#
Internal number of to-node
Computed
Sequential unique positive integer
unspecified
unspecified
LPOLY#
Internal number of polygon to left of arc
Computed
Sequential unique positive integer
unspecified
unspecified
RPOLY#
Internal number of polygon to right of arc
Computed
Sequential unique positive integer
unspecified
unspecified
LENGTH
Length of arc in coverage units
Computed
Positive real numbers
unspecified
unspecified
CLIMATE_DIV#
Internal feature number
Computed
Sequential unique positive integer
unspecified
unspecified
CLIMATE_DIV-ID
User-assigned feature number
User-defined
Integer
unspecified
unspecified
TYPE
Working variable
Local
No restrictions
unspecified
unspecified
SYM
Working variable
Local
No restrictions
unspecified
unspecified
The covearage contains a variety of working items used in processing
the National Water Summary reports.
CAUTION -- State codes identified by ST# are NOT the standard
FIPS codes used in other coverages. The ST item, or
state abbreviation, is recommended for identifying
states.
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