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Datasets

NOAA Monthly U.S. Climate Gridded Dataset (NClimGrid)

Domain: Climate

Variables: Temperature, maximum; Temperature, minimum; Temperature, average; Precipitation

Spatial Resolution: 5 kilometer

Temporal Frequency: monthly

Temporal Coverage: 1895 - Present

Spatial Extent: Continental United States

Source: NOAA

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Description:

The NOAA Monthly U.S. Climate Gridded Dataset (NClimGrid) consists of four climate variables derived from the GHCN-D dataset: maximum temperature, minimum temperature, average temperature and precipitation. Each file provides monthly values in a 5x5 lat/lon grid for the Continental United States. Data is available from 1895 to the present. On an annual basis, approximately one year of “final” nClimGrid will be submitted to replace the initially supplied “preliminary” data for the same time period. Users should be sure to ascertain which level of data is required for their research.

Citation:

Vose, R. S., Applequist, S., Squires, M., Durre, I., Menne, M. J., Williams, C. N., Jr., Fenimore, C., Gleason, K., and Arndt, D., 2014, Improved Historical Temperature and Precipitation Time Series for U.S. Climate Divisions, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 53(5), pp 1232-1251, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-13-0248.1