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U.S. Climate Normals 2020: U.S. Hourly Climate Normals (1991-2020)
The U.S. Hourly Climate Normals for 1991 to 2020 provides hourly meteorological parameters for hundreds of U.S. stations located across the 50 states, as well as U.S. Territories and Commonwealths, and the Compact of Free Association nations. These stations are now largely automated, and are usually part of the Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) or Automated Weather Observing System (AWOS). The hourly normals include temperature, dew point, heat index, wind chill, wind, cloudiness, heating and cooling degree hours, pressure normals, and other statistics of these variables. Users can access the data either by product or by station. All data utilized in the computation of the 1991-2020 Climate Normals were taken from the Integrated Surface Dataset (ISD) Lite (a subset of NCEI's Integrated Surface Dataset). These source datasets (including intermediate datasets used in the computation of products) are also archived at the NOAA NCEI.
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NCEI Dataset Landing Page
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NCEI Product Information Page
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NCEI Direct Download (Dataset Files)
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NCEI Common Access
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Normals Hourly Documentation 1991-2020
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Normals Calculation Methodology 2020
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Readme By-Variable By-Station Normals Files
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Normals Hourly 1991-2020 CSV Sample
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Registry of Open Data on AWS
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AWS S3 Explorer (Region: us-east-1)
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Azure Landing Page (Region: us-east)
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1981-2010 U.S. Hourly Normals
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NCEI web page for the U.S. Gridded Climate Normals
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NCEI web page for the 1981–2010 U.S. Climate Normals
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Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Keywords
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GCOS Essential Climate Variables
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| identifier | gov.noaa.ncdc:C01622 |
| isPartOf | 1981-2010 U.S. Hourly Normals |
| issued | 2021-05-04T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| keyword |
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"Earth Science > Climate Indicators",
"Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Temperature > Surface Temperature > Air Temperature",
"Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Winds > Surface Winds > Wind Direction",
"Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Winds > Surface Winds > Wind Speed",
"Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Temperature > Surface Temperature > Dew Point Temperature",
"Earth Science > Atmosphere > Clouds > Cloud Properties > Cloud Amount",
"Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Pressure > Sea Level Pressure",
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"Atmospheric - Surface - Wind Speed and Direction",
"Atmospheric - Surface - Water Vapour - Dew Point",
"Atmospheric - Upper-air - Cloud Properties",
"Atmospheric - Surface - Air Pressure",
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"Ocean > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean",
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| license | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| modified | 2021-05-04T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
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| temporal | 1991-01-01T00:00:00+00:00/2020-12-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
| title | U.S. Climate Normals 2020: U.S. Hourly Climate Normals (1991-2020) |
