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Downloading Weather Observations
United States: National Climatic Data Center Free access from government and educational domains. Some fees apply for access from other domains. No fee if you download data on campus.
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To get a single station’s data (US Stations Only):
Data Section digital ASCII files Daily Surface Data Your request will set up a query on the NCDC database system. You’ll get an when the dataset is ready (for small datasets when NCDC is not busy this will be within seconds).
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Email will contain several links:
1. Web Form
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Email will contain several links:
2. CSV ASCII data
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Email will contain several links:
3. Station Summary File 4. Summary of Data Availability
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Downloading WMO Data The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Maintains a continually updated, consistently formatted database of global observations, the Global Summary of the Day(GSOD) Available from the NCDC website, here:
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Downloading WMO Data
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Downloading WMO Data
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Downloading WMO Data
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WMO Alternative: FTP Access
ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/gsod/ Station ID numbers, names, Lat, Lon, elevation in file ish-history.txt Individual station files (zipped text format) organized in folders by year, filename given by station ID number.
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Be Careful! Read the Dataset Documentation Check Units
Check for Missing Data Observations available (eg. TMAX, Precip) vary among station
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