17 Weather data p2 (Meteorology: Sources of CD-ROMs)
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This article is from the Meteorology FAQ, by Tom Berg hcane@mobile.gulf.net with numerous contributions by others.
17 Weather data p2 (Meteorology: Sources of CD-ROMs)
Global Historical Fields (GHF) Vers 1.0. ($120):
This version has no data for the Southern Hemisphere. This CD-ROM
allows users to view daily surface charts for the period 1899 through
April 1994. Daily upper air charts (700mb, 500mb, 300mb) are
available from the late 1940's through April 1994. Surface charts
contour sea level pressure only (not station plots); upper air charts
contour geopotential heights and temperatures. Charts can be
contoured, looped, and exported to a file or printer. Joint NCDC and
U.S. Navy product, DOS only.
Contact: National Climatic Data Center, see above.
U.S. Divisional and Station Climatic Data and Normals (USDS) v 1.0
($120):
This NCDC CD-ROM contains a collection of ASCII text data and
documentation files that pertain to the U.S climate normals and
by-products of the normals. Climatic variables include temperature,
precipitation, degree days, and Palmer Drought Indices. The current
normals period of 1961-1990 is covered with monthly values calculated
for approximately 6600 precipitation and 4700 temperature stations.
The earlier data/normals are provided for comparison and research
applications.
This CD-ROM contains no software or extraction routines that allow
users to import the data directly into spreadsheets or other
applications. Format and description of the files match NCDC magnetic
tape series TD-9640 and TD-9641.
Contact: National Climatic Data Center, see above.
NCDC Cooperative Station Data ($120 per volume, $1500 for complete
set):
21 volume CD-ROM set containing TD-3200 cooperative station data.
Major elements include daily high and low temperatures, daily
rainfall, daily snowfall and snow depth, and evaporation. General
period of record is 1948-1993, but longer for selected stations.
There are approximately 8000 active stations in the dataset.
Historically, approximately 23,000 stations are included for various
years. States are grouped geographically into volume numbers. The
set contains inventories, station histories, and
ASCII data files. Joint NCDC and ARL project.
Contact: National Climatic Data Center, see above.
Hourly Modeled Sounding Data. ($480, sold as set only):
This 12 volume CD-ROM set contains hourly 80 KM modeled gridpoint
U.S. sounding data for 1990. This data is the output from the Penn
State University MM4 model which used available daily sounding data
for 1990 as input. Wind, temperature, dewpoint depression, and
geopotential height data for 8 standard and 15 variable levels are
included in the NWS TTAA, TTBB format. Joint NCDC and ARL
product. Requires 544K of RAM, DOS only.
Contact: National Climatic Data Center, see above.
Meteosat Images on CD-ROM, 1986 to 1991 (price on request):
One full-disk infra-red image per day (usually at 12h00 UTC), one
visible image on day 1 of each month (at the same time as the
infra-red image), one water-vapour image on day 1 of each month of
1991 (at the same time as the infra-red and visible image). Images of
the snow storm over the East coast of the USA on 12&13 March 1993
(from meteosat-3 at 75 degrees East). Images of Kuwait during the
Gulf war. Full-disk Images taken by Meteosat-3 at 75 degrees East at
the beginning of March 1993.
Contact: J. Le Ber, Meteosat Data Service, European Space Agency,
Robert Bosch Str. 5, D6100 DARMSTADT GERMANY
High Resolution Climatology ($199/variable): *COMMERCIAL* (Floppy
disk)
Average monthly climatological values of maximum temperature, minimum
temperature, and precipitation for every 1 square km of the
conterminous US for the 30-year periods 1951-1980 and 1961-1990. The
data are stored as a rectangular matrix for each state. Digitized
state and county political boundaries are included and referenced to
the climate data sets. The data are in raster form as ASCII or 16-bit
binary integers. This dataset is distributed on 5.25" or 3.5" floppy
disks.
Contact: ZedX, Inc., P.O. Box 404, Boalsburg, PA 16827-0404.
814/466-2025.
US Summary of Day (4 disks, prices vary): *COMMERCIAL*
NCDC Summary of Day data, USGS streamflow data, retrieval and analysis
software.
Contact: Hydrosphere, Inc., 1002 Walnut, Suite 200, Boulder, CO 80302
800/949-4937, 303/443-7839
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