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U.S. Climate Normals Product Suite (1981-2010)


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            title:  U.S. Climate Normals Product Suite (1981-2010)
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        abstract:  The NOAA Climate Normals are a large suite of data products that provide users with many tools to understand typical climate conditions for thousands of locations across the United States, including the 30-year normals, 5, 10, 15, 20-year normals, agricultural normals, and others. For nearly 100 years, the 30-year NOAA Climate Normals have been a premier NOAA product of 30-year-averages of meteorological parameters. The 1981-2010 Climate Normals Product Suite has been expanded to meet more user needs and requirements spanning many different industries, including agriculture, heating and cooling, construction, and others. To ensure both quality and completeness, hundreds of NWS stations meeting stringent criteria are used, including those from NWS's Cooperative Observer Program (COOP) Network, some additional stations are included in the Supplemental Climate Normals for 1981-2010.
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                    beginPosition:  1981-01-01
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        supplementalInformation:  Includes Supplemental Normals released 2012-10-15
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                fees:  In most cases, electronic downloads of the data are free. However, fees may apply for custom orders, data certifications, copies of analog materials, and data distribution on physical media.
                orderingInstructions:  Contact NCEI for other distribution options and instructions.
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                    name:  Supplemental Climate Normals
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                    description:  README describing the 1981-2010 Climate Normals.
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            statement:  NOAA's 1981-2010 Climate Normals are the newest iteration of the U.S. Climate Normals. Though previous versions of the normals are still available from the archive, the 1981-2010 Climate Normals should be used for all current applications. Computation of the NOAA Climate Normals is in accordance with the recommendation of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), of which the United States is a member. While the WMO mandates each member nation to compute 30-year averages of meteorological quantities at least every 30 years (1931 - 1960, 1961 - 1990, 1991 - 2020, etc.), the WMO recommends a decadal update, in part to incorporate newer weather stations. Further, the NOAA NCDC has a responsibility to fulfill the mandate of Congress "... to establish and record the climatic conditions of the United States." This responsibility stems from a provision of the Organic Act of October 1, 1890, which established the Weather Bureau as a civilian agency (15 U.S.C. 311).
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                        description:  See Algorithm Citation
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                            title:  Temperature Methodology
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                description:  2011-07-01 - 1981-2010 Climate Normals released.
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                description:  2011-09-01 - Precipitation values for 30-year Climate Normals replaced. For more information, please refer to documentation.
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                  DateTime:  2011-09-01T00:00:00
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                description:  2012-08-04 - Service Pack 1 for 30-year Climate Normals released. For more information, please refer to documentation.
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                  DateTime:  2012-08-04T00:00:00
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                description:  2013-01-02 - Agricultural Supplemental Climate Normals released. This includes growing degree days, probabilities of first and last frost and freeze events, probabilities of occurrence of minimum temperature thresholds, and growing season length probabilities. For more information, please refer to documentation.
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                  DateTime:  2013-01-02T00:00:00
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                description:  2015-08-17 - 30-year Hourly Normals replaced and two new Supplemental products released: the 10-year Hourly Normals and the Air Freezing Index Product. For more information, please refer to documentation.
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                  DateTime:  2015-08-17T00:00:00
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                description:  2015-08-21 - Service Pack 2 for the 30-year Climate Normals released. For more information, please refer to documentation.
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                  DateTime:  2015-08-21T00:00:00
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                description:  ISD-Lite is a subset of the Integrated Surface Dataset, available at NCDC. Read here for more information about the full ISD dataset - http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/isd
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                description:  The Global Historical Climatology Network - Daily (GHCN-Daily) dataset. For more information about the GHCN-D dataset, please read here - http://doi.org/10.7289/V5D21VHZ
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                    title:  Global Historical Climatology Network - Daily (GHCN-Daily), Version 3
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                description:  In addition to standalone products such as GHCN-D and ISD-Lite, interim datasets were produced during the generation of the Climate Normals. For convenience, these interim data collections are available. Please review documentation for more information.
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                                name:  All Source Datasets for NCEI Climate Normals
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                description:  NOAA created the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) by merging NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), and National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), including the National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC), per the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015, Public Law 113-235. NCEI launched publicly on April 22, 2015.
                dateTime:
                  DateTime:  2015-04-22T00:00:00
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        maintenanceNote:  Bulk metadata change applied on 2023-06-23. See version control repository history for metadata change details.
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