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The Global Climatology Network Precipitation data

Year: 1993

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Several years ago, in response to growing concern about global climate change, the US National Climatic Data Center and the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center undertook an effort to create a baseline global land surface climate data set called the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN, Vose et al., 1992). GHCN was created by merging several large existing climate data sets into one data base. Fifteen separate data sets went into the creation of the GHCN version 1.0. GHCN version 1.0 was released in 1992. It has 7,533 precipitation stations, but the number of stations varies with time. A slight majority (55%) have records in excess of 50 years, and a significant proportion (13%) have records in excess of 100 years. The longest period of record for any given station is 291 years (1697--1987 for Kew, United Kingdom).

Source: University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas)

Authors: T. C. Peterson, David R. Easterling, Russell S. Vose, Jon Eischeid

Language: English

Topic: Precipitation Measurement and Analysis

Subfield: Atmospheric Science

Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Climate action

Open Access status: green

Funders: U.S. Department of Energy, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Awards: G2988778103, G4792323

OpenAlex ID: W205953383

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