A Gridded Hourly Precipitation Data Base for the United States

The Climate Prediction Center at NCEP compiled a multi-year gridded hourly precipitation data set over the United States. One of the main goals of the project was to produce a manageable research-quality data set suitable for studies of precipitation variability on timescales ranging from diurnal to interannual. This data set was derived from the hourly observations of approximately 2500 U.S. stations. The observations were gridded, using a modified Cressman scheme, into 2-degree latitude by 2.5-degree longitude boxes.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1963
    End:  1994

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1963
Temporal Range End 1994
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 60
Bounding Box South Lat 20
Bounding Box West Long -140
Bounding Box East Long -60
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links

Related Resource #1 : NCEP/CPC Historical United States Daily Precipitation Analysis
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format Binary
Standardized Resource Format Binary
Asset Size 808.00 MB
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Resource Support Name Bob Dattore
Resource Support Email dattore@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive
Distributor NCAR Research Data Archive
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Metadata Contact Email rdahelp@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization NCAR Research Data Archive

Author Higgins, R. Wayne
Janowiak, John E.
Yao, Yu-Ping
Publisher Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory
Publication Date 1996-06-14
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/P6BM-VM62
Alternate Identifier d507000
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2024-08-04T02:11:09Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.rda::d507000
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Higgins, R. Wayne, Janowiak, John E., Yao, Yu-Ping. (1996). A Gridded Hourly Precipitation Data Base for the United States. Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/P6BM-VM62. Accessed 28 January 2025.

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