NCEP/EMC U.S. Gage Only Daily Precipitation Data

The Environmental Modeling Center (EMC), a component of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) acquires gage-based precipitation reports in near real-time from several thousand sites across the contiguous 48 states of the USA. There are approximately 5,800 daily rain gage reports per day out of a total available set of 9,000. These daily precipitation reports are collected by the 12 River Forecast Centers (RFC) and sent to NCEP. This dataset contains the NCEP Daily Precipitation Gage Data. This dataset is provided as is and was not quality controlled by NCAR/EOL (formerly UCAR/JOSS).

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1995-01-11T00:00:00Z
    End:  9999-12-31T23:59:59Z

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1995-01-11T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 9999-12-31T23:59:59Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 49.00000
Bounding Box South Lat 25.00000
Bounding Box West Long -125.00000
Bounding Box East Long -67.00000
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links

Documentation #1 : katz_gage_readme.txt

Documentation #2 : katz_missing_data.txt

21.009 : is a companion to dataset 21.005
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format Tabular/Columnar ASCII
Unix Compressed (.Z) Gridded Binary (GRIB) Format (application/x-compress)
GNU Zip (.gz) Format (application/x-gzip)
Standardized Resource Format ASCII
GRIB
Archive
Asset Size 2469 MB
Legal Constraints

none
Access Constraints none
Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name EOL Data Support
Resource Support Email datahelp@eol.ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory
Distributor UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory
Metadata Contact Name EOL Data Support
Metadata Contact Email datahelp@eol.ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory

Author Jun Du
Publisher UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory
Publication Date 2011-08-11T16:05:42
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.26023/Z8AQ-DBT0-4010
Alternate Identifier 21.005
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-03-10T21:33:10Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::21.005
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Jun Du. (2011). NCEP/EMC U.S. Gage Only Daily Precipitation Data. 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26023/Z8AQ-DBT0-4010. Accessed 13 March 2025.

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