The Global Climatology Network Precipitation data [electronic resource].

Published:: Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 1993.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
Physical Description:: 7 pages : digital, PDF file
Additional Creators:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States. Department of Energy, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information

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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).

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E 1.99:conf-9309223--1
conf-9309223--1

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Published through SciTech Connect.
08/01/1993.
"conf-9309223--1"
"DE93019199"
Symposium on precipitation and evaporation,Bratislava (Slovakia),20-24 Sep 1993.
Peterson, T.C.; Easterling, D.R.; Vose, R.S.; Eischeid, J.K.

Funding Information:

AC05-84OR21400
AI05-90OR21956
AI05-90ER60952

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