NOAA Climate Reference Network (NOAACRN)
Information updated on September 13, 2007, 4:23 pm GMT
General Data Description
The U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) is a network of climate stations that is being developed as part of a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) initiative. The first station was installed in Nov 2000 and as of the end of Sept 2007, 113 stations have been installed (112 in the United States and 1 in Canada. For future station information, see CRN's latest newsletter). Its primary goal is to provide future long-term homogeneous observations of temperature and precipitation that can be coupled to long-term historical observations for the detection and attribution of present and future climate change. This data stream provides data from the station located at Barrow, Alaska and from two stations at Stillwater, OK.
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- 60noaacrn - NOAA Climate Reference Network data-precipitation and temperature
netCDF File Header Description (Data Object Design File)
Measurement Description
See USCRN documentation at
www.ncdc.noaa.gov/crn/elements.html
CRN provides their own qc values for Downwelling Shortwave Hemispheric Irradiance and for Surface Infra-Red Temperature.
The qc flags are as follows:
Click on a measurement to see how CRN derives each value.
- Surface air temperature average for last 5 minutes of previous hour, C
- Total amount of precipitation recorded during the previous hour, mm/hr
- Downwelling Shortwave Hemispheric Irradiance, Pyranometer, W/m^2
- Surface Infra-Red Temperature, K
CRN provides their own qc values for Downwelling Shortwave Hemispheric Irradiance and for Surface Infra-Red Temperature.
The qc flags are as follows:
- 0 means good
- 2 means suspect
- 3 means erroneous
Temporal Coverage
For Barrow, AK:
The data began on 2002-08-09.
The data began on 2002-08-09.
For Stillwater, OK:
The data began on 2002-03-12.
The newest data are available with a 3 day delay.
Area Covered
Currently data are only available for the Barrow, Alaska site and two stations
at Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Data Stream Inputs
nsa60noaacrnX1.00
A sample input file and record sample can be found here at
nsa60noaacrnX1.00
sgp60noaacrnX1.00
A sample input file and record sample can be found here at sgp60noaacrnX1.00
Notification Form Link
Related Links
Contacts
- ARM Mentor Michael Ritsche
- ARM Software Developer Alison Tilp
Data Source
- Institution National Climatic Data Center
Acronyms
| NCDC | National Climatic Data Center |
| NOAA | National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration |
| CRN | Climate Reference Network |
