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A complete list of all stations in the dataset,
including station number, station name, country/state ID, latitude,
longitude, and elevation for the NCDC global surface summary of
day data. This dataset is used in the Global GIS volumes to link
to an on-line dataset, which displays the NCDC data. Any data
that had NULL longitudes or latitudes were removed. The web link
will look like http://www.earthscienceworld.org/edata/gsod.html?station=<<stationid>>
NCDC Information:
Global surface summary of day data is produced by the National
Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in Asheville, NC. The hourly data
used in building these daily summaries are obtained from the USAF
Climatology Center, located in the Federal Climate Complex with
NCDC. The latest week of the daily summary data is placed on line
by NCDC for easy access and download by outside users, and is
normally available about 4 days after the end of the data week.
The on line data files begin with January 1994.
About 8000 stations' data are typically included in the dataset.
They are accessible through our WWW server (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/)
or through direct ftp connection. Other periods of the summary
of day data (up to 20 years or more) can be obtained off-line
from NCDC. Also, the data can be displayed in graphical form using
the visualization software on our WWW server. This allows the
user to select the country and station(s) of interest, and quickly
display the element(s) chosen.
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