Daily station precipitation data from the Global Historical Climatology Network daily data

Description

The daily station precipitation data from the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCNd) is an integrated database of daily climate summaries from land surface stations across the globe. It is comprised of daily climate records from numerous sources that have been integrated and subjected to a common suite of quality assurance reviews and contains records from over 100,000 stations in 180 countries and territories. This is an extract of the dataset description from the GHCN website where you can find more information on this data. 

Only the precipitation daily station data organised "by_year" were replicated on the NCI server. This is an alternate form of the GHCNd dataset. The period of record station files are parsed into yearly files that contain all available GHCNd station data for that year plus a time of observation field (where available). The original by_year files are updated daily to be in sync with updates to the GHCNd dataset.

More details on how the data is organised and its status are available from the documentation files stored with the data. For more information on methods and data quality assurance can be found here.

The data is downloaded from the NCDC NOAA ftp server.

For assistance with GHCN data on NCI, open a new issue at https://github.com/aus-ref-clim-data-nci/GHCN/issues

Local host (English)

Available at NCI as part of the Australian Community Reference Climate Data Collection at:

• /g/data/ia39/aus-ref-clim-data-nci/ghcn/data/daily/by_year

To join project:

• https://my.nci.org.au/mancini/login?next=/mancini/project/ia39

Can also be accessed via the collection intake catalogue: 

• https://github.com/aus-ref-clim-data-nci/acs-replica-intake

Access information (English)

Preferred citation:

Menne MJ, Durre I, Korzeniewski B, McNeal S, Thomas K, Yin X, Anthony S, Ray R, Vose RS, Gleason BE, and Houston TG (2012). Global Historical Climatology Network - Daily (GHCN-Daily), Version 3. [indicate subset used following decimal, e.g. Version 3.12]. NOAA National Climatic Data Center.http://doi.org/10.7289/V5D21VHZ [access date].

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