One of the missions that NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), or formerly the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), undertakes is the summarization and compilation of a variety of climate statistics from their archive of weather data that have been submitted to the Center from the national network of weather stations. These summaries are then disseminated, providing the public with information about the climate of the nation, whether on a local, state or regional level. NCDC produces several series identified under the title "The Climatography of the United States." Literally, climatography represents a quantitative description of climate that usually involve development of tables and charts that portray the characteristic values of selected climatic elements at a station or over an area. Some of these climatographies provide a variety of daily, monthly and annual normal climate data for agricultural, transportation and other interests.
NOTE: -- According to NCDC, new normals for the basic climate elements (temperature and precipitation) covering the new 1981-2010 interval became available in July 2011. However, these normals have not been provided in files that have user friendly format. Climographs or graphs of the 1981-2010 climate normal data for individual stations are available. Instructions are provided along with a direct link to the data tools.
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Prepared by Edward J. Hopkins, Ph.D., email hopkins@meteor.wisc.edu
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