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Climate Division Plots

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How to read file used in plot.

How to reference plots

RSS: Dataset updates (Info)

Climate Division Information

NCDC's Climate Division Webpage. Includes references and related docuentation.

Data caveats,

Get climate division boundaries.

Get stations that went into division data (from NCDC's ftp server).

Divisional Areas and other useful files from NCDC.

US Map with list of map climate divisions and individual state maps of the climate divisions (with counties).

Get State averaged temperature and precipitation climatologies.

Related Pages

Atmospheric and Ocean Time series (SOI, PNA, etc.).

Get timeseries from climate division dataset and other datasets.

Plot maps and time series at one climate division (from NCDC). Choose "map interface to selected online data". Under select products, choose "divisional data".

 

US Climate Division Dataset Mapping Page

Note: There will be an upcoming change in the dataset. See information at NCDC climate division webpage..
Data Notes and caveats

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(Latest date of data at NCDC: May 15, 2013)

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Variable? Precipitation Palmer Drought Severity Index Temperature

Type of plot? Average Anomaly Average Standardized Anomaly Mean Rank (Relative to 1895-Present) Percentile (Relative to 1895-Present)

Anomaly: Choose base period. 1950-1995 1961-1990 1971-2000 1981-2010 1895-2000 1950-2007

Beginning month of season Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Ending month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Enter 4 DIGIT Year(s). Valid range is January 1895 to Apr 2013 . For seasons that span a year (e.g. DJF), please enter year of the first month. Default is current year. OR Enter a range of years

Optional: Contour Interval Low: Hi: Contour Interval:(You must input all 3 options.)

Units: English (inches/F) Metric(cm/C)

Optional: Scale Plot Size(1-200% ; Default 100%)

White for central values for anomalies/percentiles? Yes No

Flip color table? No Yes

(Report Bugs)

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Dataset is obtained from the National Climatic Data Center

It is provisional and may be subject to correction by NCDC at a later date!

Correlate atmosphere ocean timeseries with climate division data.