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Climate Division Plots: Help; How to read file used in plot.; How to reference plots; RSS: Dataset updates (Info)
Climate Division Information: Get data and more info from NCDC.; Get climate division boundaries, 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".

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How to Reference Datasets and Plots

You can use the plots produced from this page in publications. We ask that you acknowledge the NOAA/ESRL Physical Sciences Division in the publication. For example,

"Image provided by the NOAA/ESRL Physical Sciences Division, Boulder Colorado from their Web site at http://www.psd.noaa.gov/".

You should also reference the NCDC Climate Division Dataset.

NCDC, 1994, Time Bias Corrected Divisional Temperature-Precipitation-Drought Index. Documentation for dataset TD-9640. Available from DBMB, NCDC, NOAA, Federal Building, 37 Battery Park Ave. Asheville, NC 28801-2733. 12pp.