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Summary

The Climate Source is the exclusive distributor of spatial climate
data sets developed by the PRISM climate mapping program at Oregon
State University's Spatial Climate Analysis Service (SCAS).

Climate data for the lower 48 states are available: a full suite of 38
climate elements, including 1961-90 mean monthly and annual
precipitation; temperature; humidity; freeze dates; growing, heating
and cooling degree-days; precipitation and temperature extremes; and
many snowfall statistics. Data are available in a variety of formats
to be compatible ESRI's ARC-INFO and ArcView, MapInfo, Intergraph's
GeoMedia, and public domain GRASS.

See: http://www.climatesource.com/ for more details.

Geographic Coverage Spatial coordinates   

N: 50.02

S: 24.06

E: -65.98

W: -126.02

Data Set Citation

Dataset Creator: Chris Daly and George Taylor Dataset Title: United States Average Monthly or Annual Climate Data, 1961-1990 Dataset Release Date: 2000 Dataset Release Place: Portland, OR Dataset Publisher: Oregon State University Online Resource: http://www.climatesource.com/

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1961-01-01 Stop Date: 2000-12-31

Location Keywords

CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Data Resolution

Latitude Resolution: 2km Longitude Resolution: 2km Temporal Resolution: monthly, annual, climatological

Science Keywords

ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > SNOW > SNOWFALL ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > RAIN ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > HUMIDITY ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > DEGREE DAYS ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > MAXIMUM/MINIMUM TEMPERATURE ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

Project

PRISM/OCS > Parameter-elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes

Ancillary Keywords

extreme temperatures hot/cold days freeze dates climatology extreme precipitation

Data Set Progress

IN WORK

Originating Center

OSU

Data Center

The Climate Source, Inc. Data Center URL: http://www.climatesource.com/ Data Center Personnel Name: DANNY SHAPIRO Phone: 512-693-9007 Email: sales at climatesource.com Contact Address: The Climate Source 946 NW Circle Blvd #222 City: Corvallis Province or State: Oregon Postal Code: 97330-1410 Country: USA

Distribution

Distribution Media: CD-ROM Distribution Size: varies Distribution Format: ASCII, ARC/INFO Fees: See web site for details

Personnel

CHRIS DALY Role: INVESTIGATOR Email: daly at nacse.org Contact Address: Director, PRISM Group Northwest Alliance for Computational Science & Engineering (NACSE) 2000 Kelley Engineering Center City: Corvallis Province or State: OR Postal Code: 97331-5501 Country: USA GEORGE H. TAYLOR Role: INVESTIGATOR Phone: (541) 737-5705 Fax: (541) 737-5710 Email: taylor at coas.oregonstate.edu Contact Address: Oregon State University Oregon Climate Service Strand Agriculture Hall, Room 316 City: CORVALLIS Province or State: OR Postal Code: 97331-2209 Country: USA

Related URL

Link: GET DATA Description: The Climate Source list of climate data products Link: VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE Description: Oregaon State University PRISM Home Page

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2002-05-23 Last DIF Revision Date: 2004-06-24

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