Overview: NCDC Station Metadata Reports

A number of standard reports are generated using the station history database. These reports provide a focused, coherent set of station details for various systems. A series of automated and manual QC checks help identify errors in the station information with such errors corrected prior to final release of the reports. The current production reports currently fall under these groups:

Master Station History Report

This is a list of basic, historical information for every station in the station history database.

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Publication Historical Report

This report pertains to the almost 9,000 NWS Cooperative Network sites whose observations are published in NCDC's Climatological Data or Hourly Precipitation Data publications.

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Significant Station Changes

The "SIG" report is a monthly listing of all significant changes that have been processed by the NCDC Station Metadata Team for the NWS Cooperative Network.

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Summary reports by network

Station lists containing basic information for various observing networks.

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