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These CD-ROMs contain ASCII data files and associated station history files for the Cooperative Summary of the Day (DS3200) data set. Recently updated through 2006, this data set is a compilation of daily observations from more than 20,000 cooperative weather stations in the United States, U.S. Caribbean Islands, U.S. Pacific Islands, and Puerto Rico. It includes air and soil temperatures, rainfall, snowfall, and evaporation elements. A map interface is available on the Eastern, Central and Western Disks. The period of record on these disks vary among stations but falls within the period from the 1850s through 2001. The Update Disk contains compressed files for 2002-2006 and also includes DS 3210 data which comprises just the "first-order" National Weather Service sites (the same stations are also in DS 3200), but also includes some additional data elements that are not reported by Cooperative stations. The files are in the raw, archive format without any software for conversion to a spreadsheet ready format.
NOTE: This product was developed for a Windows environment; MacIntosh and Unix versions are not available.
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