

OBS-TIME = 4-character time of observation in hour-minute format (i.e.DATA VALUE = 5 character data value for ELEMENT.ELEMENT = 4 character indicator of element type.YEAR/MONTH/DAY = 8 character date in YYYYMMDD format (e.g.Please see ghcnd-stations section below for an explantation ID = 11 character station identification code.The yearly files are formatted so that every observation is represented by a single row with the following fields: If you use the AWS Command Line Interface, you can access the bucket with this command: For example to access the uncompressed data for 1788 append 1788.csv to the bucket URL: The uncompressed versions of the files can be accessed by using a slightly different URL and a filename ending with CSV. For example to access the gziped version of the data for 1788 append to the bucket URL:

csv.gzip files, so any particular year will be named yyyy.csv and. The data are available in CSV file format and as. The directory is structured by year from 1763 to present, with each file named after the respective year. The GHCH-D data are stored in the noaa-ghcn-pds bucket: : The ghcnd-inventory file contains the periods of record for each station and element.: The ghcnd-stations file contains summary information for over 160000 stations used to create this dataset.This document refers to two other files, ghcnd-stations.txt and ghcnd-inventory.txt, which are also stored in the noaa-ghcn-pds S3 bucket. The files are updated daily on AWS to be in sync with updates to the GHCN-Daily dataset at NOAA. Cooperative Observer data come from the station history archived in NCDC’s Historical Observing Metadata Repository (HOMR).
#GSN FILE TIME PLUS#
In this archive, the period of record station files are parsed into yearly files that contain all available GHCN-Daily station data for that year plus a time of observation field (where available-primarily for U.S. Precipitation (i.e., rain, melted snow).
#GSN FILE TIME ARCHIVE#
The archive includes the following meteorological elements: GHCN-Daily is a composite of climate records from numerous sources that were merged together and subjected to a common suite of quality assurance reviews (Durre et al., 2010). It contains station-based measurements from land-based stations worldwide, about two thirds of which are for precipitation measurements only (Menne et al., 2012). GHCN-Daily is a dataset that contains daily observations over global land areas. NOAA Global Historical Climatology Network Daily (GHCN-D)
