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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA Monthly U.S. Climate Gridded Dataset (NClimGrid). Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-06-27. https://doi.org/10.3886/E233742V1

Project Description

Project Title:  View help for Project Title NOAA Monthly U.S. Climate Gridded Dataset (NClimGrid)
Summary:  View help for Summary The NOAA Monthly U.S. Climate Gridded Dataset (NClimGrid) consists of four climate variables derived from the GHCN-D dataset: maximum temperature, minimum temperature, average temperature and precipitation. Each file provides monthly values in a 5x5 lat/lon grid for the Continental United States. Data is available from 1895 to the present. In March 2015, new Alaska data was included in the nClimDiv dataset. The Alaska nClimDiv data were created and updated using similar methodology as that for the CONUS. It includes maximum temperature, minimum temperature, average temperature and precipitation. In January 2025, the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) began summarizing the State of the Climate for Hawaii. This was made possible through a collaboration between NCEI and the University of Hawaii/Hawaii Climate Data Portal and completes a long-standing gap in NCEI's ability to characterize the State of the Climate for all 50 states. NCEI maintains monthly statewide, divisional, and gridded average temperature, maximum temperatures (highs), minimum temperature (lows) and precipitation data for Hawaii over the period 1991-2025.

Cite as: Vose, Russell S., Applequist, Scott, Squires, Mike, Durre, Imke, Menne, Matthew J., Williams, Claude N. Jr., Fenimore, Chris, Gleason, Karin, and Arndt, Derek (2014): NOAA Monthly U.S. Climate Gridded Dataset (NClimGrid), Version 1. [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. DOI:10.7289/V5SX6B56 [access date].


Scope of Project

Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Spatial Bounding Box Coordinates: West: 172.0 East: -65.0 South: 18.0 North: 72.0
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1/1/1895 – 6/5/2025 (time interval: 1-month)


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