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Monthly Summaries of the Global Historical Climatology Network - Daily (GHCN-D)

Published by DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Catalog Last Checked: August 03, 2026 at 06:38 AM | Dataset Last Updated: December 21, 2006 at 12:00 AM
Monthly Summaries of Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN)-Daily is a dataset derived from GHCN-Daily. The data are produced by computing simple averages or monthly accumulations of the daily observations. The meteorological elements calculated for the data set include, but are not limited to: monthly maximum and minimum temperature, monthly precipitation (i.e., rainfall and snow water equivalent), snowfall and snow depth. Users of these monthly summaries have access to simple meteorological summaries for tens of thousands of stations worldwide.

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  • NCEI Dataset Landing Page

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  • NCEI Climate Data Online Data Search

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  • NCEI Climate Data Online Map Server

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  • NCEI ArcGIS REST Services Directory

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  • KMZ file for dataset

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  • NCEI Dataset Documentation

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  • GHCN-D Monthly Summary PDF Sample

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  • GHCN-D Monthly Summary CSV Sample

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  • GHCN-D Monthly Summary fixed-length ASCII Sample

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  • Global Historical Climatology Network - Daily (GHCN-Daily), Version 3 Landing Page

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  • Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Keywords

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  • NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)

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issued 2006-12-21T00:00:00.000+00:00
keyword 
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  "Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Temperature > Surface Temperature > Maximum/Minimum Temperature",
  "Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Temperature > Surface Temperature > Air Temperature",
  "Earth Science > Atmosphere > Precipitation > Precipitation Amount",
  "Earth Science > Atmosphere > Precipitation > Solid Precipitation > Snow",
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modified 2006-12-21T00:00:00.000+00:00
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temporal 1880-01-01T00:00:00+00:00/1880-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
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title Monthly Summaries of the Global Historical Climatology Network - Daily (GHCN-D)

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