IASOA

These files are from the National Climatic Data Center's Integrated Surface Hourly Data. Documentation is available from UCAR CISL Research Data Archive.

This data set is distributed through IASOA under WMO resolution 40. 

File Information:

Meta data information is in the Readme file.

If there is more than one column of data, that means there is more than one observation location at this site.  Files are compressed in bzip2 format.  7-zip or gnu bzip2 should uncompress the text files.   We recommend using wget (unix and windows) to download multiple files.

File header example

First three lines of each file are meta data information.

YEAR USAF   WBAN  STATION NAME                  CTRY  ST CALL  LAT    LON     ELEV(.1M)
1950 710820 99999 ALERT                         CN CA NT CWLT  +82517 -062283 +00660
FORMAT: %12s %5s %1s %5s %1s %5s %1s %5s %1s, yyyymmddhh, temperature, temperature qc, dew point temperature, dew point temperature qc, sea level pressure, sea level qc, station level pressure, station level pressure qc

Recommended acknowledgment for this dataset: "The data for this study are from the Research Data Archive (RDA) which is maintained by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). NCAR is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The original data are available from the RDA (http://dss.ucar.edu) in dataset number ds463.3."  

List of station IDs