NOAA/CMDL World Climate Data, Global Historical Climatology Network for Alaska
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/106.ARCSS014

Summary
This data set contains mean monthly temperatures and total monthly
precipitation for stations in Alaska from the mid-1800s to 1990. The values
are a subset of the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN), archived at
Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 106.ARCSS014
 * doi:10.5065/D6DF6PCM
   https://doi.org/10.5065/D6DF6PCM

Versions
  1.0

Citation
 Eischeid, J. 2009. NOAA/CMDL World Climate Data, Global Historical
 Climatology Network for Alaska. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing
 Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/D6DF6PCM Accessed 15 May 2025.

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Acknowledgement
In addition to the citation reference and any other acknowledgements,
please acknowledge NSF NCAR EOL in your publications with text such as:

  Data provided by NCAR EOL under the sponsorship of
  the National Science Foundation.
  https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

Related projects
 * ARCSS: NSF Arctic System Science
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/ARCSS

Additional information
 * Spatial Type: point
 * Frequency: monthly
 * Language: English

ISO Topic Categories
 * climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

Categories
 * Arctic
 * Meteorology
 * Precipitation
 * Surface

Platforms
 * Weather Stations

Instruments
 * Automated Weather System

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE

Documentation
 * readme.txt [3 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/41A874E58D7/readme.txt

Related links
 * info: ARCSS Data Policy
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/arctic_projects/arcss/Data_Policy.html
 * homepage: ARCSS EOL Webpage
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/arcss
 * download: NSF Arctic Data Center
   https://doi.org/10.5065/D6DF6PCM

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 1850-01-01 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 1990-12-31 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 75.00
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 53.00
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -177.00
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -130.00

Primary contact information
 * pointOfContact: Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN), NOAA <Russell.Vose@noaa.gov>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/751

Additional contact information
 * author: Jon K. Eischeid <Jon.K.Eischeid@noaa.gov>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1101
 * originator: Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN), NOAA <Russell.Vose@noaa.gov>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/751

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/106.ARCSS014?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/106.ARCSS014?format=isotc211