NCEP/CPC Gage Only Hourly Dataset
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/25.021

Summary
The Climate Prediction Center (CPC), a component of the National Centers for
Environmental Prediction (NCEP) acquires precipitation reports in near
real-time from several thousand sites across the contiguous 48 states of the
USA. Approximately 3000 automated, hourly rain gage observations are available
in the US via the GOES Data Collection Platform (DCP) administered by the NWS
Office of Hydrology (OH). These hourly reports are transmitted continuously
throughout the day to NCEP in a SHEF-encoded message. This dataset contains
the NCEP Hourly Precipitation Gage Data. This dataset is provided as is and
was not quality controlled by UCAR/JOSS.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 25.021
 * doi:10.26023/1XMF-FP0E-J601
   https://doi.org/10.26023/1XMF-FP0E-J601

Versions
  1.0

Citation
 Du, J. 2006. SGP97: NCEP/CPC Gage Only Hourly Dataset. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR
 - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26023/1XMF-FP0E-J601
 Accessed 19 Apr 2024.

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Acknowledgement
In addition to the citation reference and any other acknowledgements,
please acknowledge 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
 * SGP97: Southern Great Plains 1997 Hydrology Experiment
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/SGP97

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

Categories
 * Surface

Platforms
 * Weather Stations

Instruments
 * Rain Gauges

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT > HOURLY PRECIPITATION AMOUNT

Documentation
 * katz_gage_readme.txt [7 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/410782A7/katz_gage_readme.txt

Related links
 * homepage: SGP97 EOL Project Homepage
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/sgp97

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 1997-06-01 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 1997-07-31 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 50.00
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 28.00
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -115.00
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -80.00

Primary contact information
 * pointOfContact: Sidney Katz <sid.katz@noaa.gov>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/189

Additional contact information
 * author: Jun Du <jun.du@noaa.gov>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/2568

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/25.021?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/25.021?format=isotc211