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NAME: LDM Surface METAR Hourly Data

Summary

The Surface METAR Data set is one of several surface data sets collected by the National Center for Atmospheric Research/ Earth Observing Laboratory (NCAR/EOL). Included in the data set are the global hourly surface meteorological observations in NCAR/EOL columnar ascii surface QC format. These data are contained in daily files which are compressed in gzip format (.gz). The data were aquired via the UNIDATA Local Data Manager (LDM).

Data access

ORDER data to made available for download

Additional information

Identifier	DOI: https://doi.org/10.26023/ZCSS-13AY-JF04
Data Quality	final
Versions	1.0 (2008-10-07)
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Related projects	NAME: North American Monsoon Experiment
Spatial Type	point
Frequency	hourly
Language	English
Categories	Land Based Surface
Platforms	Automated Surface Observing System - ASOS Automated Weather Observing System - AWOS Weather Stations
Instruments	Automated Weather System
GCMD Science Keywords	AIR TEMPERATURE CLOUD BASE HEIGHT DEW POINT TEMPERATURE DEW POINT TEMPERATURE HOURLY PRECIPITATION AMOUNT PRESENT WEATHER SEA LEVEL PRESSURE SURFACE PRESSURE VISIBILITY WIND DIRECTION WIND SPEED Show 8 more... Expand keywords
Documentation	LDM_SFC_METAR.html [3 KiB]
Related links	homepage: EOL NAME website info: NAME Data Policy info: NAME Missions

Temporal coverage

Begin datetime	2004-06-01 00:00:00
End datetime	2004-09-30 23:59:00

Spatial coverage

Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.

Maximum (North) Latitude: 50.00, Minimum (South) Latitude: 5.00
Minimum (West) Longitude: -125.00, Maximum (East) Longitude: -75.00

Primary point of contact information

Janine Aquino <janine@ucar.edu>

Additional contact information

author: EOL Data Support <datahelp@eol.ucar.edu>

Citation

NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory. 2008. NAME: LDM Surface METAR Hourly Data. Version 1.0. null. https://doi.org/10.26023/ZCSS-13AY-JF04. Accessed 06 Nov 2025.

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