Numeric Data Packages Updated
Annual and Seasonal Global Temperature Anomalies in the Troposphere and Low Stratosphere, 1958-1996 (NDP-008/R4) (http://cdiac.ornl.gov/ndps/ndp008.html)
J. K. Angell of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Air Resources Laboratory has used surface temperatures and thickness-derived temperatures from a global network of 63 radiosonde stations to estimate annual and seasonal temperature anomalies over the globe and several zonal regions from 1958 through 1996. These estimates are calculated relative to a 1958-1977 reference period mean and pertain to the surface and the following atmospheric layers: troposphere (850-300 mb), tropopause (300-100 mb), low stratosphere (100-50 and 100-30 mb), and from the surface up to 100 mb.
Individual data sets containing the above measurements are provided for the globe, the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, and the following latitudinal zones: North (60-90°N) and South (60-90°S) Polar; North (30-60°N) and South (30-60°S) Temperate; North (10-30°N) and South (10-30°S) Subtropical; Tropical (30°N-30°S); and Equatorial (10°N-10°S).
Two Long-Term Instrumental Climatic Data Bases of the People's Republic of China (NDP-039) (http://cdiac.ornl.gov/epubs/ndp/ndp039/ndp039.html)
Two long-term instrumental databases containing meteorological observations from the People's Republic of China (PRC) are presented in this NDP. The first version of this database extended through 1988 and was made available in 1991 as NDP-039. This update includes data through 1993. These data sets were compiled in accordance with a joint research agreement signed by the U.S. Department of Energy and the PRC Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on August 19, 1987. CAS has provided records from 270 stations, partitioned into two networks of 65 and 205 stations. The 65-station-network data contain monthly means, extremes, or totals of pressure, air temperature, precipitation amount, relative humidity, sunshine duration, cloud amount, dominant wind direction and frequency, wind speed, and number of days with snow cover. Station histories are available from 59 of the 65 stations. The 205-station-network data contain monthly mean temperatures and monthly precipitation totals; however, station histories are not currently available. Sixteen stations from these data sets (13 from the 65-station, 3 from the 205-station) have temperature and/or precipitation records beginning before 1900, whereas the remaining stations began observing in the early to mid-1900s.
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