Identification

Title

NCDC TD3505 Integrated Surface Hourly Data

Alternative title(s)

d463003

Abstract

This worldwide collection of surface weather observations is produced at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) from NCDC Surface Airway Hourly Observations (TD3280 [http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds470.0/]), U.S.A.F. DATSAV3 Surface Hourly Observations (TD9956 [http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds463.2/]), and NCDC Cooperative Hourly Precipitation (TD3240 [http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds505.0/]). Observations are all in the same ASCII format. Mandatory data includes pressure, temperature, dew-point, visibility, sky condition, and wind observation, but there may also be additional data, data remarks, or data element quality sections. The earliest data is for 1901. The earliest years have the least volume of data, a few hundred megabytes; the volume in the 1950s-early 1960s increased by a factor of 10-20; 1965-1972 shows a decrease because of a loss of data; beginning in 1973 with about 5 gigabytes of data, volume has gradually increased to about 20 gigabytes per year. There are now about 10,000 active stations.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d463003/

protocol: https

name: Dataset Description

description: Related Link

function: information

https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d463003/dataaccess/

protocol: https

name: Data Access

description: Related Link

function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

codeSpace

Dataset language

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

dataset

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2021-03-30

Keyword set

keyword value

WEATHER STATIONS > WEATHER STATIONS

FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS > FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS

GROUND STATIONS > GROUND STATIONS

METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS > METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2026-02-27

Keyword set

keyword value

AWDN > Automated Weather Data Network

GTS > Global Telecommunications System

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2026-02-27

Keyword set

keyword value

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SEA LEVEL PRESSURE

EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > WAVE HEIGHT

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS

EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > ICEBERGS

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD TYPES

EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SURFACE THERMAL PROPERTIES > SKIN TEMPERATURE

EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT

EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > SWELLS

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > MAXIMUM/MINIMUM TEMPERATURE

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD PROPERTIES > CLOUD HEIGHT

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > SOLID PRECIPITATION > HAIL

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > DEW POINT TEMPERATURE

EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > ICE GROWTH/MELT

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > SUNSHINE

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD PROPERTIES > CLOUD CEILING

EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > ICE GROWTH/MELT

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > AIR QUALITY > VISIBILITY

EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > SNOW DEPTH

EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > WAVE PERIOD

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD PROPERTIES > CLOUD FREQUENCY

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > SOLID PRECIPITATION > SNOW

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SURFACE PRESSURE

EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > SEA ICE AGE

EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > SEA ICE CONCENTRATION

EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ALTITUDE > GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > PRESSURE TENDENCY

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2026-02-27

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

East bounding longitude

North bounding latitude

South bounding latitude

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1901-01-01

End position

2011-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2005-01-05

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Limitations on public access

None

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

email address

datahelp@ucar.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange

email address

datahelp@ucar.edu

web address

https://gdex.ucar.edu

name: NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange

description: The Geoscience Data Exchange (GDEX), managed by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at NSF NCAR, contains a large collection of meteorological, atmospheric composition, and oceanographic observations, and operational and reanalysis model outputs, integrated with NSF NCAR High Performance Compute services to support atmospheric and geosciences research.

function: download

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2020-05-04T19:33:51Z

Metadata language