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Climate Division Plots: Help; How to read file used in plot.; How to reference plots; RSS: Dataset updates (Info)
Climate Division Information: Get data and more info from NCDC.; Get climate division boundaries, Divisional Areas and other useful files from NCDC.; US Map with list of all climate divisions and individual state maps of the climate divisions.; Get State averaged temperature and precipitation climatologies.
Related Pages: Atmospheric and Ocean Time series (SOI, PNA, etc.).; Get timeseries from climate division dataset and other datasets.; Plot time series at one climate division (from NCDC)

Get climate division boundaries and other useful files.

For climate division boundaries by state, see ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/divboundaries/. The file boundary.dos has the readme. There is also a file that lists which division a county is in as county.dat. Also see the subdirectory gis. That directory has files center points for each division (readme.txt) . It also has GIS usable files with the boundaries.

Physical Sciences Division

Get climate division boundaries and other useful files.