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Obtain file of Boulder daily data
Filse contains Boulder daily maximum and minimum temperature, precipitation, snowfall and snow cover data and can be read with the fortran code segment below or any other way that is convenient. New file has documentation at the bottom and a line at the top that should be read in.
do i=1,number_of_days
read(iunit,900)iyear,month, iday, imax_temp, imin_temp, precip, snowfall, snowdepth
900 format(1x,i4,1x,i2,1x,i2,i7,i7,f8.2,f8.1,i7)
enddo
- Temperatures are in degrees Fahrenheit and snow and precipitation are in inches.
- Missing values are indicated by -998.0.
- Trace values (less than 1/10 for snow and 1/100 for rain) are indicated by -999.0.
- First data file (old one) starts on August 1 1948.
- Second starts in 1897 though snow doesn't start until August 1948.
Files are usually updated through the last full month. The 1948 onward file will be removed at some point. Please switch to other one when you can. Email me if file is significantly behind (>2 months).
Get file with Boulder data from 1897 about 2M
Get old file with Boulder data from 1948 about 1M
For help in reading the file, please contact Cathy Smith through email at cathy.smith@noaa.gov or at 303-497-6263.
If you are going to use the data in any published document, we would appreciate it if you acknowledged NOAA ESRL/PSD as the source of the data.