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Climate Division Plots

Help

Data Notes and caveats

How to read file used in plot.

How to reference plots

RSS: Dataset updates (Info)

Climate Division Information

NCDC's Climate Division Webpage. Includes references and related documentation.

Data caveats,

Get climate division boundaries.

Get stations that went into division data (from NCDC's ftp server).

Divisional Areas and other useful files from NCDC.

US Map with list of map climate divisions and individual state maps of the climate divisions (with counties).

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 maps and time series at one climate division (from NCDC). Choose "map interface to selected online data". Under select products, choose "divisional data".

 

NOAA/NCEI Climate Division data:
Mapping and Analysis Web Tool

• As of Apr 2014, this dataset has been transitioned from an older version at NCEI.
  For more information see the NOAA/NCEI climate division transition webpage. The old dataset version can be plotted here for comparison. NCEI will not be updating that version of the dataset.

Latest date of data update at PSD: Jan 12, 2017

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Variable? Precipitation Palmer Drought Severity Index Temperature Tmax Tmin Heating Degree Days Cooling Degree Days

Type of plot? Average Anomaly Average Standardized Anomaly Mean Rank (Relative to 1895-Present) Percentile (Relative to 1895-Present)

Anomaly: Choose base period. 1950-1995 1951-2010 1961-1990 1971-2000 1981-2010 1895-2000 1950-2007

Beginning month of season Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Ending month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Enter 4 DIGIT Year(s). Valid range is January 1895 to Dec 2016 . For seasons that span a year (e.g. DJF), please enter year of the first month. Default is current year. OR Enter a range of years

Optional: Contour Interval Low: Hi: Contour Interval:(You must input all 3 options.)

Units: English (inches/F) Metric(cm/C)

Optional: Scale Plot Size(1-200% ; Default 100%)

White for central values for anomalies/percentiles? Yes No

Flip color table? No Yes

(Report Bugs)

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Dataset is obtained from National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)

It is provisional and may be subject to correction by NCEI at a later date!

Correlate atmosphere ocean timeseries with climate division data. Index time series start in 1948 or after.
Beta version of correlation page calculates correlations from 1895. Tmax,Tmin, Heating Degree Days (HDD), and Cooling Degree Days (CDD) variables are also available.