Climate Prediction Center (CPC) Global Land Surface Air Temperature Analysis

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Resource Abstract:
A station observation-based global land monthly mean surface air temperature dataset at 0.5 0.5 latitude-longitude resolution for the period from 1948 to the present . It uses a combination of two large individual data sets of station observations collected from the Global Historical Climatology Network version 2 and the Climate Anomaly Monitoring System (GHCN + CAMS), so it can be regularly updated in near real time with plenty of stations and (2) some unique interpolation methods, such as the anomaly interpolation approach with spatially-temporally varying temperature lapse rates derived from the observation-based Reanalysis for topographic adjustment.
Citation
Title Climate Prediction Center (CPC) Global Land Surface Air Temperature Analysis
lastUpdate  Date   2016-05-01
Keywords:
Theme keywords (theme):
Monthly mean of surface temperature
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Title Variables
revision  Date   2013-02-05
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Resource language:  eng; USA
Resource progress code:  ongoing
Resource extent
Temporal Extent
1948-01-01 2016-05-01
Additional information on resource:
Fan, Y., and H. van den Dool (2008), A global monthly land surface air temperature analysis for 1948-present, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D01103, doi:10.1029/2007JD008470.
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Resource distribution information

Distributor
distributor contact - custodian
position Name PSD/ESRL/NOAA Data Curator
Contact information
Address
electronic Mail Address webmaster.psd@noaa.gov
Format
Format name NETCDF4_CLASSIC
Format version NETCDF4_CLASSIC
Digital Transfer Options
Linkage for online resource
name Cite URL
URL: GHCN CAMS
link function information
Description Information about the dataset
Digital Transfer Options
Linkage for online resource
name Thredds Server
URL: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/thredds/catalog/Datasets/ghcncams//catalog.html
link function download
Description Thredds Data server. Allows http, opendap, and possibly WCS and WMS downaloads.
Digital Transfer Options
Linkage for online resource
name FTP server
URL: ftp://ftp.cdc.noaa.gov/Datasets/ghcncams/
link function download
Description FTP server.

Metadata data stamp:  2016-05-01
Metadata contact - custodian
position Name PSD/ESRL/NOAA Data Curator
Contact information
Address
electronic Mail Address webmaster.psd@noaa.gov
Metadata scope code  dataset
Metadata hierarchy level name:  dataset
Metadata language  eng; USA
Metadata character set encoding:   utf8
Metadata standard for this record:  ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata Part 2 Extensions for imagery and gridded data
standard version:  ISO 19115-2:2009(E)
Metadata record identifier:  gov.noaa.esrl.psd.dataset.Climate_Prediction_Center_CPC_Global_Land_Surface_Air_Temperature_Analysis

Metadata record format is ISO19139-2 XML (MI_Metadata)