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Display and Analysis of Weather Data from NCDC Using ArcGIS
Track: Climate, Weather and Atmosphere
Author(s): Helen Cox, Stephen Krug

This project describes the application of ArcGIS to the mapping of weather and climate data. Historical daily climate data for the U.S. have been obtained from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climate Data Center, including data from individual cooperative stations dating back to the late 1800s. These data include precipitation, snowfall, and minimum and maximum temperature. For some stations more attributes are available. Station locations have been mapped into ArcGIS shapefiles for display in ArcMap. A menu-driven interface has been programmed within the GIS system to retrieve data for individual and selected stations. Data averaged over a month, a season or a year can be selected, as well as data averaged over many (user-specified) years. In addition single daily records of data can be selected. These data are brought into ArcMap as a shapefile for display, interpolation, and gridding to produce weather and climate maps.

Helen Cox
California State University, Northridge
Geography
18111 Nordhoff St
Northridge , CA 91330-8249
US
Phone: 8186773512
E-mail: helen.m.cox@csun.edu

Stephen Krug
California State University, Northridge
Geography
18111 Nordhoff St
Northridge , CA 91330
US
Phone: 626-827-1701
E-mail: slk10130@csun.edu