Abstract
 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 |
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