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Annual Mean Total Heating Degree Days, Arizona, 1961-1990
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Identification Information
- Citation
- Title
- Annual Mean Total Heating Degree Days, Arizona, 1961-1990
- Originator
- National Climatic Data Center (U.S.)
- Publisher
- National Climatic Data Center (U.S.)
- Publication Date
- 1994-01-01T:00:00:00
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- mapDigital
- Abstract
- This element was computed using data from the National Climatic Data Center's U.S. National 1961-1990 Climate Normals (NOAA, 1994b). The original data is in whole degrees Fahrenheit. This element is given to whole degree days. Heating degree day values were derived from a base of 65 degrees Fahrenheit. Simple arithmetic procedures were not applied to obtain the heating degree day values. Instead, the rational conversion formulae developed by Thom (1954, 1966) were used. These formulae allow the adjusted mean temperature normals and their standard deviations to be converted to degree day normals with uniform consistency. In some cases this procedure will yield a small number of degree days for months when degree days may not otherwise be expected. This results from statistical considerations of the formulae. The annual degree day normals were calculated by adding the corresponding monthly degree day normals. Extracted for Arizona and 25 mile buffer.
- Purpose
- The Climate Atlas will serve the interests of commercial, industrial, agricultural, research, and educational institutions, as well as those from the general public. Its primary purpose is to show the normal spatial patterns for a variety of temperature, precipitation, snow, and other parameters. (stated on CD ROM) This datasets is made available to interested persons through the University of Arizona's instance of Open Geoportal. It has been provided to assist educators, students, researchers, and policy makers in mapping and/or analysis applications.
- Temporal Extent
- Time Period
- Begin
- 1961-01-01T00:00:00
- End
- 1990-12-31T00:00:00
- Bounding Box
- West
- -115.484557
- East
- -108.4506
- North
- 37.40196
- South
- 31.191245
- ISO Topic Category
- climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
- Theme Keyword
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climatologyMeterologyAtmosphere
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- ISO 19115 Topic Category
- Theme Keyword
-
Heating degree days
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- Place Keyword
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State of Arizona
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- GNIS
- Status
- completed
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- unknown
- Language
- eng
- Point of Contact
- Contact
- National Climatic Data Center
- Delivery Point
- 151 Patton Avenue
- City
- Asheville
- Administrative Area
- NC
- Postal Code
- 28801-5001
- questions@ncdc.noaa.gov
- Phone
- 828-271-4800
Spatial Reference Information
- Reference System Identifier
- Code
- NAD83 (EPSG:4269)
- Code Space
- EPSG
- Version
- 7.9
Data Quality Information
- Lineage
- Process Step
- Description
- Dataset renamed from HDD0813.shp to Arizona_AnnMeanTotalHeatingDegreeDays_1961to1990.shp by Ben Hickson with the University of Arizona Library. Metadata fields corresponding the Open Geoportal Working Group Best Practices Guide (http://opengeoportal.org/working-groups/metadata/) were also updated.
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- Distributor
- University of Arizona Library
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- Topology Level
- Vector Object Type
- complex
- Vector Object Count
- 0
Metadata Reference Information
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- Metadata File Identifier
- Dataset URI
- http://dx.doi.org/10.2458/azu_geo_arizona_annmeantotalheatingdegreedays_1961to1990
- Metadata Date Stamp
- 2017-08-16T16:30:20
- Metadata Standard Name
- ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
- Metadata Standard Version
- 2007