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Annual Mean Total Precipitation, Arizona, 1961-1990
- Identification Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Data Quality Information
- Distribution Information
- Spatial Representation Information
- Metadata Reference Information
Identification Information
- Citation
- Title
- Annual Mean Total Precipitation, 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
- The data set was computed using data from the National Climatic Data Center's U.S. National 1961-1990 Climate Normals (NOAA, 1994b). The original daily data and the element are in hundredths of an inch, with daily trace values designated as zero. The mean monthly values were computed by taking the 30-year mean of the monthly means. The monthly means were computed from the sum of the daily precipitation values for a given month. The mean annual value was computed by taking the 30-year mean of the yearly means. The yearly means were computed by averaging their 12 monthly mean values. Data 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
- -115.484635
- East
- -108.4506
- North
- 37.40196
- South
- 31.183411
- ISO Topic Category
- climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
- Theme Keyword
-
climatologyMeterologyAtmosphere
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- ISO 19115 Topic Category
- Theme Keyword
-
Total precipitation
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- Place Keyword
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State of Arizona
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- 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 PREC0113.shp to Arizona_AnnualMeanTotalPrecipitation_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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Distribution Information
- Distributor
- University of Arizona Library
- Online Access
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- Name
Spatial Representation Information
- Vector
- 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_annualmeantotalprecipitation_1961to1990
- Metadata Date Stamp
- 2017-08-16T16:30:28
- Metadata Standard Name
- ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
- Metadata Standard Version
- 2007