Dear all,
I can request historical NOAA weather station data before 1997 for about 260 U.S. stations. However, there are around 6000 land-based U.S. stations available through MesoWest and the metadata tells me that some of these stations started before 1997. MesoWest archived data beginning with 1997. Is there a way to access data before 1997 for these MesoWest stations, eventually through a third data provider?
Thank you for your reply, Kenneth. I think I should have been a little more specific. I thought there might be a way to access the data programmatically, since I would like to generate time series for quite a number of stations.
Thank you, Kenneth. This information was very helpful concerning my question.
And interesting observation, I would assume that it has something to do with the homogenization of the time series data. I only know the example from Germany. When the temperatures where recorded manually, you had three data points per day to calculate the average (7:30, 14:30, 21:30 CET). The evening data point was weighted twice. There is a systematic deviation, when you calculate the arithmetic mean from 24 hourly data points, which has to be accounted for.
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