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    • Climate Prediction Center (CPC) Global Land Surface Air Temperature Analysis

    Metadata Updated: January 21, 2025

    A station observation-based global land monthly mean surface air temperature dataset at 0.5 0.5 latitude-longitude resolution for the period from 1948 to the present . It uses a combination of two large individual data sets of station observations collected from the Global Historical Climatology Network version 2 and the Climate Anomaly Monitoring System (GHCN + CAMS), so it can be regularly updated in near real time with plenty of stations and (2) some unique interpolation methods, such as the anomaly interpolation approach with spatially-temporally varying temperature lapse rates derived from the observation-based Reanalysis for topographic adjustment.

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    License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Date April 1, 2023
    Metadata Created Date October 19, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date January 21, 2025
    Reference Date(s) April 1, 2023 (lastUpdate)
    Frequency Of Update

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NOAA/ESRL/PSD

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Date April 1, 2023
    Metadata Created Date October 19, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date January 21, 2025
    Reference Date(s) April 1, 2023 (lastUpdate)
    Responsible Party (Custodian)
    Contact Email
    Guid gov.noaa.psl.dataset.Climate_Prediction_Center_CPC_Global_Land_Surface_Air_Temperature_Analysis
    Category Tag 16E15F51 D96E 4051 9124 75665Abdc6Ff ["Human Health","Food Security","Food Safety and Nutrition","Food Distribution","Food Production","Food Resilience"]
    Access Constraints
    Coupled Resource
    Frequency Of Update
    Graphic Preview File https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/images/small/ghcncams.png
    Harvest Object Id f277291a-412f-4c08-9399-137d5e04d06f
    Harvest Source Id 9d930396-6206-4753-a731-106882c6d24c
    Harvest Source Title NOAA/ESRL/PSD
    Licence
    Lineage
    Metadata Language eng; USA
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Progress ongoing
    Spatial Data Service Type
    Spatial Reference System
    Spatial Harvester True
    Temporal Extent Begin 1948-01-01
    Temporal Extent End 2023-04-01

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