Image Metadata File

Person Submitting Metadata/Point of Contact:

Name: Laura Stevens
Physical Address: 151 Patton Ave Asheville, NC 28801
Organization: CICSNC
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Phone:

Image Info:

Image Title:
Average annual precipitation
Image Description:
Average (1981-2010) annual precipitation (inches) for the Northeast region. Based on a new gridded version of COOP data from the National Climatic Data Center, the CDDv2 data set (R. Vose, personal communication, July 27, 2012).
Attributes (variables name, description and units):
Temporal domain:
Start Time: 1981-01-01 00:00:00.0
End Time: 2010-12-31 00:00:00.0
Spatial domain:
Max latitude: 47.4375
Min latitude: 37.3125
Max longitude: -67.0625
Min longitude: -82.5625
Keywords:
Northeast, Observed, CDDv2, Precipitation
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Citation of image source:

Image Creation:

Who created the image:
Name: Russell Vose
Physical Address: 151 Patton Ave Asheville, NC 28801
Organization: NCDC
Email:
Phone:
When was image created (YYYY-MM-DD): 2012-09-05 00:00:00.0

Data Sources:

Dataset #1
Dataset Name: CDDv2
Dataset Version: 2 beta
Dataset Description: Climate Division Database version 2
Dataset ID:
Dataset Release/Publication Date:
Affiliated Organization Name and Role: NOAA/NCDC
Date Accessed: 2011-06-06 00:00:00.0
Dataset Location (ftp, URL, etc): ftp://ncdcftp/pub/upload/7days
Data qualifier (QA/QC, etc): QA for all elements...
The denominator of the scale of the source/output: N/A
Spatial Reference system used by the source/output: Geographic coordinates (lat/lon)
Citation to metadata:
Description of the scope of a resource, quality report, or process:
Spatial Extent of the source/output (polygon, box or region name): Conterminous U.S.
Temporal extent of the source/output: 1895-01-01 to present
Vertical extent of the source/output: Surface
Identifier of the processing level of the source/input:
Spatial resolution of the source/output: 5 km

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