Image Metadata File

Person Submitting Metadata/Point of Contact:

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

Image Info:

Image Title:
Annual and seasonal precipitation anomaly
Image Description:
Precipitation anomaly (deviations from the 1901-1960 average, %) for annual (black), winter (blue), spring (green), summer (red), and fall (orange), for the contiguous U.S. Dashed lines indicate the best fit by minimizing the chi-square error statistic. 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). Note that the annual time series is on a unique scale. Trends are upward and statistically significant annually and for the fall season.
Attributes (variables name, description and units):
Precipitation anomaly (inches / year)
Temporal domain:
Start Time: 1895-01-01 00:00:00.0
End Time: 2011-12-31 00:00:00.0
Spatial domain:
Max latitude: 49.3125
Min latitude: 25.1875
Max longitude: -67.0625
Min longitude: -124.688
Keywords:
Contiguous U.S., Observed, CDDv2, Precipitation
Usage Limitations/Constraints:
Citation of image source:

Panels within image: 5

Top:
Image Description:
Annual
Start Time:
1895-01-01 00:00:00.0
End Time:
2011-12-31 00:00:00.0
Middle left:
Image Description:
Winter
Start Time:
1895-01-01 00:00:00.0
End Time:
2011-12-31 00:00:00.0
Middle right:
Image Description:
Spring
Start Time:
1895-01-01 00:00:00.0
End Time:
2011-12-31 00:00:00.0
Bottom left:
Image Description:
Summer
Start Time:
1895-01-01 00:00:00.0
End Time:
2011-12-31 00:00:00.0
Bottom right:
Image Description:
Fall
Start Time:
1895-01-01 00:00:00.0
End Time:
2011-12-31 00:00:00.0

Image Creation:

Who created the image:
Name: Laura Stevens
Physical Address: 151 Patton Ave Asheville, NC 28801
Organization: CICSNC
Email:
Phone:
When was image created (YYYY-MM-DD): 2012-08-16 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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