GHCN-Monthly, Version 4, Flag File This file describes all of the data source flags used in GHCN-Monthly version 4. They are formatted as follows: Column1: Alpha-Numeric Flag Column2: Dataset Origin (Note that some sources exist in more than one dataset) GHCND: Global Historical Climatology Network: Daily Dataset ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/ GHCNM: Global Historical Climatology Network: Monthly Dataset ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/v3/ ISTI: International Surface Temperature Initiative ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/globaldatabank/ Column3: Description of Flag ******************************************************************************** 0 GHCND U.S. Cooperative Summary of the Day (NCDC DSI-3200) 6 GHCND CDMP Cooperative Summary of the Day (NCDC DSI-3206) 7 GHCND U.S. Cooperative Summary of the Day -- Transmitted via WxCoder3 (NCDC DSI-3207) A GHCND U.S. Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) real-time data (since January 1, 2006) a GHCND Australian data from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology B GHCND U.S. ASOS data for October 2000-December 2005 (NCDC DSI-3211) b GHCND Belarus update C GHCND Environment Canada D GHCND Short time delay US NWS CF6 daily summaries provided by HPRCC E GHCND European Climate Assessment and Dataset (Klein Tank et al., 2002) G GHCND Official Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) or other government-supplied data H GHCND High Plains Regional Climate Center real-time data I GHCND International collection (non U.S. data received through personal contacts) K GHCND U.S. Cooperative Summary of the Day data digitized frompaper observer forms (from 2011 to present) M GHCND Monthly METAR Extract (additional ASOS data) N GHCND Community Collaborative Rain, Hail,and Snow (CoCoRaHS) Q GHCND Data from several African countries that had been "quarantined", that is, withheld from public releaseuntil permission was granted from the respective meteorological services R GHCND NCDC Reference Network Database (Climate Reference Network and Historical Climatology Network-Modernized) r GHCND All-Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information World Data Center S GHCND Global Summary of the Day (NCDC DSI-9618) s GHCND China Meteorological Administration/National Meteorological Information Center/Climatic Data Center (http://cdc.cma.gov.cn) T GHCND SNOwpack TELemtry (SNOTEL) data obtained from the Western Regional Climate Center U GHCND Remote Automatic Weather Station (RAWS) data obtainedfrom the Western Regional Climate Center u GHCND Ukraine update W GHCND WBAN/ASOS Summary of the Day from NCDC's Integrated Surface Data (ISD). X GHCND U.S. First-Order Summary of the Day (NCDC DSI-3210) z GHCND Uzbekistan update Z GHCND/GHCNM Datzilla m ISTI mexico V ISTI vietnam c ISTI channel-islands e ISTI ecuador p ISTI pitcairnisland j ISTI giessen i ISTI brazil-inmet 1 ISTI brazil 2 ISTI argentina 4 ISTI india 5 ISTI gsn-sweden 8 ISTI canada-raw 9 ISTI east-africa ! ISTI uganda # ISTI antarctica-aws $ ISTI antarctica-palmer * ISTI antarctica-scar-reader + ISTI spain - ISTI uruguay-inia . ISTI uruguay d ISTI swiss-digihom / ISTI ispd-tunisia-morocco : ISTI sacad_non-blended ; ISTI japan < ISTI ukmet-hist = ISTI eklima \ ISTI russsource-antarctica f ISTI russsource-argentina g ISTI russsource-brazil l ISTI russsource-chile L ISTI russsource-cuba n ISTI russsource-greece O ISTI russsource-indonesia o ISTI russsource-iran q ISTI russsource-new_zealand t ISTI russsource-south_africa v ISTI russsource-mexico x ISTI russsource-fao Y ISTI russsource-fwa y ISTI russsource-australia > ISTI russsource-australia_de ^ ISTI russsource-australia_wwr _ ISTI russsource-ghcn ' ISTI russsource-climat ` ISTI russsource-conus_climat ~ ISTI russsource-ak_hi_climat ? ISTI germany w ISTI wmssc @ ISTI central-asia [ ISTI arctic h ISTI histalp ] ISTI hadisd F ISTI/GHCND usforts & ISTI/GHCNM mcdw-unpublished " ISTI/GHCNM ghcnsource J ISTI/GHCNM colonialera | ISTI/GHCNM climat-uk } ISTI/GHCNM mcdw k ISTI/GHCNM knmi P ISTI/GHCNM climat-ncdc { ISTI/GHCNM wwr , ISTI/GHCNM climat-bufr 3 ISTI/GHCNM climat-prelim