Data · collection · 1997
Climate History of the Mojave Desert Region, 1892 - 1996
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR
The Climate History of the Mojava Desert Region provides an overview of regional climate variations including precipitation and temperature information.
Description
To evaluate climate variation, weather data was compiled from 48 long-term weather stations across the Mojave Desert. The stations are in western Arizona, eastern California, southern Nevada, and southwest Utah.
The primary data set consists of about 1.2 and 1.8 million daily observations of precipitation and temperature, respectively. These data were collected mainly at weather stations staffed by volunteers (NOAA, 1986). Some of the raw data were purchased in electronic form from EarthInfo, Inc. who obtained it from the National Climate Data Center (NCDC), Asheville, North Carolina.
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These data do not contain the entire record of a particular station, as the available electronic record typically begins in 1948. To evaluate climate variation, the longest possible record is necessary. Thus, the USGS obtained from the NCDC the complete National Weather Service reports on microfiche for the four-state region of the Mojave Desert.
These data were entered into the computer manually, producing a record of precipitation beginning in 1892. [Summary provided by the USGS.]
Links
Documentation and papers
- Extended metadata www1.usgs.gov/metadata/mdata/MISC/usgs_d_mojaveClimMojave.xml ↗
documentation · from NASA CMR
Catalogue records · 2
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2231550943-CEOS_EXTRA.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2231550943-CEOS_EXTRA.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Air Temperature · Deserts · Desert Scrub · MAPS · Maximum/Minimum Temperature · Precipitation Amount · RAIN GAUGES · THERMOMETERS
- Inferred from text
- Climate change science 72%
Provenance · 1 source records, 16 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C2231550943-CEOS_EXTRA | 14 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:3702 | enrichment · NASA CMR | taxonomy-embedding@1.1.0 | title+keywords+description (72%) |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:rain-gauges | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:thermometers | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/atmospheric-temperature/surface-temperature/air-temperature | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/atmospheric-temperature/surface-temperature/maximum-minimum-temperature | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/precipitation/precipitation-amount | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biosphere/ecosystems/terrestrial-ecosystems/deserts | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biosphere/ecosystems/terrestrial-ecosystems/deserts/desert-scrub | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:maps | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| publication_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |