Published February 8, 2021 | Version 0.1
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Global Historical Climatology Network-Daily Database data file converter

Creators

  • 1. Institute of Biology of Komi Science Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Description

Script for converting data from a ' .dly ' file downloaded from Global Historical Climatology Network-Daily Database (GHCN-Daily dataset)

to a table form.

The head of final data table:

STATION_ID    YEAR    MONTH    DAY    TMAX    TMIN    PRCPT    SNWD

 

Values '-9999' and '8888' are 'Not Available' values.

 

Description of Global Historical Climatology Network-Daily Database can be found here:

ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/readme.txt

The "parsing_dly.py" script should be saved in the same directory with ".dly" file.

File name of ".dly" file should be added in parsing_dly.py.

Script should be executed in terminal with command:

python3 ./parsing_dly.py

 

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