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National Weather Service Station at KBS - Daily Observations

Minimum and maximum temperature, precipitation, and depth of snow cover are recorded daily from the Gull Lake Biological Station COOP (#203504) National Weather Observatory station.

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Context:

This data set contains information collected from the “Gull Lake Biological Station COOP” (#203504) weather observatory located at the W. K. Kellogg Biological Station. Data is also archived at the national weather service. The station is located at 42 degrees 24 minutes north and 85 degrees 23 minutes west at an elevation of 277.4 meters. Observations began on Jan 1 1948.

Experiment: Research Context
Temporal Coverage: 1948-01-01 to 2011-12-31
Dataset: KBS017
Datatable ID: KBS017-001.20
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Last Updated 2010-03-22
Metadata
Variate Description Units
Year Year in which the date occurs
Date The date represents time intervals from 16:00 thru 16:00 e.g. minimum temperature data for 02-may-1987 is the minimum temperature recorded from 30-apr-1987:16:00 to 01-may-1987:16:00. This date corresponds to date noted at the end of the day interval. (01-may-1987:24:00:00 = 02-may-1987:00:00:00).
Time of Observation approximate time of observation
Temp Max maximum temperature for previous 24 hour period fahrenheit
Temp Min minimum temperature for previous 24 hour period fahrenheit
Temp at Observation temperature at time of observation fahrenheit
Precip Rain precipitation as rain for previous 24 hour period inch
Precip Snow precipitation as snow for previous 24 hour period inch
Precip On Ground depth of snow on ground at time of observation inch
Fog occurence of fog for the observation period
Ice Pellets occurence of ice pellets for the observation period
Glaze occurence of glaze (freezing rain) for the observation period
Thunder occurence of thunder for the observation period
Hail occurence of hail for the observation period
Damaging Wind occurence of damaging wind for the observation period
Remarks observer's comments

Data Excerpt

Year Date Time Of Observation Temp Max Temp Min Temp At Observation Precip Rain Precip Snow Precip On Ground Fog Ice Pellets Glaze Thunder Hail Damaging Wind Remarks
2012 2012-04-30 62.0 41.0 58.0 0.8100 0.0000 0.0000
2012 2012-04-29 62.0 29.0 61.0 0.0200 0.0000 0.0000
2012 2012-04-28 56.0 37.0 41.0 0.2300 0.0000 0.0000
2012 2012-04-27 55.0 28.0 54.0 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
2012 2012-04-26 63.0 33.0 53.0 0.1000 0.0000 0.0000
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