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Article: Surface.
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- Monthly Climatic Data for the World
- Article date:
- November 1, 2005
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REFERENCE NOTES
Names of countries (areas) and stations are those used in WMO Publication No. 9, Vol. A--Stations, except that long names may be shortened. Only those stations authorized as contributors by the WMO in VOLUME A are published. "Means" and "totals" mentioned below are monthly summary means and totals. Units abbreviations: celsius = C, degrees = o, geopotential meters = gpm, meters = m, hectopascals = hPa, millimeters = mm, minutes = ', percent = %.
The long term surface data AVERAGES required for these tables were calculated for 1961-1990 from data received at the National Climatic Data Center during those years. Six years of data were considered to be ...