Daily Precipitation

as compiled by

Global Data Systems

Files contain daily data on temperature and precipitation for over 10000 stations worldwide. Data was put together from WMO reporting systems by U.S. Department of Agriculture World Weather Board.


Header record: Station id, country, station name, latitude, longitude, elevation

read(8,99)ista,istn,nstat,latd,latm,lond,lonm,elev
99 format(i2,i3,a46,i3,i2,2x,i3,i2,i6)


Detail records: Date (yymmdd), maximum air temperature (Celsius), minimum air temperature (Celsius), precipitation (mm)

6 read(8,1000,end=500)nyr,mo,nd,tm,tn,pr
1000 format(3i2,2(f5.1,2x),f5.1)