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US Hourly Precipitation

November 30, 2024

Name of product or service: 

US Hourly Precipitation

Type of change:

Service will be updated and renamed to COOP Precipitation Data - Hourly (CPD - Hourly)

Description:

The NCEI Data Access Branch will be updating online service for the US Hourly Precipitation product (HPD).   The version 02 product will be available separately as COOP Precipitation Data - Hourly (CPD - Hourly). The version 1 (static) and version 2 will both be included in the Global Historical Climate Network - hourly (GHCNh) product. The web application access point in Climate Data Online v.3 will no longer be available. The bulk download location, web application and map viewer access points will also change.

US Hourly Precipitation Data 

  1. The Hourly Precipitation web application access link will be replaced by Common Access
  2. Hourly Precipitation data integrated into GHCN-hourly will be available at Common Access
  3. The GIS layer for Hourly Precipitation stations will be replaced by the COOP Precipitation Data - Hourly layer https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/maps/hourly/
  4. HPD bulk download locations https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/precip-hly/ and https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/hourly_precip-3240/ will be replaced by https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/coop-hourly-precipitation/ and  https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/oa/global-historical-climatology-network/index.html#hourly/

The planned services retirement date is December 31, 2024. To file an appeal, please contact Rich.Baldwin@noaa.gov by November 30, 2024.

Point of contact:

NCEI Data Access Branch Rich.Baldwin@noaa.gov

Send comments to:

NCEI Data Access Branch Rich.Baldwin@noaa.gov