Midwestern Regional Climate Center Online Data and Climate Data Services

Link to all products and services:
https://mrcc.purdue.edu/

National Centers of Environmental Information (NCEI) and the Illinois State Water Survey in Champaign, Illinois. Our center is a partner in a national climate service
program that includes NCEI, five other Regional Climate Centers, and State
Climate Offices. NCEI is part of the Department of Commerce, National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

The MRCC serves the nine-state Midwest region (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin). Our services and
research help to better explain climate and its impacts on the Midwest, provide
practical solutions to specific climate problems, and allow us to develop
climate information for the Midwest on climate-sensitive issues such as
agriculture, climate change, energy, the environment, human health, risk
management, transportation, and water resources.

- Online Data:
The MRCC Application Tools Environment (cli-MATE) provides access to real-time
and historical climate data as found and archived at NCEI. These data, combined with research models of important physical processes, enables the MRCC to produce a suite of
products that allows users to monitor the climate on a near real-time basis.

Among the types of information available on cli-MATE are:

Near real-time data for many active reporting sites
User-defined (both time period and climate elements) maps of climate data
Tables of current and historical climate data by
Climate summaries for individual stations

Weekly crop yield risk assessments for corn and soybeans
Daily soil moisture estimates
Drought indices

- Climate Data Services

Daily climate data [digital] for several thousand stations across the United States.
Parameters reported include: high, low, and mean temperatures; precipitation;
snowfall; snow depth and degree days. Limited data is available on pan
evaporation, and soil temperatures. Many of these stations go back to 1948,
although some stations go back to the turn of the century.

Surface hourly observations [digital] for over 100 sites in the eastern half
of the U.S.
Parameters reported include: air temperature, dewpoint, wet-bulb, pressure,
relative humidity, wind speed and wind direction.

Hourly precipitation [digital] for select Midwestern sites.

Storm Data for flood, hail, high wind, tornado, blizzard and any other strange or unusual weather reports.

Historical Climate Division (digital)data back to 1895 for temperature, precipitation, degree days and Palmer drought indices on a monthly basis.

Solar radiation [digital] data for select sites are available on a daily,
monthly or annual basis.

Potential evapotranspiration [digital] data for select sites are available on
a daily, monthly or annual basis.

Modeled soil moisture [digital] data for Midwestern climate divisions back to
1949 on a weekly basis.

CD-ROM Products

[Text Extracted from the MRCC Home Page]