Locally verified daily temperature and precipitation data from a NOAA weather station at USDA Jornada Experimental Range headquarters, southern New Mexico USA, 1914-2006

This data package contains locally verified daily meteorological
observations from a NOAA National Weather Service station located at
the USDA Jornada Experimental Range headquarters in southern New
Mexico, USA. Daily data has been collected there by USDA staff since
1914 for minimum and maximum air temperature and daily accumulated
precipitation using standard U.S. climatological service
instrumentation and procedures. The included data were verified and
transcribed directly from the original paper data sheets and have
undergone quality control and assurance procedures different than
those in place at NOAA. These data therefore differ from those
directly downloadable from NOAA servers. Local verification and
transcription of observations from the data sheets ceased in 2006
and data are now directly entered to the NOAA system. Therefore,
this dataset is complete and will no longer be added to. All observations from this weather station have also undergone NOAA
QA/QC procedures and those data are available by accessing the
Jornada Experimental Range, NM US GHCN station through the National
Climatic Data Center portal
(https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datasets/GHCND/stations/GHCND:USC00294426/detail
- daily and monthly data are available).