Locally verified monthly summary temperature and precipitation data from a NOAA weather station at USDA Jornada Experimental Range headquarters, southern New Mexico USA, 1914-1998

This data package contains locally verified monthly meteorological
observations from a NOAA National Weather Service station located at
the USDA Jornada Experimental Range headquarters in southern New
Mexico, USA. Monthly summary data (based on daily observations) 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 1998 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/GSOM/stations/GHCND:USC00294426/detail
- daily and monthly data are available).