Central Asia Temperature and Precipitation Data, 1879-2003, Version 1

This data set provides temperature and precipitation data from 298 meteorological stations in the Northern Tien Shan and Pamir Mountain Ranges of Central Asia, specifically from stations in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The period of record covered by each station is variable, however, most stations have almost 100 years of observations with the earliest record from 1879 and the latest from 2003. The data are stored as tab-delimited ASCII text format, Microsoft Excel, and PDF files.