CRN-STATIONS.TXT

This report is a fixed-length text summary listing of current U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) stations,
including identifiers and the latest known location information.

The included identifiers are the NCDC ID number and WBAN ID number.

The location information includes latitude, longitude, elevation, and time zone.

The file is sorted by country and then by state.

*** UPDATE 20131001: NWS Cooperative identifier was replaced with GHCN-Daily identifier.

*** UPDATE 20181101: GHCND ID was moved to the last column due to changes in other similar reports.

FIELD   LENGTH  FORMAT      POSITION     DESCRIPTION
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NCDCID  8       99999999    001-008      Unique identifier used by NCEI.

WBAN    5       99999       010-014      Used at NCEI for digital data storage and general station identification purposes.

NAME    30      X(30)       016-045      Name of station, uppercase may contain characters, numbers or symbols.

COUNTRY 20      X(20)       047-066      Name of country, uppercase.

ST      2       XX          068-069      USPS two character alphabetic abbreviation for each state, uppercase.

COUNTY  30      X(30)       071-100      Name of county, uppercase.

LAT     9       x99.99999   102-110      Latitude in decimal degrees, where "x" is blank or "-".

LON     10      x999.99999  112-121      Longitude in decimal degrees, where "x" is blank or "-".

ELEV    6       999999      123-128      Station elevation in feet, -99999 if missing.

UTC     3       x99         130-134      Time zone, positive or negative offset from UTC, where "x" is "+" or "-".

STNTYPE 50      X(50)       136-185      Type of observing programs associated with the station.

GHCND   11      X(11)       187-197      Populated if station is included in GHCN-Daily product.
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