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Welcome to the Climate Data Plotting page
Here you can plot time series of United States climate information at a location or aggregated for an ecoprovince.
If you specify a location, the nearest point from the selected data source will be plotted.
If you would like to plot aggregated values for an ecoprovince, you can select the ecoprovince name or input a latitude/longitude; you can also specify an elevation range.
Please enter your choices in the three steps below and select a button at the bottom of the page.
Step 1: Select spatial grain: location lat/lon, ecoprovince lat/lon, or ecoprovince name
a. Enter lat/lon of US location/station:
   
lat      
lon        (Note: decimal degrees; no 'N', etc.; use negative longitude for 'W')
b. Or enter lat/lon of US ecoprovince:
     
lat      
lon        (Note: decimal degrees; no 'N', etc.; use negative longitude for 'W')
c. Or select ecoprovince name from the list below
1. Cascade
2. Pac Lowland Mixed For
3. Sierra-N CA Mountains
4. CA N Coastal
5. CA Dry Steppe
6. CA Chaparral
7. CA Coastal Range
8. American Semi-Desert
9. Intermtn Semi-Desert-Desert
10. Intermtn Semi-Desert
11. Middle Rockies
12. Northern Rockies
13. NV-UT Mountains
14. CO Plateau Semi-Desert
15. Southern Rockies
16. Great Plains-Palouse Dry Steppe
17. AZ-NM Mountains
18. Chihuahuan Semi-Desert
19. SW Plateau-Plains
20. Black Hills
21. Great Plains Steppe
22. Prairie Temperate
23. Prairie Subtropical
24. Great Plains Steppe Shrub
25. SE Mixed For
26. Ouachita Mixed For
27. Ozark Broadleaf For
28. E Broadleaf For Continental
29. Laurentian Mixed For
30. Lower MS For
31. Coastal Plain Mixed For
32. Everglades
33. Central Appalachian
34. E Broadleaf For Oceanic
35. Adirondack-NE
Select start and end elevation (only for ecoprovince) (m)
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Step 2: Select data source for display      
Information about data sources
Select data source
HCN
HCN/Daily
SNOTEL
VEMAP
Select variable
Tavg
Tmin
Tmax
Step 3: Select plotting parameters
Select temporal mean resolution
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Select start, end years for averaging/smoothing
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