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Minnesota Climate Divisions [Minnesota]

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Minnesota Climate Divisions [Minnesota]
Description
Climate Division boundaries for Minnesota as provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/ . There are nine climate divsions within Minnesota. History: For many years the Climate Divisional Dataset was the only long-term temporally and spatially complete dataset from which to generate historical climate analyses (1895-2013) for the contiguous United States (CONUS). It was originally developed for climate division, statewide, regional, national, and population-weighted monitoring of drought, temperature, precipitation, and heating/cooling degree day values. Since the dataset was at the divisional spatial scale, it naturally lent itself to agricultural and hydrological applications. There are 344 climate divisions in the CONUS. For each climate division, monthly station temperature and precipitation values are computed from the daily observations. The divisional values are weighted by area to compute statewide values and the statewide values are weighted by area to compute regional values. (Karl and Koss, 1984). https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/monitoring-references/maps/us-climate-divisions.php , This dataset can be used to identify, view, and summarize data by climate division within the state of Minnesota. This product is one of the geographic unit selections in the MNDNR Climate Explorer tool: https://arcgis.dnr.state.mn.us/ewr/climateexplorer/main/historical
Creator
NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
Publisher
Minnesota Geospatial Commons
Temporal Coverage
2021-07-14
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None
Access Rights
Public
Format
Files
Language
English
Date Added
December 06, 2021
Provenance Statement
The metadata for this resource was last retrieved from the Minnesota Geospatial Commons on 2025-08-26.

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    NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) (n.d.). Minnesota Climate Divisions [Minnesota]. Minnesota Geospatial Commons. https://gisdata.mn.gov/dataset/70e44845-b550-4849-9c6a-6ecca91a9c96 (dataset)
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