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Climate Division Plots
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Climate Division Information
NCDC's Climate Division Webpage
Get data, references and more info from NCDC.
Data caveats,
Get climate division boundaries. Divisional Areas and other useful files from NCDC.
US Map with list of map climate divisions and individual state maps of the climate divisions (with counties).
Get State averaged temperature and precipitation climatologies.
Related Pages
Atmospheric and Ocean Time series (SOI, PNA, etc.).
Get timeseries from climate division dataset and other datasets.
Plot maps and time series at one climate division (from NCDC). Choose "map interface to selected online data". Under select products, choose "divisional data".
 

Get climate division boundaries and other useful files.

Here are some files NCDC has provided for GIS users.

  1. GIS.OFFICIAL_CLIM_DIVISIONS.CLIMDIV.atx
  2. GIS.OFFICIAL_CLIM_DIVISIONS.dbf
  3. GIS.OFFICIAL_CLIM_DIVISIONS.prj
  4. GIS.OFFICIAL_CLIM_DIVISIONS.sbn
  5. GIS.OFFICIAL_CLIM_DIVISIONS.sbx
  6. GIS.OFFICIAL_CLIM_DIVISIONS.shp
  7. GIS.OFFICIAL_CLIM_DIVISIONS.shp.xml
  8. GIS.OFFICIAL_CLIM_DIVISIONS.shx
NCDC may have more information. Email them if you need to fine more info: ncdc.info@noaa.gov.

NCAR has a netCDF file with the climate division boundaries available entitled "climdiv_polygons.nc". NCL has the boundaries builtin to its plotting code as does GrADS.