This directory contains 4 ascii text files.
Monthly Time Series Data Sets for the United States 
for the period 1970-1993. We can not distribute Canadian 
data at this time due to Environment Canada data restrictions. 

US Air Temperature Mean Monthly Time Series	GOM_US_ATemp_TS.txt
US Precipitation Total Monthly Time Series	GOM_US_Precip_TS.txt
US Snowfall Total Monthly Time Series		GOM_US_Snowfall_TS.txt
US Stream Discharge Mean Monthly Time Series	GOM_US_Discharge_TS.txt

Project Name:   Gulf of Maine Watershed Information and Characterization System
Dataset Name:   US Monthly Climate and Hydrology Time Series Data 1970-1993
Resolution:     Station Data
Projection:     Geographic
Region:         Within boundaries of the Gulf of Maine Watershed
Units:          Temperature = degrees C, precipitation = mm, snowfall = mm, discharge = cms 
Data Source:    US Data - US NCDC Cooperative Summary of the Day
                          Stations with data available between 1/1970 and 12/1993, 
			  stations with partial records were included.          
			  
			  USGS Historical Stream Discharge Archive 
			  Stations with data available between 1/1970 and 12/1993,
			  stations with partial records were included. Full length of record
			  included in Time Series.

Data format: 	Tab delimited, 14 columns: 
		station_id, year, Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec
		missing months are blank

Data Set
Compiled By:    Kim Bredensteiner
                Water Systems Analysis Group
                Complex Systems Research Center
                University of New Hampshire
                Durham, NH 03824

Contact information: gm-wics@unh.edu