gov.noaa.cpc:l3mto
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Local 3-Month Temperature Outlook (L3MTO)
diagram, map, free text
http://www.weather.gov/climate/l3mto.php
http://www.weather.gov/climate/l3mto.php
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National Weather Service Local Three Month Temperature Outlooks for the United States
Index page for the National Weather Service Local Three Month Temperature Outlooks for the United States
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The Climate Prediction Center (CPC) produces probabilistic Local Climate Outlooks for 3 month average daily temperature for specific locations in the United States. These outlooks use NOAA National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) data at stations and climate divisions. The Climate Services Division (CSD) assists in dissemination and display of the outlooks and Weather Forecast Offices (WFO) perform secondary quality control.
The L3MTO provides information to decision makers who control activities sensitive to three month and intra annual climate variation. L3MTO enhances the level of detail and usability of CPC’s 3-month climate outlooks. Therefore these outlooks will not help people planning events for specific dates or sub- periods, nor those seeking forecasts of monthly temperatures extremes. The L3MTOs will be of most use for economic and risk planning, particularly when used together with climatic reference material (see NWS Instruction 10-1004).
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ISO 19115 MD Topic Category Code
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
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NASA GCMD Science Keywords
Atmosphere > Atmospheric Temperature > Air Temperature
Atmosphere > Atmospheric Temperature > Temperature Anomalies
NASA GCMD Location Keywords
Continent, North America, United States of America
NASA GCMD Location Keywords
Vertical Location, Boundary layer
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Acknowledgement of the Data Originator when using the data item as a source
Climate Prediction Center
Jon Gottschalck
Meteorologist.
Mailing and physical
5200 Auth Road
Camp Springs
Maryland
20746
United States of America
(301) 763-8000
Jon.Gottschalck@noaa.gov
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/l3mto.ncsp.gif
The Climate Prediction Center (CPC) produces probabilistic Local Climate Outlooks for 3 month average daily temperature for specific locations in the United States. The Climate Services Division (CSD) assists in dissemination and display of the outlooks and Weather Forecast Offices (WFO) perform secondary quality control.
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The L3MTO is a probabilistic outlook for a specific location of the 3 month average daily temperature. L3MTO is available on the Internet (http://www.weather.gov/climate/l3mto.php) based on:
a. The 3-Month Outlook from the Climate Prediction Center (CPC). For the contiguous U.S. (CONUS), this would be the CPC climate outlook for the CPC divisional area in which the site resides. See NWS Instruction 10-1001 (Climate Outlooks) for details.
b. CONUS sites only: A correlation between 3-month 1971-2000 climatological data for a local site and its respective CPC climate outlook division climatology, using a regression equation.
c. Alaska and Hawaii sites: Computations of L3MTO Alaska and Hawaii sites follow NWS Instruction 10-1001 (Climate Outlooks) for 3-month temperature outlooks. Format of L3MTO Alaska and Hawaii sites display follows this instruction.
The L3MTO provides local information corresponding to the following content:
a. Three Category Outlook: Probability (in percent) that the average 3-month temperature will fall into each of three categories: above, below, or near normal. The reference to normal climatology comes from the 30-year (1971- 2000) mean 3-month temperature and category limits. (See NWS Instruction 10-1004 for details).Categories are defined as climatologically equally likely; e.g., the top 10 cases of a thirty year record define the above category, the middle 10 cases define the normal category, and the bottom 10 cases define the below category.
b. Range Outlook. The expected range of the average 3-month temperature are expressed for for five confidence intervals or levels of expected chance: 99%, 95%, 90%, 75%, and 50%.
c. Probability of Exceedence/non Exceedence (POE/PoNE) Outlooks. The POE/PoNE outlooks are expressed as the expected chance of the average three month temperature exceeding or not exceeding a particular probability value. POE and PoNE are produced for 19 values: 99%, 98%, 97%, 96%, 95%, 90%, 80%, 70%, 60%, 50%, 40%, 30%, 20%, 10%, 5%, 4%, 3%, 2%, and 1%.
NOAA's Climate Prediction Center
NOAA's Climate Prediction Center
Meteorologist
mailing and physical
5200 Auth Road
Camp Springs
Maryland
20746
United States of America
(301) 763-8000
jon.gottschalck@noaa.gov
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http://www.weather.gov/climate/l3mto.php
http://www.weather.gov/climate/l3mto.php
HTTP
web browser
National Weather Service Local Three Month Temperature Outlooks
Index Page for The National Weather Service Local Three Month Temperature Outlooks
download
None
20090916
NOAA's Climate Prediction Center
Meteorologist
mailing and physical
5200 Auth Road
Camp Springs
Maryland
20746
United States of America
(301) 763-8000
scott.handel@noaa.gov
FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
FGDC-STD-001-1998
http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standards-projects/csdgm_rs_ex/MetadataRemoteSensingExtens.pdf
http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standards-projects/csdgm_rs_ex/remote-sensing-metadata
Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata: Extensions for Remote Sensing Metadata, FGDC-STD-012-2002
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/extensions/local_extensions.html
NGDC Extensions to FGDC Metadata