gov.noaa.cpc:l3mto DOC/NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC 20060721       diagram, map, free text       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 for the United States      Index page for the National Weather Service Local Three Month Temperature Outlooks for the United States information 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).            20060721 Present ground condition Complete Monthly -180.0 -15.0 90.0 15.0 ISO 19115 MD Topic Category Code climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere 004 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                   None Acknowledgement of the Data Originator when using the data item as a source Climate Prediction Center Jon Gottschalck Meteorologist. Mailing and physical

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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. 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. GIF Not provided Unknown Not available Unknown Unknown 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

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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