Applied Climate Information System (ACIS) - Temperature and Precipitation
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Regional Climate Centers (RCCs)
The Regional Climate Centers (RCC) Applied Climate Information System (ACIS) offers interactive charts with single- or multi-station capabilities. Station products include daily or monthly precipitation, temperature, snow depth, snowfall, heating degree days and cooling degree days observations.
How to
What can I do with these data?
- View current and past station based temperature and precipitation data.
How do I use the site?
- Use the interface to select a product from the “Single-Station” or “Muti-Station” drop-down menus. Select from the “Options selection” and select “Go”
- The “Station selection” option allows you to narrow by ID, List, or Search for stations by city, state or zip
- Download image using the “Chart Content Menu” in the upper-right of the chart.
Access
ACIS Home Page: Landing page for the Applied Climate Information System
High Plains Regional Climate Center (HPRCC) - ACIS Climate Maps: View ACIS climate maps for CONUS, including precipitation, temperature, heating degree days, and cooling degree days
SC ACIS: Create tables, graphs, and maps based on the ACIS daily, monthly, and seasonal station and gridded datasets
Featured Regional Climate Center Products: Explore products from NOAA's Regional Climate Centers that use ACIS data
Download Data
HPRCC GIS Portal: Download shapefiles of ACIS map products
ACIS "Grid 1" data from Drought.gov: Download cloud-optimized geoTIFFs:
- Precipitation totals: 1-month, 2-month, 3-month, 6-month, 9-month, 12-month
- Percent of normal precipitation: 1-month, 2-month, 3-month, 6-month, 9-month, 12-month
- Maximum temperature departure from normal: 1-week, 2-week, 1-month, 2-month, 3-month, 6-month, 9-month, 12-month
- Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI): 1-month, 2-month, 3-month, 6-month, 9-month, 12-month
- Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI): 1-month, 2-month, 3-month, 6-month, 9-month, 12-month
- Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI): 1-week, 2-week 1-month, 2-month, 3-month, 6-month, 9-month, 12-month