Observational daily station data for the VALUE experiments, extracted from the ECA&D public (downloadable) archive on September 15th 2014.

This dataset contains the final list of 86 stations with data of precipitation and temperatures (minimum, maximum and mean) selected for VALUE Experiment_1a, as described in http://www.value-cost.eu/data 

The data has been stored following the VALUE text format for station data 
http://www.value-cost.eu/WG2/stationdataformat and covers the period 1961-2010 (which includes the analysis period for this experiment: 1979-2008). 

Version 2 (15/4/2015) includes the following changes:

1. The following outliers have been re-coded as NaNs
==>Precip
000017 (UCCLE)  		695 mm
000194 (UTSIRA) 		442 mm
000243 (SAENTIS) 		1313 mm and 924 mm.

==>Tmin
000054 (POTSDAM)   		85.8 degC
000063 (METHONI)   		48.1 degC
000214 (LISBOA-GEOFISICA) 	-16.9 degC  -> This record is out of the VALUE analysis period.
000355 (MONT-AIGOUAL) 		-39.8 degC
001427 (JACKVIK) 		-99 degC

==>Tmax
000054 (POTSDAM)   		74.8 degC

==>Tmean
No changes, but note that there is no data available for three stations
000017 (UCCLE)
000274 (OXFORD)
000275 (WICK)

2. Those records with Tmax < Tmin have been re-coded as NaNs (for Tmin, Tmax and Tmean). This affects the following stations (number of days correspond to 1979-2008 period):
000017, UCCLE			,  17 days
000054, POTSDAM			,   3 days
000063, METHONI			,   7 days
000107, VESTERVIG		,  10 days
000113, TRANEBJERG		,  17 days
000177, VERONA-VILLAFRANCA	,   3 days
000194, UTSIRA			,   2 days
000200, KAUNAS			,  17 days
000201, KLAIPEDA		,  32 days
000212, BRAGANCA		,  34 days
000214, LISBOA-GEOFISICA	,  18 days
000239, BASEL-BINNINGEN		,   1 day
000243, SAENTIS			,   1 day
000244, ZUERISWITZERLAND	,   3 days
000272, ESKDALEMUIR		, 202 days
000275, WICK			,   7 days
000349, STORNOWAY		,  26 days
000350, VALLEY			,  24 days
000351, WADDINGTON		,  29 days






