---
id: "ghcnd_station_id"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["environment", "science", "geo"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 80
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/ghcnd_station_id"
---

# GHCN-Daily station identifier (`ghcnd_station_id`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Identifier of a weather station in the Global Historical Climatology Network daily dataset of NOAA NCEI, 11 characters long. The first two characters are the FIPS 10-4 country code (not ISO 3166, so GM is Germany and RS is Russia), the third is the code of the source numbering system (for example W for WBAN, M for WMO, C for US Cooperative, 1 for CoCoRaHS, N for national networks) and the last eight hold the station number of that system, padded with zeros. The same identifiers are used in GHCN-Monthly version 4.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Environment (protected areas, biodiversity, water, weather, emissions, waste) (environment), Scientific (science), Geographic identifiers (geo)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^[A-Z]{2}[01CEMNPRSW][0-9A-Za-z_-]{8}$
```

## Examples

- `USW00094728` — New York Central Park (WBAN 94728); ghcnd-stations.txt
- `RSM00027612` — Moscow (WMO 27612); ghcnd-stations.txt
- `ASN00086071` — Melbourne Regional Office, Australia; ghcnd-stations.txt
- `US1AZMR0156` — CoCoRaHS station AZ-MR-156 near Phoenix, Arizona; GHCN-Daily readme example
- `USW94728` (invalid example) — WBAN number not padded to eight characters
- `USX00094728` (invalid example) — X is not a GHCN-Daily network code

## Translations

- ru: Идентификатор станции GHCN-Daily: Идентификатор метеостанции в наборе данных Global Historical Climatology Network Daily (NOAA NCEI) из 11 символов — код страны FIPS, код сети и номер станции.

## Sources

- doc: <https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/readme.txt>
- doc: <https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/land-based-station/global-historical-climatology-network-daily>

## Quality

Score 80/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/ghcnd_station_id.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/environment/ghcnd_station_id.yaml>