mirrored from cdiac.esd.ornl.gov:/pub/prc March 10, 1993 The "prc" directory contains 6 data files associated with data described in the DOE Technical Report - TR055, Climate Data Bases of the People's Republic of China, 1841-1988. Anyone wishing to use these data files should order TR055 from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) at the address: Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center Oak Ridge National Laboratory Post Office Box 2008 Bldg. 1000, MS6335 Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6335, U.S.A. The report is available free of charge. TR055 provides information needed to read and interpret the data files in the prc directory. TR055 describes additional instrumental climate data from the PRC which is located in the "ndp039" directory. These are data from 60- and 205-station data networks which are described in more detail in NDP-039, Two Long-Term Instrumental Climatic Data Bases of the People's Republic of China, also available free of charge from CDIAC. The following briefly describes the 6 files found in the prc directory. File Name Description _________ ___________ 40stations The station inventory file for the PRC 40-station max/min temperature network. 40mxmntemp.dat Monthly mean and monthly extreme max/min temperatures from the 40-staiton network. 180stations The station inventory file for the PRC 180-station daily precipitation network. 180daily.dat Daily precipitation totals for stations in the 180-station daily precipitation network. 147stations The station inventory file for the PRC 147-station ten-day precipitation network. 147tenday.dat Ten-day precipitation totals for stations in the 147-station ten-day precipitation network.