I want to check the precipitation, temperature, and rainfall data of South Asian locations.
I downloaded the data from: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/search/data-search/global-hourly?stations=44454099999&pageNum=2
However, I am having difficulty understanding the units.
For example the Temperature has data in the column as
I can't understand in what unit the data is. Can anyone tell me? Also how to check precipitation. I tried reading manual but didn't understand it.
You should read the documentation available here.
For some reason (probably just legacy) NOAA uses really weird encoding for many variables. In the case of the temperature the value after the comma represents the quality code (1 means it passed all quality control checks), while the rest of the numeric is scaled by a 10 factor. Again, don't ask me why... :)
But stop! Don't implement something to decode this data. Other people already thought about this and made some packages that let you parse the data directly without worrying about the format.
Have a look here, here and here. There are many other packages that let you fetch this kind of data online.
