Template:WRCC/doc

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Usage

This template creates a ref to the climate pages of the Western Regional Climate Center. It takes two parameters: the type of page, and the station name. At the moment, it can only create links to a few of the pages.

The WRCC station pages use frames, with a narrow left navigation frame and a wider right content frame. By default, the period of record page is shown. In order to get the URLs for the pages listed below, you must right click on the links in the left navigation frame and select "copy link address" (or the equivalent).

Then place the page type code that appears before .pl? in the third parameter, and the station code that appears after .pl? in the fourth parameter. Or even better, replace the hard-to-understand page type code with a more readable parameter name from the list of page types below.

http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliNORMNCDC2010.pl?mn5435
{{WRCC|Minneapolis/St Paul Airport, Minnesota|mn5435|cliNORMNCDC2010 or NCDC 2010}}

Syntax

{{WRCC|station name|station code|page type|accessdate=10 November 2024}}

Page types

|3=NCDC 2010, |3=cliNORMNCDC2010, = National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) 1981-2010 Monthly Normals
|3=period of record monthly, |3=cliRECtM, = Period of Record Monthly Climate Summary
|3=period of record daily, |3=cliRECt = Period of Record Daily Climate Summary
|3=monthly 2010, |3=cliNORM2010tM = 1981-2010 Monthly Climate Summary
|3=daily 2010, |3=cliNORM2010t = 30 Year Daily Temperature and Precipitation Summary

Example

{{WRCC|Minneapolis/St Paul Airport, Minnesota|mn5435|cliNORMNCDC2010|accessdate=10 November 2024}}
{{WRCC|Minneapolis/St Paul Airport, Minnesota|mn5435|NCDC 2010|accessdate=10 November 2024}}

both produce

"Minneapolis/St Paul Airport, Minnesota". National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) 1981-2010 Monthly Normals. Western Regional Climate Center (WRCC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Retrieved 10 November 2024.