%0 Dataset %T Daily Precipitation at Daxigou Meteorological Station in Urumqi from 1996 to 2005 %J National Cryosphere Desert Data Center %I National Cryosphere Desert Data Center(www.ncdc.ac.cn) %U http://www.ncdc.ac.cn/portal/metadata/dbf9dabe-0d19-11e6-b319-5cc5d45ad3ae %W NCDC %R 10.12072/Tianshan.026.2017.db %A Feiteng Wang %K Precipitation;hydrology;climate %X This dataset mainly consists of daily precipitation data from the Daxigou Meteorological Station from 1996 to 2005. The Daxigou Meteorological Station was established in June 1958 and is located on the mountainside of Tian'er Peak in Daxigou, Urumqi County (next to the No.1 Glacier at the source of the Urumqi River in the Tianshan Mountains), with a length of 3543.8 meters. It is a national first-class hardship station mainly engaged in cloud physics experiments and climate monitoring. In 1975, it was handed over to the Urumqi Meteorological Bureau for management. In 2007, in accordance with the requirements of the business and technical system reform of the China Meteorological Administration, it was renamed as the Daxigou National Meteorological Observation Secondary Station