Ingest code to convert NOAA's 5km gridded GHCN-D temperature and precipitation dataset (nClimGrid) from ASCII to NetCDF.
ASCII versions of the monthly averaged nClimGrid datasets in GIS "point file" format are available for download from NCEI/NOAA, and are used as the input sources for this conversion process.
The results of this ingest process should be available from NOAA here by the end of the first week of the month. However if you're impatient or if NOAA delays posting the NetCDF versions of the data (it's often out-of-date by several months) then use this code to cook up the datasets yourself.
$ python3 nclimgrid_ingest.py --dest_dir /data/nclimgrid --start 189501 --end 201909