Template:NOAA normals/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:NOAA normals.
It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template is a Citation Style 1 wrapper template based on {{Cite web}}. For centralised Citation Style 1 discussions, see Help talk:Citation Style 1.

Temporary note

As of August 2016, most of links to NOAA used the old style broken URLs, without this template. For example:

ftp://dossier.ogp.noaa.gov/GCOS/WMO-Normals/RA-I/SC/63980.TXT

This has changed on the NOAA website to:

ftp://ftp.atdd.noaa.gov/pub/GCOS/WMO-Normals/RA-I/SC/63980.TXT

Links should be updated, applying this template in the process: example diff.

Usage

Template is used for linking to sources for climate statistics, on the NOAA ftp site.

|id= – slug of NOAA page URL
|title= – text to display; if no value is entered, defaults to page name with suffix " Climate Normals"
|access-date= – for use in a citation

Examples

For the document about The Seychelles, at ftp://ftp.atdd.noaa.gov/pub/GCOS/WMO-Normals/RA-I/SC/63980.TXT the |id= is RA-I/SC/63980.

{{NOAA normals|id=RA-I/SC/63980|title=The Seychelles}}: "The Seychelles". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
{{NOAA normals|id=RA-I/SC/63980|title=The Seychelles|access-date=25 August 2016}}: "The Seychelles". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved 25 August 2016.