TITLE: Mesonet Arizona Mohave County ALERT Precipitation Network Data
     
CONTACTS:


Fred Weyermiller, Traffic Control Division Coordinator
fred.weyermiller@co.mohave.az.us

Philip Wisely, Flood Control Division Coordinator
philip.wisely@co.mohave.az.us

Don Bischoff, Law Enforcement Coordinator
don.bischoff@co.mohave.az.us

ALERT Flood Warning System
AFWS@co.mohave.az.us

Mohave County, Arizona
809 E. Beale Street
PO Box 7000
Kingman, AZ 86402-7000
928-753-9141

Mohave County ALERT web page
http://weather.co.mohave.az.us/perl/DWReports.pl


1.0  DATA SET OVERVIEW
     

This data set contains hourly precipitation data from the Mohave
County ALERT precipitation network.  There are a total of 43 stations
included in the data set.  The stations are located throughout Mohave 
County in Arizona.  This data set covers the period from 1 June to 
30 September 2004.  The data are in ASCII format.


2.0  INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION

2.1  Instrumentation Information

No information at present.

2.2  Station Locations

No information at present.


3.0  DATA COLLECTION AND PROCESSING


Information on the collection and processing of these data can be
found at the Mohave County network page:
http://weather.co.mohave.az.us/perl/DWReports.pl

UCAR/JOSS conducted no processing or quality control on these data.


4.0  DATA FORMAT AND FILE NAMING


4.1  Data Format
 
There are individual files for each station.

These data are in ASCII format. 

Each file contains some header records, e.g.

Device 7620 Thirteenmile Wash Precipitation_Gage No data for Device

                         DataWise Tabular Report
                                  Date     Time
                                03/30/05 14:19:32

DeviceID    7620
StatType     dif
DataType  precip
Units         in


These provide the sensor id (7620) the station name (Thirteenmile Wash),
and the units (in).  The dates and times are Mountain Standard Time.

The data portion looks like this:

09/30/2004
2300        0.00
2200        0.00
2100        0.00
2000        0.00

and has the following form:
mm/dd/yyyy
hhmm
This is followed by the parameter value

4.2  File Naming conventions

StationName_SensorID_Parameter.txt
e.g.
ThirteenmileWash_7620_PrecipitationGage.txtt


5.0  DATA REMARKS


None.


6.0  REFERNCES


None.