TITLE:  Mesonet ARM Energy Balance Bowen Ratio (EBBR) Data [JOSS]
     
     
CONTACTS:


David R. Cook
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 South Cass Avenue
Building 203
Argonne, IL 60439.
Phone: (630) 252-5840
FAX: (630) 252-5498
E-mail: drcook@anl.gov


1.0  DATA SET OVERVIEW
     

This data set contains 30 minute resolution latent heat flux, sensible
heat flux, and ground heat flux data from the Department of Energy 
(DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Southern Great Plains 
(SGP) Energy Balance Bowen Ratio (EBBR).  These EBBR stations are 
located at many of the ARM SGP Extended Facilities in southern Kansas 
and northern Oklahoma.  This data set covers the period from 20 May to
07 July 2003.  The data are in netCDF format.


2.0  INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION


2.1  Instrumentation

Full information on the ARM EBBR instrumentation is available from
ARM at:

http://www.arm.gov/docs/instruments/static/ebbr.html

2.2  Station Locations

Site                Elevation (m)      Lat.     Long.
Hillsboro, KS: EF-2     450          38.306N   97.301W
Plevna, KS: EF-4        513          37.953N   98.329W
Elk Falls, KS: EF-7     283          37.383N   96.180W
Coldwater, KS: EF-8     664          37.333N   99.309W
Ashton, KS: EF-9        386          37.133N   97.266W
Pawhuska, OK: EF-12     331          36.841N   96.427W
Lamont, OK: EF-13       318          36.605N   97.485W
Ringwood, OK: EF-15     418          36.431N   98.284W
Morris, OK: EF-18       217          35.687N   95.856W
El Reno, OK: EF-19      421          35.557N   98.017W
Meeker, OK: EF-20       309          35.564N   96.988W
Cordell, OK: EF-22      465          35.354N   98.977W
Cement, OK: EF-26       400          34.957N   98.076W 


3.0  DATA COLLECTION AND PROCESSING


Full information on the ARM EBBR data collection and processing
is available from ARM at:

http://www.arm.gov/docs/instruments/static/ebbr.html

General information on ARM data quality is available from ARM at:

http://dq.arm.gov/cgi-bin/dqmenu.pl

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


4.0 DATA FORMAT AND FILE NAMING


4.1 Data Format

These data are in network Common Data Form (netCDF) format.  For
information on netCDF see:

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/index.html

4.2 File Naming Conventions

The data file names have the following format:

sgp1smosE15.b1.20030527.000000.cdf

where:
        sgp1smos is the data type (1 min SMOS)
        E15 represents the facility id (here ARM SGP extended facility 15)
        b1 represents the data level
        2003 - four digit year
        05 - two digit month
        27 - two digit day
        00 - two digit hour
        00 - two digit minute
        00 - two digit second
        cdf - netCDF format extention


5.0 DATA REMARKS


None.


6.0 REFERNCES


None.