Road Weather Network Data https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/113.061 Summary This data set contains up to five minute resolution surface meteorological observations from road weather stations from 36 US states and 3 Canadian provinces for the PLOWS 2009-2010 field season. In the PLOWS 2009-2010 domain the states included are Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. The data are in comma-delimited ASCII format and were made available by the FHWA Clarus Initiative who collected the data from the various state and province transportation departments. The data are in gzipped tar files by hour. Each hour contains files every twenty minutes containing all observations during that twenty minute period. These data have not been quality controlled. Identifiers * Local archive identifier: 113.061 * doi:10.26023/J0K3-A560-3D0A https://doi.org/10.26023/J0K3-A560-3D0A Versions 1.0 Citation Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Clarus, Loehrer, S. 2010. PLOWS: Road Weather Network Data. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26023/J0K3-A560-3D0A Accessed 29 Mar 2024. Additional citation styles can be generated by entering the DOI at CrossCite (https://citation.crosscite.org/). Acknowledgement In addition to the citation reference and any other acknowledgements, please acknowledge NCAR/EOL in your publications with text such as: Data provided by NCAR/EOL under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation. https://data.eol.ucar.edu/ Related projects * PLOWS: Profiling of Winter Storms https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/PLOWS Additional information * Spatial Type: point * Frequency: 20 minute * Language: English Categories * Mesonet * Surface Platforms * Mesoscale Meteorological Network - Mesonet * Weather Stations Instruments * Automated Weather System GCMD Science Keywords * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > DEW POINT TEMPERATURE * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT > 24 HOUR PRECIPITATION AMOUNT * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > DEW POINT TEMPERATURE * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND SPEED * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT > 3 AND 6 HOUR PRECIPITATION AMOUNT * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION RATE * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > AIR QUALITY > VISIBILITY * EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > SNOW DEPTH * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT > HOURLY PRECIPITATION AMOUNT * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > SOLAR RADIATION * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SURFACE PRESSURE * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND DIRECTION * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY > RELATIVE HUMIDITY Related links * info: PLOWS Data Policy https://www.eol.ucar.edu/content/plows-data-policy-draft * info: PLOWS 2008-2009 Missions http://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/plows_08-09/missions/missions.html * info: PLOWS 2009-2010 Missions http://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/plows_09-10/missions/missions.html * info: PLOWS EOL Project Homepage https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/plows Temporal coverage * Begin datetime: 2009-11-01 01:01:00 * End datetime: 2010-03-24 00:00:00 Spatial coverage * Maximum (North) Latitude: 66.00 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 29.00 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -153.00 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -67.00 Primary contact information * pointOfContact: EOL Data Support https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1 Additional contact information * author: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Clarus https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1439 * originator: Scot Loehrer https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/73 Alternate metadata formats * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/113.061?format=datacite * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/113.061?format=isotc211