Iowa Mesonet Data

Summary

This data set contains hourly resolution surface meteorological data from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet. These data are made available through Iowa State University and include data for locations throughout the state of Iowa from a variety of networks including the Automated Weather Observing System (AWOS), the Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS), the Iowa Department of Transporation Roadway Weather Information System (RWIS), the Iowa State University AgClimate Network, the United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA/NRCS) Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN), the National Weather Service Cooperative Network, Data Collection Platforms (DCPs), and the KCCI-TV8 SchoolNet. This data set covers the period from 1 June to 31 July 2002. The data are in GEMPAK format. NOTE: The precipitation for the AWOS stations within this data set have a known problem. See the readme file for complete information. Correct 1-minute resolution AWOS precipitation data are available as a companion dataset.

Data access

• ORDER data for delivery by FTP

Additional information

Homepage	https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/80.001
Metadata download	Text DataCite ISO/TC 211 Note that your browser may not display the above metadata links, but automatically save them as files in a folder such as "Downloads"
Related projects	SMEX02: Soil Moisture Experiments in 2002
Spatial Type	point
Frequency	hourly
Language	English
Categories	Surface
Documentation	IAMESO.txt [7 KiB]
Related links	companion: 80.003: Automated Weather Observing System (AWOS) Iowa 1-min Data

Temporal coverage

Begin datetime	2002-06-01 00:00:00
End datetime	2002-07-31 23:59:59

Spatial coverage

Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.

Maximum (North) Latitude: 44.00, Minimum (South) Latitude: 40.00
Minimum (West) Longitude: -97.00, Maximum (East) Longitude: -90.00

Primary point of contact information

Dennis Todey <dptodey@iastate.edu>

Additional contact information

• originator: Daryl Herzmann

Citation

Example citation following ESIP guidelines:

Herzmann, D. 2007. Iowa Mesonet Data. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/80.001. Accessed 22 Oct 2019.

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