BAMEX 2003 Station Information 1.0 General Description The Bow Echo and Mesoscale Convective Vortex Experment (BAMEX) 2003 Data sets contain data collected from over 20000 thousand stations in the BAMEX domain and time period. The station information provided defines each station in the BAMEX datasets with station location, name, frequency of observation, etc. For a complete description of the station information file format, refer to section 2.1. 2.0 Detailed Data Description None. 2.1 Detailed Format Description The following is a complete description of the station information provided with the BAMEX 2003 data. Table 1 details the station list parameters. The beginning and ending dates for the period of coverage are either in Universal Time Coordinated (UTC) or local time and is network dependent. The Identification Type field is network dependent and indicates the source of the Identification field. Example Identification Types are WBAN, FAA, etc. The Occurrence field is an integer value used to indicate co-located stations. Note that when a particular parameter is unknown for a station, either a blank, a question mark, or all 9's will appear in that parameter's position. For a complete list of Country, State, and County values, refer to the documents in the references (Section 4.0). Possible platform types and frequency values are listed in Tables 2 and 3, respectively. Note that only those platform types present in the BAMEX 2003 data have been listed. Table 1 Parameter Description --------- ----------- Identification ID in data. Identification Type ID number type. Latitude Station Latitude. Longitude Station Longitude. Occurrence Station occurrence. Lat/Lon Accuracy Number of digits accuracy in lat/lon values. Name Expanded station name. Commissioned Flag `(C)' indicates commissioned station, `(N)' indicates station which is NOT commissioned. Begin Period of Coverage Beginning date of period of coverage. End Period of Coverage End date of period of coverage. Country Country in which station is located. US is for United States. CA is for Canada. State State code. County County code. UTC offset Hour Offset from UTC time. DST switch 'y' indicates station does switch to Daylight Savings Time (DST). 'n' indicates station does not switch to DST. Platform type Collection Platform. Reporting Frequency Frequency of data collection. Elevation Station elevation. Fixed/Mobile flag Flag indicating if station has fixed location. 'f' indicates a fixed station. 'm' indicates a mobile station. Table 2 Platform Type Description ------------- ----------- 2 National Weather Service (NWS) Cooperative Observer (COOP) 16 High Plains Climate Network (HPCN) 17 Illinois Climate Network (ICN) 40 Automated Surface Observing System. (ASOS) 41 Automated Weather Observing System (AWOS) 46 NWS/FAA network of first order and cooperative recording raingauge sites (Fisher-Porter and Universal gauges). (Rec rainga) 54 National Weather Service rawinsonde soundings. (NWS sonde) 75 United States Geological Survey (USGS) Stream Flow Gauges. (USGS) 111 NCAR Mobile CLASS Sonde 113 DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Sounding 126 DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Southern Great Plains (SGP) Surface Meteorological Observation System (SMOS) (ARMSFC) 139 Colorado Agricultural Meteorological Network (COAGMET) 144 New Mexico State University (NMSU) 146 Missouri Commercial Agricultural Weather Station Network (MOCAWS) 147 National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) 148 National Data Buoy Center Network (NDBC) 150 Dropsonde, GPS 162 Wisconsin Automated Weather Observation Network (WI_AWON) 165 Air Quality Networks (AIRQUAL_IL, AIRQUAL_KY, AIRQUAL_MO, AIRQUAL_OH) 188 WK Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) Long-Term Ecological Site (LTER) 227 Purdue Automated Agricultural Weather Station (PAAWS) 248 Roadway Weather Information System (RWIS) 252 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL) Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS) 253 Unidata Local Data Manager (LDM) World Meteorological Organization (LDMSFCMETR) 258 Kansas Ground Water Management District #5 (GWMD5) 261 DOE Atmospheric Boundary Layer Experiments (ABLE) Automatic Weather Station (AWS) (ABLE AWS) 266 Konza Prarie Long Term Ecological Research (KONZA_LTER) 268 Texas Tech Wext Texas Mesonet (WTXMESO) 272 Texas North Plains Potential Evapotranspiration (PET) 276 Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC) 277 NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) 278 Michigan Automated Weather Network (MAWN) 279 Louisiana Agriclimatic Information System (LAIS) 282 Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC) 283 Lower Colorado River Authority Network (LCRA) 285 Iowa School Network (IA_SCH_NET) 292 Minnesota Precipitation Table 3 Reporting Frequency ------------------- < 1 second 1 second < 1 minute 1 minute 5 minute 6 minute 10 minute 15 minute 20 minute 30 minute 90 minute hourly 2 hourly 3 hourly 6 hourly 12 hourly criteria daily other no set schedule 2.2 Data Remarks The station occurrences were not set for the USGS station information records. 3.0 Quality Control Processing Not applicable. 4.0 References Department of Commerce - National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 1985: Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 10-3 Countries, Dependencies, & Areas of Special Sovereignty. Department of Commerce - NIST, Washington, DC. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 1985: Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 5-1. NIST, Washington, DC. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 1985: Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 6.-3. NIST, Washington, DC. World Meteorological Organization (WMO), 1988: Manual on Codes Volume I, Part B - Binary Codes. WMO, Geneva, Switzerland.