Title: Argentina Mesonet Data

Author(s):
-Fernando García. Affiliation: Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera (CIMA/CONICET-UBA) - UMI-IFAECI (CNRS-CONICET-UBA) Mailing address: fido@cima.fcen.uba.ar
-Juan Ruiz. Affiliation: Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera (CIMA/CONICET-UBA) - UMI-IFAECI (CNRS-CONICET-UBA) - Departamento de Ciencias de la Atmósfera y los Océanos FCEN-UBA. Mailing address: jruiz@cima.fcen.uba.ar 
-Paola Salio. Affiliation: Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera (CIMA/CONICET-UBA) - UMI-IFAECI (CNRS-CONICET-UBA) - Departamento de Ciencias de la Atmósfera y los Océanos FCEN-UBA. Mailing address: salio@cima.fcen.uba.ar
-Hernán Bechis. Affiliation: Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera (CIMA/CONICET-UBA) - UMI-IFAECI (CNRS-CONICET-UBA) - Departamento de Ciencias de la Atmósfera y los Océanos FCEN-UBA. Mailing address: hernan.bechis@cima.fcen.uba.ar
-Stephen Nesbitt: Affiliation: Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, Illinois. Mailing address: snesbitt@illinois.edu 

1.0 Data Set Overview:
-This data set consists of  surface meteorological data from different existing surface networks maintained by different institutions (see below) that publish the data in real time through their website.  Most of these automated weather stations are located in Argentina and its neighboring countries . The data was collected in real-time by Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera (CIMA) during the RELAMPAGO (Remote sensing of Electrification, Lightning, And Meso-scale/micro-scale Processes with Adaptive Ground Observations) field season. Data is stored as has been published at the different websites and no quality control has been performed. 

- Time period covered by the data:
September 01, 2018 - April 30, 2019

- Data Sources:
The data were collected from web pages associated with the following institutions:
Bolsa de Comercio de Rosario - Santa Fe - Argentina (BCR)
Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología  - Bolivia (BLV)
Bolsa de Cereales de Entre Ríos - Entre Ríos - Argentina (BOL)
Bolsa de Cereales de Córdoba - Córdoba - Argentina (BOL)
Ministerio de Producción. Gobierno del Pueblo del Chaco - Chaco - Argentina (BOL)
Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería de Córdoba - Córdoba - Argentina (BOL)
Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia -  Brazil (BRA)
Dirección de Hidráulica -  Entre Ríos - Argentina (DHE)
Servicio Meteorológico Nacional - Argentina (EMA or SMN)
Instituto Nacional de tecnología Agropecuaria - Argentina (INTA)
Dirección de Meteorología e Hidrología - Paraguay (PAR)
Sistema de Gestión de Amenazas - Córdoba - Argentina (SGA)
Estación Experimental Agroindustrial - Tucumán - Argentina (TUC)
Instituto Uruguayo de Meteorología - Uruguay (URU)
Weather Underground (WUN)
Ministerio de la Producción -  La Pampa - Argentina (PAM y PA2)
Dirección de Agricultura y Contingencias Climáticas - Mendoza - Argentina (MDZ)
Red de Estaciones Meteorológicas de la Provincia de San Luis (REM) - Argentina

2.0 Instrument Description:
Automatic and conventional weather stations.

3.0 Data Collection and Processing:
- The data were collected in real-time and have not had any quality control applied.

4.0 Data Format:
- CSV hourly files with sub-hourly observations of temperature (°C), relative humidity (%), dewpoint temperature (°C), wind speed (km/h) and direction (°) and surface pressure (hPa).