DOE ARM SGP EBBR Flux Data
     
     
1.0  General Description
     

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 1 July 
2001 through present.  The data are in netCDF format.


2.0  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 


3.0  Data and Format Information


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

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

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

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


4.0  Data Quality Information


These data have had no quality control performed by UCAR/JOSS.

4.1  ARM Data Quality Reports

These will be included with the data order.


5.0  Data File Naming Conventions


The data file names have the following format:

sgp1smosE15.b1.20010927.000000.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
        2001 - four digit year
        09 - two digit month
        27 - two digit day
        00 - two digit hour
        00 - two digit minute
        00 - two digit second
        cdf - netCDF format extention


Also included are the ARM Data Quality Reports (DQR) for these
data (if applicable) and these have the following format:

ARM_DQR_20010401_20010823.html

where
       ARM_DQR is the type of file
       20010401 is the start date of the earliest quality report
                in the file
       20010823 is the end date of the latest quality report in 
                the file
       html these are html files.