DOE ARM SGP SWATS Soil Temperature/Moisture Data
     
     
1.0  General Description
     

This data set contains hourly resolution soil temperature and moisture
data at 5, 15, 25, 35, 60, 85, 125, 175 cm depths from the Department of 
Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Southern Great 
Plains (SGP) Soil Water and Temperature System (SWATS).  These SWATS 
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


Chad Bahrmann 
CIMMS 
University of Oklahoma 
100 E. Boyd St., Rm. 1110 
Norman, OK 73019-1011 

Phone: (405) 325-1855 
Fax: (405) 325-7614 

Email: cbahrmann@ou.edu 


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 SWATS data is available from ARM at:

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


4.0  Data Quality Information


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

4.1  ARM Data Quality Reports


None.


5.0  Data File Naming Conventions


The file names have the following format:

sgpswatsE1.b1.20010701.000700.cdf

where:
        sgpswats is the data type (SWATS)
        E1 represents the facility id (here ARM SGP extended facility 1)
        b1 represents the data level
        2001 - four digit year
        07 - two digit month
        01 - two digit day
        00 - two digit hour
        07 - two digit minute
        00 - two digit second
        cdf - netCDF format extention