DOE ARM SGP ECOR Flux Data
     
     
1.0  General Description
     

This data set contains 30 minute resolution latent heat flux and sensible
heat flux data from the Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation 
Measurement (ARM) Southern Great Plains (SGP) Eddy Correlation (ECOR) systems.
These ECOR 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 October 2003 through 30 April 2005.  The data are in netCDF format.


2.0  Contacts

Mikhail Pekour
(509) 375-2470
mikhail.pekour@pnl.gov

David Cook
associate
(630) 252-5840
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 ECOR data is available from ARM at:

http://www.arm.gov/instruments/


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:

sgp30ecorE5.b1.20041014.000000.cdf

where:
        sgp1ecor is the data type (30 min ECOR)
        E5 represents the facility id (here ARM SGP extended facility 5)
        b1 represents the data level
        2004 - four digit year
        10 - two digit month
        14 - 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:

DQR_SGP_ECOR_200310_200412.html

where
       DQR_SGP_ECOR is the type of file
       200310 is the start month
       200412 is the end month
       html these are html files.