DOE ARM SGP IRT Data 1.0 General Description This data set contains 30 minute resolution data from the Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Southern Great Plains (SGP) InfraRed Temperature (IRT) system. The IRT station is located at the ARM Central Facility in northern Oklahoma. This data set covers the period from 1 December 2003 through 30 April 2005. The data are in netCDF format. 2.0 Contacts Victor Morris (509) 372-6144 victor.morris@pnl.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/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: sgpirt10mC1.b1.20050101.000000.cdf where: sgpirt10m is the data type (IRT at 10 m) C1 represents the facility id (here ARM SGP central facility 1) b1 represents the data level 2005 - four digit year 01 - two digit month 01 - 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_IRT_200501_200504.html where DQR_SGP_IRT is the type of file 200501 is the start month 200504 is the end month html these are html files.