CEOP/EOP-1 CAMP Northern South China Sea - Southern Japan Hourly Soil Heat Flux, Moisture, and Temperature Data Set

1.0 Contact Information

1.1 UCAR/JOSS Contact

   Steven F Williams
   Data Specialist
   UCAR/JOSS
   P.O. BOX 3000
   Boulder, CO, USA, 80307-3000

   Telephone: 303-497-8987
   Facsimile: 303-497-8158
   E-Mail Address: sfw@ucar.edu

1.2 Northern South China Sea - Southern Japan Contact

   Tsing-Chang Chen
   Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences
   3010 Agronomy Hall
   Iowa State University 
   Ames, IA  USA, 50010

   Phone: (515) 294-9874
   Fax:   (515) 294-2619
   Email: tmchen@iastate.edu


2.0 General Description
    
This data set contains the Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period (CEOP)
Enhanced Observing Period 1 (EOP-1) CEOP Asian-Australia Monsoon Experiment
(CAMP) Northern South China Sea - Southern Japan Hourly Soil Heat Flux,
Moisture, and Temperature Data Set. This data set contains hourly soil
temperature (5cm, 10cm, 20cm, and 30cm depth) data from 14 stations for the
CEOP EOP-1 time period (01 July  2001 to 30 September 2001). The University
Corporation for Atmospheric Research/ Joint Office for Science Support
(UCAR/JOSS) did not perform quality control  processing on this data set.

3.0  Detailed Data Description

3.1 CAMP Northern South China Sea - Southern Japan Algorithms

3.1.1 Native format data

This data set is also available on-line in native format at 
www.joss.ucar.edu/ghp/ceopdm/archive/eop1_data/index.html
under the heading CEOP EOP-1 "Native Format" Reference Site Data Sets,
CAMP. For a document describing the native format data, see the
Documentation provided at the same site.

3.1.1 CEOP/EOP-1 Hourly Soil Heat Flux, Moisture, and Temperature format data

This CEOP/EOP-1 CAMP Northern South China Sea - Southern Japan Hourly Soil
Heat Flux, Moisture, and Temperature data set was formed by reformatting the
thrice daily observations from the native format data. 

In the native format, only soil temperatures were provided at a depth of 5cm,
10cm, 20cm, and 30cm. No soil moisture, or soil heat flux data were provided.
All soil temperatures provided in the native format data are included in this
data set.

More information regarding this site can be found under the CEOP Reference 
Site Station Characteristics link on the UCAR/JOSS CEOP Data Management page. 

3.2 Station Information

The following is a complete description of the station information provided 
with this CEOP CAMP Northern South China Sea - Southern Japan data set. The
actual station information is delivered with the data. Table 1 details the
station list parameters.  The beginning and ending dates for the period of
coverage are in Universal Time Coordinated (UTC). The Identification Type
field is network dependent and indicates the source of the Identification
field. The Occurrence field is an integer value used to indicate co-located
stations. Note that when a particular parameter is unknown for a station,
either a blank, a question mark, or all 9's will appear in that parameter's
position. For a complete list of Country, State, and County values, refer to
the document in the references (Section 5.0). Possible platform types and
frequency values are listed in Tables 2 and 3, respectively.  Note that only
those platform types present in the CEOP EOP-1 data have been listed. Table 4
contains the station information for this CEOP CAMP Northern South China Sea -
Southern Japan data set.

Table 1

Parameter                Description
---------                -----------
Identification           ID in data
Identification Type      Internal ID number type
Latitude                 Station Latitude
Longitude                Station Longitude
Occurrence               Station occurrence
Lat/Lon Accuracy         Number of digits accuracy 
                         in lat/lon values
Name                     Expanded station name
Commissioned Flag        `(C)' indicates commissioned station,
                         `(N)' indicates station which is NOT
                         commissioned
Begin Period of Coverage Beginning date of period of coverage
                         (YYYYMMDD)
End Period of Coverage   End date of period of coverage
                         (YYYYMMDD)
Country                  Country in which station is located
State                    State code
County                   County code
UTC offset               Hour Offset from UTC time
DST switch               'y' indicates station does switch to
                         Daylight Savings Time (DST). 'n' indicates 
                         station does not switch to DST
Platform type            Collection Platform. See Table 2
Reporting Frequency      Frequency of data collection
Elevation                Station elevation
Fixed/Mobile flag        Flag indicating if station has fixed
                         location. 'f' indicates a fixed station.
                         'm' indicates a mobile station

Table 2

Platform Type  Description
-------------  -----------
264            CEOP Reference Site Platform

Table 3                                            
   
Reporting Frequency
-------------------
every 7 hours


3.3  Detailed Format Description
     
The CEOP EOP-1 CAMP Northern South China Sea - Southern Japan Hourly Soils
Data Set contains 11 metadata parameters followed by parameter values for 26
soils depths (i.e., 0,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,10,15,16,20,25,30,32,35,40,45,50,
60,64,85,100,125,150,175 cm). The metadata parameters describe  the station
location and time at which the data were collected and the record type. The
record type describes the type of data found on that record and is described
in the Table 5 below. The time of observation is reported both in Universal
Time  Coordinated (UTC) Nominal and UTC actual time.  Days begin at  UTC 0100
and end at UTC 0000 the following day. Note that missing parameter values are
indicated by "-999.99". The table below details the parameters in each record.

Parameters                   Units 
----------                   -----
Date of Observation          UTC Nominal 
Time of Observation          UTC Nominal 
Date of Observation          UTC Actual
Time of Observation          UTC Actual
CSE Identifier               Abbreviation of CSE name
Reference Site Identifier    Abbreviation of Site name
Station Identifier           Reference Site Dependent 
Latitude                     Decimal degrees, South is negative
Longitude                    Decimal degrees, West is negative
Station Elevation            Meters 
Record Type                  Type of data in current record.
                             See Table 5.
Parameter Values             Parameter Values for 26 depths


Table 5

Record Type    Description
-------------  -----------
SoilTemp       Soil temperature in Celsius
SoilMoist      Volumetric soil water content in percent
SoilHtFlux     Soil heat flux in W/m2
     
3.4  Data Remarks

This data set is also available on-line in native format at 
http://www.joss.ucar.edu/ghp/ceopdm/ under the link "CEOP EOP-1 Reference 
Site Data Sets" 

4.0  Quality Control Processing

UCAR/JOSS performed limited gross limit and visual checks on this
data set. No data values have been changed.

5.0  References

Department of Commerce - National Institute of Standards and Technology
   (NIST), 1985: Federal Information Processing Standards Publication
   10-3 Countries, Dependencies, & Areas of Special Sovereignty.
   Department of Commerce - NIST, Washington, DC.