TITLE: Mesonet Texas KVII Schoolnet Data [JOSS] CONTACTS: Scot Loehrer UCAR/JOSS P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307-3000 Phone: 303-497-2631 Fax: 303-497-8158 email: loehrer@ucar.edu 1.0 DATA SET OVERVIEW This data set contains hourly resolution surface meteorological data from the KVII TV School Network. This data set includes data from 4 locations in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles. This data set covers the period from 1 May to 30 June 2002 The data are in tab-delimited ASCII format. Additional sites may become available at a later date. 2.0 INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION 2.1 Instrumentation The station in Booker, Texas uses a PEET brothers Ultimeter 2000 weather station. The station is located at the junior high school in Booker. The roof is a composite shingle surface and is white and gray in color. The surface is flat. The approximate height is 14 ft. The Booker rain gauge is not properly guyed down at this time, so strong winds tend to shake the gauge and record rainfall that hasn't occurred. The station in Beaver, Oklahoma uses a Davis Weather Monitor 2 weather station. The station is located at the high school in Beaver. The roof is a gray, composite shingle surface and is flat. The approximate height is 17 ft. The station in Perryton, Texas uses a Davis Weather Monitor 2 weather station. The station is located at the high school in Perryton. The roof is made up of rocks that are gray and black in color. The surface is flat. The approximate height is 15ft. The station in Spearman, Texas uses a Davis Weather Monitor 2 weather station. The station is located at the high school in Spearman. The roof is rocky and flat with "brown" and white rocks. The surface is flat. The approximate height is 23 ft. 2.2 Station Locations ID Station Latitude Longitude Elev (ft) ---------------------------------------------------------------- BEA Beaver High School 36:48:52 N 100:31:45 W 2,393 PER Perryton High School 36:22:56 N 100:48:41 W 2,915 BOO Booker Junior High School 36:27:01 N 100:32:28 W 2,725 SPE Spearman High School 36:11:33 N 101:11:13 W 3,088 3.0 DATA COLLECTION AND PROCESSING UCAR/JOSS conducted no processing or quality control on these data. 4.0 DATA FORMAT AND FILE NAMING 4.1 Data Format These data are in tab delimited ASCII format. Column Parameter Units -------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Date mm/dd/yyyy 2 Time Time in Central Standard Time (hh:mm) 3 Temp Temperature in deg F 4 Humid Relative Humidity in % 5 DewPoint Dew Point in deg F 6 HeatInx Heat Index in deg F 7 Pressure Sea Level Pressure in inches of mercury 8 Trend Pressure Tendency in inches of mercury 9 Rainfall Precipitation in inches 10 RainRate Rainfall Rate in in/hr 11 WaterLvl Unused 12 Wind Instantaneous Wind Speed in miles per hour 13 Wind Dir Instantaneous Wind Direction (16 point see below) 14 Peak Peak 1-minute Wind Speed in miles per hour 15 Peak Dir Peak 1-minute Wind Direction (16 point see below) 16 Average 1-minute Average Wind Speed in miles per hour 17 Avg Dir 1-minute Average Wind Direction (16 point see below) 18 Chill Wind Chill in deg F 19 In Temp Indoor Temperature in deg F 20 In Humd Indoor Relative Humidity in % NOTE specific to Beaver, Oklahoma site: The data source says that the data reported in the Sea Level Pressure column at this site is in fact the station pressure unadjusted to sea level. The wind directions are represented by numbers from 1-16 (a 16 point compass): 1 = N 2 = NNE 3 = NE 4 = ENE 5 = E 6 = ESE 7 = SE 8 = SSE 9 = S 10 = SSW 11 = SW 12 = WSW 13 = W 14 = WNW 15 = NW 16 = NNW 4.2 File Naming conventions BEA-Dets-June.txt where: BEA is the station ID (here Beaver). June is the month 5.0 DATA REMARKS None. 6.0 REFERNCES None.