NAME 2004 Station Information 1.0 General Description The North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME) 2004 Data sets contain data collected from over 38000 stations in the NAME Tier 3 domain and time period. The station information provided defines each station in the NAME datasets with station location, name, frequency of observation, etc. For a complete description of the station information file format, refer to section 2.1. 2.0 Detailed Data Description None. 2.1 Detailed Format Description The following is a complete description of the station information provided with the NAME 2004 data. Table 1 details the station list parameters. The beginning and ending dates for the period of coverage are either in Universal Time Coordinated (UTC) or local time and is network dependent. The Identification Type field is network dependent and indicates the source of the Identification field. Example Identification Types are WBAN, FAA, etc. 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 documents in the references (Section 4.0). Possible platform types and frequency values are listed in Tables 2 and 3, respectively. Note that only those platform types present in the NAME 2004 data have been listed. Table 1 Parameter Description --------- ----------- Identification ID in data. Identification Type 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. End Period of Coverage End date of period of coverage. Country Country in which station is located. US is for United States. CA is for Canada. 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. 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 ------------- ----------- 2 National Weather Service (NWS) Cooperative Observer (COOP) 46 NWS/FAA network of first order and cooperative recording raingauge sites (Fisher-Porter and Universal gauges). (Rec rainga) 54 National Weather Service rawinsonde soundings. (NWS sonde) 75 United States Geological Survey (USGS) Stream Flow Gauges. (USGS) 90 Rawinsonde, Military 121 Rawinsonde, NCAR/ISS (Vaisala RS-80) 144 New Mexico State University (NMSU) 147 National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Precipitation. 203 Pilot Balloon (PIBAL) PACS-SONET 205 AZMET Meteorological Tower 252 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL) Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS) 253 Unidata Local Data Manager (LDM) World Meteorological Organization (LDMSFCMETR) 254 NCAR Integrated Sounding System (ISS) RASS 289 Army Range Proving Grounds Automated Weather Station 294 Salt River Project Platform 297 ALERT Tower 301 SMN-CNA Mexico GASIR Network 302 NOAA/AL Estacion Obispo Super Site 304 NERN 305 MX SMN-CNA AWS 306 MX Navy SEMAR Altair 307 MX Agrimet Sonora 308 MX CLICOM 309 Rawinsonde, NCAR/GLASS 310 Rawinsonde, Costa Rica 311 Rawinsonde, Ecuador 312 Rawinsonde, SMN-CNA 313 MX UNAM El Puma 314 MX CICESE Francisco de Ulloa 315 Rawinsonde, Belize 316 MX SEMAR AWS 318 Mexico IMTA (Instituto Mexicano De Tecnologia Del Agua) Simple Raingauge Network Table 3 Reporting Frequency ------------------- < 1 second 1 second < 1 minute 1 minute 5 minute 6 minute 10 minute 15 minute 20 minute 30 minute 90 minute hourly 2 hourly 3 hourly 6 hourly 12 hourly criteria daily other no set schedule 2.2 Data Remarks The station occurrences shown for the USGS streamflow and sounding networks were not set in the data. Duplicate stations were not removed from this station list composite nor the final composite datasets for NAME 2004. Only the occurrence values were set in this station list composite. 3.0 Quality Control Processing Not applicable. 4.0 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. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 1985: Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 5-1. NIST, Washington, DC. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 1985: Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 6.-3. NIST, Washington, DC. World Meteorological Organization (WMO), 1988: Manual on Codes Volume I, Part B - Binary Codes. WMO, Geneva, Switzerland.