Mesonet Texas Natural Resources Conservation Commission (TNRCC)
Air Quality Monitoring Network Data
     

CONTACTS:

For general information on this BAMEX data set:

Steve Williams
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder CO 80307-3000
Email sfw@ucar.edu

303-497-8164 (voice)
970-491-8293 (fax)

For specific information on the TNRCC Network contact:

monops@tnrcc.state.tx.us


1.0  DATA SET OVERVIEW
     

This data set contains hourly resolution surface meteorological
data from the Texas Natural Resources Conservation Commission (TNRCC)
Air Quality Monitoring Network.  This network includes a number of
stations around the state of Texas.  This data set covers the period 
from 20 May to 31 July 2003.  These data are in comma-delimited ASCII 
format.


2.0  INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION


2.1  Instrumentation

The instrumentation is the same at all sites.  The wind and 
temperature instruments are located at the top of 10 meter towers at 
all sites.

2.2  Station Locations

Station location information is included in an excel file included
with the data order.  The file is named:
tnrcc_lat_long.xls


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 comma-delimited ASCII format. 

Each parameter has a separate data file containing data
from all sites that measure that parameter.  Examine the header
portion of each file to determine the units and station identifiers.
To get the station locations match the station identifiers from
the header of the data file with the station identifiers from the
excel station location file.  All times are UTC.

4.2  File Naming conventions

tnrcc_dewpoint.txt

where tnrcc is the network
      dewpoint is the parameter

5.0  DATA REMARKS


None.


6.0  REFERNCES


TNRCC Air Monitoring Home Page: 
http://www.tnrcc.state.tx.us/air/monops/index.html