TITLE: Mesonet Kansas LTER Konza Prairie Meteorological Data [JOSS] CONTACTS: Steve Williams P.O. Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 Email sfw@ucar.edu 303-497-8164 (voice) 970-491-8293 (fax) 1.0 DATA SET OVERVIEW This data set contains hourly resolution surface meteorological data from the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network site at the Konza Prairie site in eastern Kansas. This data set covers the period from 1 May to 31 July 2003. The data are in columnar ASCII format. 2.0 INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION 2.1 Instrumentation A Campbell Scientific (CR-10) data logger continuously monitors the parameters at hourly intervals. 2.2 Station Locations SITE_NAME ELEV (m) Latitude Longitude -------------------------------------------------------------- Konza LTER 350 39.1022 -96.6092 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 columnar ASCII format. First Column: awe011yymmdd where awe01 is the data code 1 is the record type yy is the two digit year (03) mm is the two digit month dd is the two digit day Second Column: Watershed (w001) Third Column hhmm where hh is the two digit hour mm is the two digit minute Times are in Central Standard Time 4. Air Temperature at 2 m (deg C) 5. Relative Humidity at 2 m (%) 6. Wind Speed at 3 m (m/s) 7. Wind Direction at 3 m (deg) 8. Solar Radiation (Joules/cm2) 9. Soil Temperature at 25 cm 10. Maximum Wind Speed (10 sec) (m/s) 4.2 File Naming conventions AWE01JUL.03 where: AWE01 is the data code JUL is the month (July) 03 is the year (2003) 5.0 DATA REMARKS None. 6.0 REFERNCES Konza Prairie LTER Program Web Site: http://www.konza.ksu.edu/