GIDS-1 Hourly Surface Composite
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/1.65

Summary
The GIDS-1 Hourly Surface Composite contains surface and sea level pressure,
temperature, dew point temperature, wind speed and direction, and
precipitation observations from surface observing sites in the central United
States. Visibility, present weather, ceiling, and cloud type heights and
amounts are included for those stations which report them (generally SAO and
ASOS). This composite is the STORM-FEST Hourly Surface Composite augmented
with 6 additional weeks of operational data (15 March - 30 April 1992). NOTE:
An error was found in the calculation of the calculated sea level pressure in
the Illinois Climate Network data in this dataset. Please see the Data Remarks
section of the Readme file for a detailed description of this error.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 1.65
 * doi:10.5065/D61C1V50
   https://doi.org/10.5065/D61C1V50

Versions
  1.0

Citation
 UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. 2011. GIDS-1 Hourly Surface
 Composite. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory.
 https://doi.org/10.5065/D61C1V50 Accessed 24 Apr 2024.

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Acknowledgement
In addition to the citation reference and any other acknowledgements,
please acknowledge NCAR/EOL in your publications with text such as:

  Data provided by NCAR/EOL under the sponsorship of
  the National Science Foundation.
  https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

Related projects
 * GCIP/GIDS-1: GCIP Initial Data Set 1
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project?GCIP%2FGIDS-1

Additional information
 * Spatial Type: point
 * Frequency: hourly
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Surface

Platforms
 * Automated Surface Observing System - ASOS
 * Automated Weather Observing System - AWOS
 * Mesoscale Meteorological Network - Mesonet
 * PROFS Mesonet
 * Portable Automated Mesonet - PAM
 * Weather Stations

Instruments
 * Automated Weather System

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SEA LEVEL PRESSURE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND SPEED
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > AIR QUALITY > VISIBILITY
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > DEW POINT TEMPERATURE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SURFACE PRESSURE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD PROPERTIES > CLOUD CEILING
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND DIRECTION

Documentation
 * hlysfc.txt [18 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/422951A/hlysfc.txt

Related links
 * info: Sample Plot Code
   https://github.com/NCAR/eoldms_plotscripts/tree/main
 * homepage: GCIP/GIDS-1 EOL Homepage
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/gcipgids-1
 * homepage: GCIP EOL Homepage
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/gcip
 * info: GCIP Data Plans and Reports
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/content/gcip-data-plans-and-reports

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 1992-02-01 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 1992-04-30 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 40.00
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 31.00
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -107.00
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -91.00

Primary contact information
 * pointOfContact: EOL Data Support <datahelp@eol.ucar.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1

Additional contact information
 * author: EOL Data Support <datahelp@eol.ucar.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/1.65?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/1.65?format=isotc211