Iowa Mesonet Surface Map Imagery
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/113.010

Summary
This data set contains hourly surface weather maps over the state of Iowa.
They include observations from the Iowa Mesonet. The maps were generated by
Iowa State University. This data set contains imagery from the two PLOWS field
phases, 22 January to 30 March 2009 and 13 October 2009 to 10 March 2010. No
imagery are available for the period between the field phases.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 113.010
 * doi:10.26023/V732-S4SY-4207
   https://doi.org/10.26023/V732-S4SY-4207

Versions
  1.0

Citation
 Iowa State University. 2010. PLOWS: Iowa Mesonet Surface Map Imagery. Version
 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory.
 https://doi.org/10.26023/V732-S4SY-4207 Accessed 19 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
 * PLOWS: Profiling of Winter Storms
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/PLOWS

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

Categories
 * Mesonet
 * Surface

Platforms
 * Mesoscale Meteorological Network - Mesonet
 * Weather Stations

Instruments
 * Automated Weather System

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > DEW POINT TEMPERATURE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND SPEED
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > DEW POINT TEMPERATURE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SEA LEVEL PRESSURE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND DIRECTION

Related links
 * info: PLOWS EOL Project Homepage
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/plows
 * info: PLOWS 2009-2010 Missions
   http://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/plows_09-10/missions/missions.html
 * info: PLOWS 2008-2009 Missions
   http://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/plows_08-09/missions/missions.html
 * info: PLOWS Data Policy
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/content/plows-data-policy-draft

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2009-01-22 17:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2010-03-10 18:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 44.00
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 40.00
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -98.00
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -90.00

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

Additional contact information
 * author: Iowa State University
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1401

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/113.010?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/113.010?format=isotc211