TITLE: Mesonet Kansas Ground Water Management District #5 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 Kansas Ground Water Management District (GWMD) #5
Network.  The GWMD #5 network includes 10 stations in south
central Kansas.  This data set covers the period from 1 May to
30 June 2002 The data are in comma-delimited ASCII format.


2.0  INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION


2.1  Instrumentation

The Cambell Scientific, Inc. MetData1 weather stations are
utilized.  See:
http://www.campbellsci.com/p-weatherstations.html#metdata1

2.2  Station Locations
 
SITE_NAME          CITY_LOCATION  ELEV (ft)  X_COORD   Y_COORD
--------------------------------------------------------------
Weather Station 1  Greensburg      2210     -99.31336 37.64489
Weather Station 2  Lewis           2135     -99.23357 37.94081
Weather Station 3  Rozel           2051     -99.33188 38.16304
Weather Station 4  Cullison        2028     -98.90546 37.64386
Weather Station 5  Macksville      1993     -98.90348 37.92658
Weather Station 6  Radium          1956     -98.91145 38.16652
Weather Station 7  Great Bend      1864     -98.80619 38.39776
Weather Station 8  Sterling        1664     -98.21040 38.27800
Weather Station 9  Cairo           1847     -98.55527 37.58717
Weather Station 10 Stafford        1811     -98.51785 37.96870

The elevations are estimated from USGS topographic maps.


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. 


1.	ARRAY ID
2.	YEAR
3.	JULIAN CALANDER DAY
4.	HOUR (24 hour time)
5.	AVERAGE AIR TEMPERATURE (Fahrenheit)
6.	SAMPLE RELATIVE HUMIDITY
7.	AVERAGE VAPOR PRESSURE (kPa)
8.	AVERAGE SOLAR (kW/m2)
9.	ET0 (in\hr)
10.	AVERAGE WIND SPEED (mph)
11.	AVERAGE WIND DIRECTIO
12.	STANDARD DEVIATION OF WIND 

Array Id number associated with hourly output is 129.
Times are all Central Standard Time.

4.2  File Naming conventions

GWMD_WS1.csv

where:
        GWMD_WS1 is the station ID (here Weather Station 1).


5.0  DATA REMARKS


None.


6.0  REFERNCES


None.