TITLE: Mesonet Kansas Ameriflux Konza Prairie 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 30 June 2002. 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. 


1.	Datacode (awe01)
2.	Rectype (1)
3.	Year (02)
4.	Month
5.	Day
6.	Watershed (w001)
7.	Hour 
8.	Air Temperature (deg C)
9.	Relative Humidity (%)
10.	Wind Speed (m/s)
11.	Wind Direction (deg)
12.	Solar Radiation (Joules/cm2)
14.     Soil Temperature at 25 cm 
15.     Maximum Wind Speed (10 sec) (m/s)

Times are all Central Standard Time.

4.2  File Naming conventions

may.txt

where:
        may is the month


5.0  DATA REMARKS


None.


6.0  REFERNCES


None.