TITLE: Mesonet Ohio Air Monitoring Network 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 Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) air
monitoring network. The network consists of five stations
located primarily in or near urban areas. This data set covers
the period from 20 May to 8 July 2003. The data are in pipe
delimited ASCII format.
2.0 INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION
2.1 Instrumentation
Information on instrumentation can be found in the pdf files included as
part of the data set.
2.2 Station Locations
SITE_NAME CITY Site ID Latitude Longitude Elevation (m)
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348 S Erie Street Toledo 39_095_0024 41.644 -83.546667 190
Friendship PK Shelter Toledo 39_095_0081 41.719 -83.475 183
Malone College Canton 39_151_0016 40.828 -81.378611 373
245 W 5th Street Brewst 39_151_0019 40.709 -81.601111 305
177 S Broadway Akron 39_153_0014 41.079 -81.516667 326
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 pipe (|) delimited ASCII format.
1. RD
2. I
3. state code (39)
4. county code
5. site ID
6. parameter code where
61101 = wind speed (knots)
61102 = wind direction (degrees)
7. 1
8. 1
9. 014
10. 050
11. Date (yyyymmdd)
12. Time of observation (hh:mm) in Eastern Standard Time
13. Observed value
beyond 13 all are empty
4.2 File Naming conventions
The data file is: WSWDSLR
The additional documentation files are:
WSWDSite.pdf - Site description report
WSWDmon.pdf - monitor description report
WSWDsum.pdf - Quicklook all parameters
5.0 DATA REMARKS
None.
6.0 REFERNCES
The Ohio EPA Air Monitoring web page is:
http://www.epa.state.oh.us/dapc/ams/amsmain.html