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Hourly wind speed in miles per hour and associated three-digit data-source flag, January 1, 1948 - September 30, 2018

Dates

Start Date
1948-01-01
End Date
2018-09-30
Publication Date

Citation

Bera, M., 2019, Meteorological Database, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, January 1, 1948 - September 30, 2018: U.S. Geological Survey data release, ​https://doi.org/10.5066/P9H8P0F7.

Summary

Note: this data release has been deprecated due to errors found in the ARGNXX.wdm file. Please see the detail in new data release at https://doi.org/10.5066/P146RBHK The text file "Wind speed.txt" contains hourly wind speed data in miles per hour and associated data source flags from January 1, 1948, to September 30, 2018. The primary data for water year 2018 (a water year is the 12-month period, October 1 through September 30, designated by the calendar year in which it ends) were downloaded from the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) (Argonne National Laboratory, 2018) and processed following the guidelines documented in Over and others (2010). The processed data were appended to ARGN17.WDM (Bera and Over, 2018) and renamed as ARGN18.WDM. [...]

Contacts

Originator :
Maitreyee Bera
Metadata Contact :
Maitreyee Bera
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources
SDC Data Owner :
Central Midwest Water Science Center
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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Purpose

This data set may be used as input to the Hydrological Simulation Program-FORTRAN (HSPF) model or other similar rainfall-runoff model for simulating streamflow in DuPage County and nearby areas in northeastern Illinois. This database is available to public and other stakeholders for the purpose of doing rainfall-runoff modeling or similar analyses.

Communities

  • USGS Central Midwest Water Science Center

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Provenance

Data is collected by Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) (Argonne National Laboratory, 2018). The primary data for water year 2018 were downloaded from ANL and processed following the guidelines documented in Over and others (2010).

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