WDM file, Meteorological Database, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, January 1, 1948 - September 30, 2018
Dates
Start Date
1948-01-01
End Date
2018-09-30
Publication Date
2019-09-10
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 Watershed Data Management (WDM) database file ARGN18.WDM is an update of ARGN17.WDM (Bera and Over, 2018) with the processed data from October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018 appended to it. The primary data were downloaded from the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) (Argonne National Laboratory, 2018) and processed following the guidelines documented in Over and others (2010). ARGN18.WDM file contains nine data series: air temperature, in degrees Fahrenheit (dsn 400), dewpoint temperature, in degrees Fahrenheit (dsn 500), wind speed, in miles per hour (dsn 300), solar [...]
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
Watershed Data Management (WDM) database file ARGN18.WDM is an update of ARGN17.WDM (Bera and Over, 2018) with the processed data from October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018 appended to it. The primary data were downloaded from the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) (Argonne National Laboratory, 2018) and processed following the guidelines documented in Over and others (2010). ARGN18.WDM file contains nine data series: air temperature, in degrees Fahrenheit (dsn 400), dewpoint temperature, in degrees Fahrenheit (dsn 500), wind speed, in miles per hour (dsn 300), solar radiation, in Langleys (dsn 600), computed potential evapotranspiration, in thousandths of an inch (dsn 200), and four data-source flag series for air temperature (dsn 410), dewpoint temperature (dsn 510), wind speed (dsn 310), and solar radiation (dsn 610), respectively, from January 1,1948, to September 30, 2018. Daily potential evapotranspiration (PET) were computed from average daily air temperature, average daily dewpoint temperature, daily total wind speed, and daily total solar radiation and disaggregated to hourly PET, in thousandths of an inch, using the Fortran program LXPET (Murphy, 2005). Missing and apparently erroneous data values were replaced with adjusted values from nearby weather stations used as “backup”. The Illinois Climate Network (Water and Atmospheric Resources Monitoring Program, 2018) station at St. Charles, Illinois, was used as "backup" for the hourly air temperature, solar radiation, and wind speed data. The Midwestern Regional Climate Center (Midwestern Regional Climate Center, 2018) provided the hourly dewpoint temperature and wind speed data collected by the National Weather Service at the station at O'Hare International Airport and used as "backup". Each data source flag is of the form "xyz", which allows the user to determine its source and the methods used to process the data (Over and others, 2010).
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References Cited:
Argonne National Laboratory, 2018, Meteorological data, accessed on October 10, 2018, at http://www.atmos.anl.gov/ANLMET/.
Bera, M., and Over, T.M., 2018, Meteorological Database, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, January 1, 1948 - September 30, 2017: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7H1318R.
Midwestern Regional Climate Center, 2018, Meteorological data, accessed on October 12, 2018, at https://mrcc.illinois.edu/CLIMATE/.
Murphy, E.A., 2005, Comparison of potential evapotranspiration calculated by the LXPET (Lamoreux Potential Evapotranspiration) Program and by the WDMUtil (Watershed Data Management Utility) Program: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1020, 20 p., https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr20051020.
Over, T.M., Price, T.H., and Ishii, A.L., 2010, Development and analysis of a meteorological database, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1220, 67 p., http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1220/.
Water and Atmospheric Resources Monitoring Program. Illinois Climate Network, 2018. Illinois State Water Survey, 2204 Griffith Drive, Champaign, IL 61820-7495. Data accessed on October 30, 2018, at http://dx.doi.org/10.13012/J8MW2F2Q
The five data sets in this database 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.
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).
