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Hourly solar radiation in Langleys and associated three-digit data-source flag, January 1, 1948 - September 30, 2021

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
1948-01-01
End Date
2021-09-30

Citation

Bera, M., 2022, Meteorological Database, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, January 1, 1948 - September 30, 2021: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9BBP9EJ.

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 "Solar radiation.txt" contains hourly solar radiation data in Langleys and associated data-source flags from January 1, 1948, to September 30, 2021. The primary data for water year 2021 (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, 2022) and processed following the guidelines documented in Over and others (2010). The processed data were appended to ARGN20.WDM (Bera and Over, 2021) and renamed as [...]

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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Material Request Instructions

The data is available as tab delimited text files (.txt) from this child page and Watershed Data Management (WDM) database format (.wdm) from the link https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/62606a87d34e85fa62b8919f.

Purpose

This data set may be used to run the Hydrological Simulation Program- FORTRAN (HSPF) model or any other compatible model for simulating rainfall-runoff 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.

Rights

File is available to download free of charge. Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. Although this information product, for the most part, is in the public domain, it may contain copyrighted materials if noted in the text. Permission to reproduce copyrighted items must be secured from the copyright owner whenever applicable. The data have been approved for release and publication by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Although the data have been subjected to rigorous review and are substantially complete, the USGS reserves the right to revise the data pursuant to further analysis and review. Furthermore, the data are released on the condition that neither the USGS nor the U.S. Government may be held liable for any damages resulting from authorized or unauthorized use. Although the data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the display or utility of the data on any other system, or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. The U.S. Geological Survey or the U.S. Government shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein. Users of the data are advised to read all metadata and associated documentation thoroughly to understand appropriate use and data limitations.

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Data is collected by Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). The primary data for water year 2021 are downloaded from ANL (Argonne National Laboratory, 2022) and processed following the guidelines documented in Over and others (2010).

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