Hourly air temperature in degrees Fahrenheit and associated three-digit data-source flag, January 1, 1948 - September 30, 2019
Dates
Start Date
1948-01-01
End Date
2019-09-30
Publication Date
2020-07-09
Citation
Bera, M., 2020, Meteorological Database, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, January 1, 1948 - September 30, 2019: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9X0P4HZ.
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 "Air temperature.txt" contains hourly air temperature data in degrees Fahrenheit and associated data-source flags from January 1, 1948, to September 30, 2019. The primary data for water year 2019 (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, 2019) and processed following the guidelines documented in Over and others (2010). The processed data were appended to ARGN18.WDM (Bera, 2019) and renamed [...]
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 "Air temperature.txt" contains hourly air temperature data in degrees Fahrenheit and associated data-source flags from January 1, 1948, to September 30, 2019. The primary data for water year 2019 (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, 2019) and processed following the guidelines documented in Over and others (2010). The processed data were appended to ARGN18.WDM (Bera, 2019) and renamed as ARGN19.WDM. 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, 2019) station at St. Charles, Illinois, was 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).
References Cited:
Argonne National Laboratory, 2019, Meteorological data, accessed on November 6, 2019, at http://www.atmos.anl.gov/ANLMET/.
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.
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, 2019, Illinois Climate Network: Champaign, Ill., Illinois State Water Survey, accessed on November 6, 2019, at http://dx.doi.org/10.13012/J8MW2F2Q.
The data is available as tab delimited text files (.txt) from the related child pages and Watershed Data Management (WDM) database format (.wdm) from the link https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/5ea1f51682cefae35a19192a
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.
Data is collected by Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) (Argonne National Laboratory, 2019). The primary data for each water year are downloaded from ANL and processed following the guidelines documented in Over and others (2010).
