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WDM file, Meteorological Database, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, January 1, 1948 - September 30, 2014

Dates

Start Date
1948-01-01
End Date
2014-09-30

Citation

Bera, M., and Over, T. M., 2016, Meteorological Database, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, January 1, 1948 - September 30, 2014: U.S. Geological Survey data release, ​http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F7Q52MQG.

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 ARGN14.WDM 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 flags data 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, 2015. The primary source of the data is the Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois. [...]

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Purpose

This data series 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 will be available to public and other cooperators for the purpose of doing similar research.

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  • USGS Central Midwest Water Science Center

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Data is collected by Argonne National Laboratory and is available at the website (http://gonzalo.er.anl.gov/ANLMET/numeric/). These data are processed following the guidelines documented in the reports of Over and others (2010), and Bera (2014).

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