Hourly computed potential evapotranspiration in thousandths of an inch, 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
The text file "PET.txt" contains hourly potential evapotranspiration (PET) data, in thousandths of an inch, from January 1, 1948, to September 30, 2018. Daily 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, using the Fortran program LXPET (Murphy, 2005). The primary source of the data is Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne National Laboratory, 2018), and data processing followed the guidelines documented in Over and others (2010). References Cited: Argonne National Laboratory, 2018, Meteorological data, accessed on October 10, 2018, at http://www.atmos.anl.gov/ANLMET/. [...]
Summary
The text file "PET.txt" contains hourly potential evapotranspiration (PET) data, in thousandths of an inch, from January 1, 1948, to September 30, 2018. Daily 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, using the Fortran program LXPET (Murphy, 2005). The primary source of the data is Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne National Laboratory, 2018), and data processing followed the guidelines documented in Over and others (2010).
References Cited:
Argonne National Laboratory, 2018, Meteorological data, accessed on October 10, 2018, at http://www.atmos.anl.gov/ANLMET/.
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/.
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.
Data is collected by Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) (Argonne National Laboratory, 2018). The primary data for each year were downloaded from ANL and processed following the guidelines documented in Over and others (2010).
