Hourly wind speed in miles per hour and associated three-digit data-source flag, January 1, 1948 - September 30, 2020
Dates
Start Date
1948-01-01
End Date
2020-09-30
Publication Date
2021-05-07
Citation
Bera, M., 2021, Meteorological Database, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, January 1, 1948 - September 30, 2020: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9GP8COF.
Summary
The text file "Wind speed.txt" contains hourly wind speed data in miles per hour and associated data source flags from January 1, 1948, to September 30, 2020. The primary data for water year 2020 (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, 2020) and processed following the guidelines documented in Over and others (2010). The processed data were appended to ARGN19.WDM (Bera, 2020) and renamed as ARGN20.WDM. Missing and apparently erroneous data values were replaced with adjusted values from nearby weather stations used as “backup”. The hourly wind speed data from the Illinois [...]
Summary
The text file "Wind speed.txt" contains hourly wind speed data in miles per hour and associated data source flags from January 1, 1948, to September 30, 2020. The primary data for water year 2020 (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, 2020) and processed following the guidelines documented in Over and others (2010). The processed data were appended to ARGN19.WDM (Bera, 2020) and renamed as ARGN20.WDM. Missing and apparently erroneous data values were replaced with adjusted values from nearby weather stations used as “backup”. The hourly wind speed data from the Illinois Climate Network (Water and Atmospheric Resources Monitoring Program, 2020) station at St. Charles, Illinois, and the National Weather Service station at O'Hare International Airport were used as "backup". Midwestern Regional Climate Center (Midwestern Regional Climate Center, 2020) provided the data collected by National Weather Service from the station at O'Hare International Airport. 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, 2020, Meteorological data, accessed on November 17, 2020, at http://gonzalo.er.anl.gov/ANLMET/.
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.
Midwestern Regional Climate Center, 2019, Meteorological data, accessed on November 3, 2020, at https://mrcc.illinois.edu/CLIMATE/.
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, 2019. Illinois State Water Survey, 2204 Griffith Drive, Champaign, IL 61820-7495. Data accessed on November 9, 2020, at http://dx.doi.org/10.13012/J8MW2F2Q.
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/602d492cd34eb120311499d5.
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). The primary data for water year 2020 are downloaded from ANL (Argonne National Laboratory, 2020) and processed following the guidelines documented in Over and others (2010).
