Genovese, V. B., and V. Pauwels. 2001. BOREAS Follow-On MOD-01 Regional Daily Averaged Gridded Met[eorological] Data, 1994-1996. Data set. Available on-line [http://www.daac.ornl.gov] from Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A.
Valentijn Pauwels
Ghent University
Ghent, Belgium
Tel. + 32 - 9 - 264 61 37
Fax + 32 - 9 - 264 62 36
email: vpauwels@taoren.rug.ac.be
Variable
Abbreviation |
Variable Name | Units | Method of Summary |
---|---|---|---|
Ta | Air Temperature | degrees C | min/max/average |
Td | Dew Point Temperature | degrees C | average |
Ud | Wind Direction | degrees from
true North |
average |
U | Wind Speed | meters/sec | average |
Pres | Air Pressure | kPa | average |
Rsi | Incoming Shortwave Radiation | Watts/meter^2 | average of values > 0 |
Lwi | Incoming Longwave Radiation | Watts/meter^2 | average of values > 0 |
Precip | Precipitation | mm/day | total |
The daily average gridded data for each variable for a year have
been compressed in the following Zip files:
ta_94_avg_day.zip ta_95_avg_day.zip ta_96_avg_day.zip
ta_94_max_day.zip ta_95_max_day.zip ta_96_max_day.zip
ta_94_min_day.zip ta_95_min_day.zip ta_96_min_day.zip
ud_94_day.zip ud_95_day.zip ud_96_day.zip
u_94_day.zip u_95_day.zip u_96_day.zip
pres_94_day.zip pres_95_day.zip pres_96_day.zip
rsi_94_day.zip rsi_95_day.zip rsi_96_day.zip
lwi_94_day.zip lwi_95_day.zip lwi_96_day.zip
precip_94_day.zip precip_95_day.zip
precip_96_day.zip
Each Zip archive file contains 365(6) daily averaged gridded files. Each file name has the following structure:
yy-mm-dd_VariableAbbreviation_day.bin
where yy is the two-digit year, mm is the 2-digit month, dd is the 2-digit day, and VariableAbbreviation is the variable as listed in the preceding table. Day is the averaging period. Note the avg, max, and min variations for Air Temperature.
The data are stored as 4-byte binary float images, one image per day per variable (the data may need to be byte swapped to display correctly). The regional grid is 66 columns by 60 rows.
Genovese, V. B., and V. Pauwels. 2001. BOREAS Follow-On MOD-01 Regional Daily Averaged Gridded Met[eorological] Data, 1994-1996. Data set. Available on-line [http://www.daac.ornl.gov] from Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A.
Keywords:
ECMWF
Surface Pressure
Surface Temperature
Surface Flux
Precipitation
Albedo
Wind direction
Wind speed
Radiation
GOES Images